Belal 'No Days Off' Muhammad should bench himself in the next main card if he doesn't…

You really wanna sit here and act like the guillotine's some fragile plaything that only works on Grandmas doing aerobics? Three times against wrestling rats doesn't make Belal a "one trick wonder"—it makes those gym rats lucky they had elbows to tuck and five more subs to scramble.

why you guys keep crying about the guillotine like it's got a fault 😤💪 we saw him put fuckin PARKS to sleep with that move, and they ain't some slouch neither—man's got fights in ALL the major orgs!! three times last season against some bumwrestler who tucks chin? call him a gym rat all you want, but Belal still walked out that cage with his hand raised EVERY OTHER TIME 🙌 gonna bench YOURSELF next card? nah mate, he's one of the scariest 155's on the card when that guillotine pops, trust the process!! 🔥

Left the gym late last night, saw some kid on the mats still drilling guillotines off every grip possible—kid’s got the same tunnel vision Belal walks in with. Thing is, that tunnel vision’s cost him more than a few taps in sparring; last season’s tape shows three fights where the arm-in guillotine just wouldn’t snap because the chin stayed buried under the shoulder. Three times in a single campaign is a pattern, not a fluke, and patterns don’t care if the guy tapping is Tyson Parks or some scrub who double-majored in folkstyle and cardio. Belal’s best weapon turns into a party trick when the chin’s stuck to a chest like Gorilla glue. Parks? Knocked him out cold first, so he never even felt the guillotine squeeze—pure talent. But in those three scrapes, the opponents weren’t just wrestling rats with chin-callouses; they were the kind who drill chin tucks for a whole camp, exactly the scenario Belal should walk in knowing how to crack. Jiu-jitsu’s chess, and right now Belal’s playing four-square when the board needs more squares.

that chin tuck’s been around since the early cage days when some old school bjj nutters used to make half the gym tap just by headbanging into your side and whispering “chin down, always”. back in my day if you didn’t drill that shoulder shield against every single arm-in guillotine they threw at you, you’d get embarrassed in front of the whole squad and someone would nick your protein shake right off the bench.

man, if Belal doesn’t sort a second move pronto, he’s gonna be stuck doing the same promo loop while some gym owner’s kid in Ohio adds another belt to his collection 😂 Guess what? Two seasons ago at UFC Chicago, Paul Felder was chatting about how every high-school wrestler now teaches the head-up chin-tuck before they even learn to sprawl—that’s the crowd Belal’s chasing, mate.

park’s KO made that guillotine irrelevant right? he battered him so hard the dude never even saw the move 😂 three times last season he folded to wrestlers who STILL tap to flying neck cranks now every berlin boy scout knows the counter 🤦‍♂️ belal’s stalling—next card he should bench the guillotine line-up and just wrestle for 3x3 why not

man, tom, you’re sitting there like some youtube comment section guy explaining mma with memes instead of fight IQ. park’s knockout is impressive, sure, but that don’t mean the guillotine magically vanishes off the map just ‘cause it didn’t finish that night. the whole point is finishing rate—belal taps more people with that thing than most 155ers ever dream of doing with any move, and three scrapes where it didn’t click? that’s the cost of walking into every war with a hammer instead of a toolbox. in ‘22 at welterweight, he had six guillotines or neck cranks in total—six!—and four actually finished inside distance. you really wanna swap a 66 percent finish rate on your best weapon for some three-round wrestling exhibition just ‘cause a couple gym bros got smart with their chins? remember in dallas back in may when he almost snagged another one against some olympic wrestler who spent the whole first round trying to posture up before belal slipped it clean and forced a tap? that’s the same exact setup every time—opponent stands tall, belal sneaks in low, boom. those three times last season? each one was a different counter but the story stayed the same: chins glued to chests like cement blocks. solution isn’t “bench the move,” it’s “master another one for when plan a fails.” old timers used to say you need three finishes in your pocket: a choke, a ground-and-pound set-up, and at least one slick joint lock. belal’s got the choke down cold; maybe time to dust off the darce he used back at strikeforce days, or start sneaking in a kimura from side control like that jordan wright fight in 2019 where he cranked it halfway through the second. either way, sitting around waiting for the guillotine to work when the counters are becoming folklore? nah, keep the hammer, just build a second story to the house.

Talking about chin-tucking counters always makes me think of how Colby Covington walked into the cage against Burns in 2022 with his coach screaming "chin down, hands high" in his ear every second of the pre-fight huddle. Half the gym laughs when they see Belal on the mats still drilling that arm-in guillotine from closed guard, same tunnel vision he walks out there with. Thing is, his own teammates at Roufusport keep telling me he starts every roll with the same grip—one hand deep on the neck, the other buried in the collar like it’s a light switch you flick and call it a night. Three times last season the tape doesn’t lie: opponents stood tall, elbows glued to their sides, and suddenly Belal’s no longer choking a neck, he’s trying to lift a boulder off his chest. Parks got rocked before the guillotine even mattered; the other three fights it was the same script—they spent the whole first round tucking chins like paratroopers on D-day and walked out with verdicts in hand. If the gym rats are doing it, the pros will do it bigger and louder next card—Belal’s got three fights to add a second act or watch the move become a footnote in his highlight reel.

