Von Flue Choke

Neck8 Finishes · 0.5% of All Submissions

Total Finishes

Share of All Subs

0.5%

Most by One Fighter

Peak Year

2017

Year by Year

6 Years with a Finish

Statistical overview

The 15th most used submission in the UFC

Every figure below covers complete years only, from 2006 through 2025. The current year is left out until it is finished, because a part-season is both a smaller sample and a lopsided one — this section rewrites itself each January.

8finishes

0.5%of all 1,644 submissions

#15of 39 distinct submissions

2017peak year, 3 finishes

How’s it trending?

−100%running quiet

Across the last 1,000 men’s fights the von flue choke finished 0 against 1.0 its earlier rate predicts — 0.00 per 100 fights against 0.10 before. It sits below our threshold for calling a trend shift, though. On 0 finishes in a window this size, a run like this turns up often enough by chance that we will not call the underlying rate changed — a genuine move and a good spell look the same until more fights land. Worth watching rather than worth re-planning a camp around.

And over the long run

0.5%of submissions2006–2020

0.4%of submissionslast five years, 2021–2025

The von flue choke first appears in 2006. That looks like a gap, but on 448 it is well inside what chance alone would produce. Treat the two as the same. Over five years it is holding roughly the share it always had.

That looks like a gap, but on 448 it is well inside what chance alone would produce. Treat the two as the same.

0.4% against 0.5% · 2 of 448 · 95% range −0.8 to 0.7 points

95% range −100% to 383% · 2024-06-28 to 2026-09-19, men’s divisions. Measured as the rate at which the von flue choke ends a fight, not its share of submissions — share moves whenever the overall submission rate moves.

When does the finish come?

50.0%Round 1

37.5%Round 2

12.5%Round 3

0.0%Round 4

0.0%Round 5

von flue choke every other submission

50.0% of these finishes come in the first round, against 51.1% for every other submission. That looks like a gap, but on 8 it is well inside what chance alone would produce. Treat the two as the same. Within the round itself the median comes at 1:40 against 2:53 — 73 seconds earlier.

Does weightclass matter?

Welterweight and middleweight0.2%1 of 488

Featherweight and lightweight0.2%1 of 446

Light heavyweight and heavyweight2.1%5 of 240

Flyweight and bantamweight0.0%0 of 235

Women's divisions0.6%1 of 168

The von flue choke is at its weakest in flyweight and bantamweight at 0.0%, 0.6 points below the rest of the sport, interval −1.0 to −0.2.

The men’s and women’s divisions

Across the women’s divisions the von flue choke accounts for 0.6% of submissions — 1 of 168 — against 0.5% everywhere else. That looks like a gap, but on 168 it is well inside what chance alone would produce. Treat the two as the same. That said, the women’s sample is 168 submissions in total, so it moves on a handful of fights in a way the men’s does not.