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Abus Magomedov’s guillotine is changing the terms of his middleweight fights
A second straight first-round submission gives bettors a concrete counter-wrestling mechanism to track, but Magomedov’s nine-fight archive still argues against treating every matchup as an automatic early finish.
Abus Magomedov did not need to initiate the decisive grappling exchange at UFC 333. Cameron Rowston did it for him.
MMA Fighting reported that Rowston reached for a single leg before Magomedov immediately attacked the neck, rendered him unconscious and secured the stoppage 1:44 into the opening round—his second consecutive guillotine submission. The sequence matters beyond another win on Magomedov’s record. It showed opponents now face a specific cost when they try to change levels against him: an entry that appears to offer relief from the striking can become the opening for his most immediate finishing weapon.
Magomedov, 36, is now 30-7-1 overall and has won five of his past six. He remains No. 12 at middleweight as of Oct. 24. There is no next booking in the database, so the actionable betting conclusion is conditional rather than opponent-specific. His future method-of-victory, round and distance markets must account for a guillotine that can operate as a counter, not merely as the final step of an offensive wrestling sequence.
The market result
Awaiting venue settlementFocus contractAbus Magomedov
| PolymarketRELATED MARKET · RULES NOT VERIFIED | |
|---|---|
| First observed | Not observed |
| At publication | Not observed |
| Pre-event | No observed pre-event price |
| Final trade | — |
| Settlement | Awaiting settlement |
| Move (first → pre-event) | — |
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