Yeah, Hector Sandoval rattled himself a bit with these guillotine-escape slams

NASHVILLE – Yeah, that guillotine was tight on Hector Sandoval, and yeah, the UFC Fight Night 108 winner gave himself a bit of a jolt when he slammed head first into the canvas to escape it.

In Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 108 curtain-jerker at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Sandoval (14-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC) emerged victorious in a wild one-round fight with fellow flyweight Matt Schnell (9-4 MMA, 0-2 UFC), which streamed on UFC Fight Pass.

After trading fists in the high-paced affair, Schnell slapped on a deep guillotine while securing a tight body lock. Sandoval looked stuck, but as he said he did early in his career, he opted to slam his way free. It took two efforts – and he was a bit dazed – but he finally got it done (via Twitter):

“I actually did that in my second professional fight,” Sandoval said of his escape. “Some guy had me in a guillotine – a similar thing that just happened. He had me in a guillotine, and I slammed him, and he still had me, and I slammed him again. So I was really familiar with that.”

So, how tight was it?

“Man – that (expletive) was deep,” he said.

The feats didn’t stop there, though. Sandoval, who’s now 2-0 since a July 2016 submission loss to recent title challenger Wilson Reis, then ended the fight with some heavy hammerfists. Schnell was dazed by the first couple punches, and he was out soon after. Sandoval, who said he worked on the hammerfists throughout his camp at Team Alpha Male, pulled his punches and waited for the ref to stop the fight.

“I saw him sleeping and just stopped,” he said. “I did notice he was sleeping.”

Did he worry that his coaches might chide him for pulling his punches and stopping the assault?

“Nah, I’ve got family and stuff, and I’m sure he’s got family,” he said. “I’ve got kids. I don’t look at it that way. I feel bad for the guy I knocked him out. But this is part of the fight life we live.”

For more from Sandoval, including potential next opponents and his thoughts on champ Demetrious Johnson, check out the video above.

And for more on UFC Fight Night 108, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.