Kalindra Faria beat Carina Damm with an armbar, but it appears Damm didn’t like having the submission held for as long as it was. Check out this video wherein Damm punches Faria after the stoppage. The fun begins at the 2:00 mark of the video.

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Pay attention, Sonnen: Gilbert Durinho teaches how to fend off Jon Jones’ elbows. Photo: GRACIEMAG.

If you were Chael Sonnen, what would you do to keep Jon Jones’s elbows at bay?

The best thing to do, of course, would be to not end up underneath him. That’s no easy task. Another would be to avoid irritating the light heavyweight champion during shooting of season 17 of The Ultimate Fighter reality show, the final of which will take place April 27, probably in New Jersey, USA. But we doubt Sonnen will take that route.

So the solution is to tune in to the advice of Gilbert “Durinho” Burns, who helped train Vitor Belfort for his own encounter with Jones. To Durinho the trick is to meld Jiu-Jitsu with boxing.

That’s right, the leg guard of Jiu-Jitsu and the hand behind the head of boxing.

“Fighters these days insist on grabbing the wrist of the opponent on top doing ground and pound. That’s just what he wants, since all he has to do is twist and the elbow goes in crisp,” says Durinho.

“I’d rather climb my guard up and try clinching him behind the head. If he escapes, I protect myself with the hand behind the neck, like in boxing, until I can get a knee in and distance him or try an armbar…” he teaches, with the help of training partner Jhon Menezes in a training session filmed at Vitor Belfort’s Rio de Janeiro gym.

Did you find the 2011 lightweight world champion’s tip helpful? Let us know in the comments field below.

Thai boxing champion Vitor Miranda showed he’s got Jiu-Jitsu too, catching Elton Monstro by the neck. Mestre do Combate publicity photo.

Mestre do Combate, a fledgling MMA promotion headed by Rickson Gracie, was held for the first time, last night at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s Vivo Rio arena. And the biggest star of the event was Jiu-Jitsu—with the outcome of six of the eight fights determined on the ground.

In the main event of the evening, Vitor Miranda, a Thai boxing specialist from Team Nogueira, took on Elton Monstro. Vitor’s experience shone through, as he landed solid kicks and punches while pushing the pace the entire truncated duration of the fight.

Ultimately, he ended up teaching a lesson in Jiu-Jitsu: at minute 1:05 Vitor catches hold of Elton and trips him down. At minute 2:21 Vitor transitions from knee-on-belly to mount and wraps up with an arm-and-neck choke.

Watch and learn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8F1UZxzhU

Ronda Rousey gives Sarah Kaufman’s arm a tug last Saturday at the Strikeforce event in San Diego. Photo: Strikeforce publicity.

Last Saturday, Strikeforce champion Ronda Rousey again stunned the crowd with an indefensible armbar, this time over Sarah Kaufman.

For two of Ronda’s training partners, black belts Eddie Bravo and Alan Belcher, one of the finest aspects of the move was the streamlined transition to armbar when the mounted opponent gave up her back.

“There are guys who are really good at defending the back … When you’re on someone’s back they have their hands and their chin to defend with,” says Bravo, explaining why he prefers being positioned sideways in what he calls the “spider web”, the armbar setup Ronda Rousey went to rather than sinking hooks for back control.

Watch Bravo and Belcher revealing the ins and outs of Rousey’s stellar finish.