UFC 79 Nemesis this past weekend was an amazing MMA event with great hype of Chuck Liddell vs Wanderlei Silva for general MMA public and a real treat to MMA's more serious fans in a rubber match between two UFC's, and MMA's for that matter, welterweight greats Georges St. Pierre vs Matt Hughes.

At the end of round on during St. Pierre's total domination of Matt Hughes, St. Pierre passed Hughes guard to gain the mount position. Hughes employed a pretty standard defense from the bottom of a tight bodylock with both underhooks. There was only a minute left in the fight and I'm sure he was relatively safe there. Hundreds of fighters used the same defense with good rate of success. For the fighter on top, it is hard to land any meaningful strikes until the bodylock is broken up and usually when the top fighter tries to break up bodylock there are opportunities for a scramble or at least avoiding the damage.

Well, while Matt Hughes unsuspectingly hung on to St. Pierre to ride out a bad position till the end of the round, St. Pierre proceeded to debut a new stunningly effective slamming move on Matt Hughes's head. I've personally never seen this slamming from the mount before. Just look at the gif on the right! I'm sure it took Hughes warrior spirit right out and made him think of the living death (famous Ken Shamrock threat to Cheato Ortiz). Anyways....

In hindsight and in slow motion, it looks like Hughes could have certainly scrambled out of there if he let go and tried to underhook one of St. Pierre's legs and spun out of there.  I bet we'll be seeing this move and it's variations everywhere now. Thanks GSP! Man, Enson Enoue must be kicking himself right now when he had Frank Shamrock in the same positions for around 10 minutes. That's Frank Shamrock's favorite mount defense which he'll now have to rethink or hope his opponent didn't see this St. Pierre fight.

What do you think of it? Are there actual names for it?