Blackshear (16-7-1 MMA, 4-3-1 UFC) put on another solid octagon performance Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas when he survived an early striking storm from Gibson (21-11 MMA, 3-6 UFC) in the bantamweight bout before getting the fight to the mat and getting the tap with a kimura submission at the 4:09 mark of Round 2.

Blackshear weathered an early storm from Cody Gibson and secured a second-round submission victory via kimura at UFC Vegas 104.

Blackshear might be best known for landing one of the few Twister submissions in UFC history, but he was also coming off a Performance of the Night victory over Cody Stamann when he took on another Cody,