I was looking back at that fight again just recently and man...that was an impressive escape...right at 2:02 and this isn't the type of **** you'd expect from a guy of Hunt's size [yt]AJeoGsYL17M[/yt]
Hunts ground game in this fight appears to be so much better then in other fights. He escapes to early Fedor armbar attemps and even passes into side control at 2:23 he does a good job around 3:15 at controlling Fedors hip and not allowing him to slide the leg underneath to get back to half guard or guard. He was also fairly close to finishing with that Kimura later on. No knock on him for getting submitted with Fedors Kimura because he did a great job at blocking off Hunts other arm so the dude really had no shot at that point.
Yea, I read his interview a while ago where he said that he was putting a lot of pressure on the arm but didn't want to break it and then Mark Hunt escaped when he hesitated. Dunno how true it is but it did look like he had it in deep.
Hunt had that fight. Had he worked that isolated arm some more, he would have shredded Fedor's shoulder. Fedor may not have tapped, but the fight would have had to be stopped.
That wasn't a Kumura. Was a Key lock, notice the hand is facing the cieling and the rotation is counter clockwise, versus the Kimura which is a clockwise rotation on the left shoulder. It was close. All hunt had to do was keep fedors arm closer, and lower than Fedors shoulder so he couldn't extend his arm out of the submission. It was very close.