Ever since I pulled an all-nighter in 2018 rolling guillotines for cash bets at Roufusport, I’ve known Belal lives or dies by that grip — the exact one where you thread your forearm like it’s a bolt cutter and pray the chin caves. But three times last season the tape stops showing "Belal hunting" and starts showing "Belal guessing," and that’s the part that sticks in my throat. Tom, you’re not wrong when you say Park’s left hook made the guillotine irrelevant that night; I was ringside in Vegas with my mate who coaches Muay Thai, and we both clocked the same thing — Parks lifted Belal clean off his feet before the choke even formed. That’s a rare physical mismatch, though. The other three? Different weight classes, same story: chins welded to chests, arms tucked like textbook sprawl counters, and Belal pivoting from “finisher” to “motivational speech in his own head.” ZoeUltra nailed the percentage — six guillotines or neck cranks, four finished — but she skips the micro-details that kill finishers. You ever drill arm-in guillotines until your forearm screams, then roll with a Marine who spent four years on base where chin tucks were part of morning PT? I have; at Quantico last year I rolled with a 175-lb light-heavy who kept taping his jaw to his sternum before every session because he’d seen Belal’s finishes on YouTube. Three months later he showed up to a regional and guillotined half his bracket. The pattern isn’t “chins are tough,” it’s “the counter became reflex.” Belal’s strength is singular focus, but focus without adaptability is a straightjacket. What I’d love to see him add isn’t some flash kimura from side control (though the Jordan Wright tap-out still gives me chills), it’s a high-elbow darce off back control — a move he actually pulled in 2017 Strikeforce when he made Danny Davis give up in the first. That darce set up tight enough to force a posture crunch, which is exactly what the chin-tucking crowd is forcing out of Belal’s guillotine now. Keep the hammer, sure, but pack a screwdriver in the toolbox when the nail refuses to bend.

man, Zoe’s got the finish rate nailed down right—66 percent is elite stuff, no question—but three scrapes last season where it flatlined while gym rats were doing push-ups with their chins taped on like it’s some MMA PT routine? that’s the real kicker. picture this: Belal walks into Roufusport at 7 AM, rolls until his forearms scream, then some kid fresh off a wrestling camp in Ohio drops that shoulder shield like it’s the nuclear option. next thing you know, Belal’s shaking his head at the judges again while the kid’s crying into his protein shake because he tapped out in round one. we all love the hammer, but when the hammer keeps bouncing off the anvil, you don’t smash it harder—you grab a wrench. and tom, you’re not wrong about Park’s left hook—brutal shot, no argument there—but come on, the other three weren’t mismatches by weight, they were mismatches by chin. the tape doesn’t lie: Belal’s still drilling that same arm-in grip like it’s 2018, same tunnel vision he walks out there with. three times last season the opponent stood tall, elbows glued, and suddenly Belal’s not choking a neck—he’s bench-pressing a fridge. the crowd loves the guillotine because it finishes, but when it stops finishing, the crowd starts laughing. so here’s the real question: how many more "gym rat" belts get added to some Ohio kid’s shelf before Belal adds a second gear in that toolbox? or are we just gonna keep pretending the guillotine’s magic forever? 🤡

Listen, the guillotine is Belal’s hammer—there’s no denying that—it’s how he drags opponents into submission time and again, and four finishes out of six isn’t just lucky, it’s brutal execution. But three times last season it evaporated in the face of gym-rigorous chin tacts and textbook sprawl counters, and that’s the part that sticks: opponents aren’t guessing anymore, they’re rehearsed. Park’s knockout was a mismatch nobody can dispute, but the other three? Different weight classes, same drill: elbows glued, chins glued, and Belal walking out with a judges’ nod instead of a tap. Zoe’s finish-rate math is solid, and the Jordan Wright kimura from 2019 still flashes like a sharp blade—classic Belal set-up, armbar from side control when the primary weapon stalls. And BackOurBoys_TillIDie’s Roufusport nights aren’t nostalgia; they’re evidence—drilling the same arm-in grip until the forearm screams won’t scare off a Marine who tapes his jaw before PT. You’ve seen the tape: once that chin gets bolted to the chest, the guillotine becomes an arm-wrestling contest, not a choke. So yeah, Belal’s toolbox can’t stay a one-tool shed forever. A high-elbow darce off back control, like he cooked up against Danny Davis in Strikeforce back in ’17, would give those chin-lock artists something new to tape their jaws for. Build the second story, sure—keep the hammer—but don’t let the anvil teach the hammer a lesson. The question isn’t whether the guillotine’s finished; it’s how long we keep pretending it’s magic before we hand Belal a screwdriver instead of another nail to swing at the wall.