Suleyman Suleymanov Drops Guillotine on Nursultan Toktorov at ONE Friday Fights 45

Suleyman Suleymanov threaded the needle with picture-perfect technique.

The unbeaten Dobrynya export made a successful One Championship debut, as he put away Nursultan Toktorov with a guillotine choke in the second round of their ONE Friday Fights 45 lightweight showcase on Friday at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. Suleymanov (10-0, 1-0 ONE) coaxed the tapout 12 seconds into Round 2.

Toktorov (4-1, 0-1 ONE) acquitted himself well in the first round, where he battered his counterpart with kicks to the lower leg. Twice Suleymanov was swept off his feet. The 30-year-old Azerbaijan native was unshaken. Toktorov moved on an ill-advised takedown attempt at the start of the middle stanza, wandered into Suleymanov’s waiting arms and found himself hopelessly entangled in the guillotine. Surrender was his only option.

Suleymanov has finished five of his 10 wins, four of them via submission.

Further down the card, undefeated Kak’s Fight Club prospect Ismail Khan outgrappled Rabindra Dhant to a unanimous decision in a three-round flyweight attraction. All three members of the ringside judiciary submitted scorecards for the 24-year-old Khan (7-0, 2-0 ONE).

Dhant (5-1, 1-1 ONE) achieved full mount in the first and second rounds, but moments of meaningful offense proved difficult to scrape together. Khan executed multiple takedowns, flexed his superiority in the scrambles and deployed an active submission game that saw him threaten with a rear-naked choke, an arm-triangle choke and an armbar. Standup exchanges largely resulted in stalemates.

Khan has now gone the distance twice as a pro.

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