A guillotine-grip front headlock finished by sitting beside your opponent and throwing your legs over their head and back — your bodyweight hangs the choke on their neck.
Submission · Strangle (blood choke) · Gi & No-gi · Difficulty 4/5 · Usually learned at Purple belt
Starts from Front Headlock as the attacker (on the head) → ends the match (submission).
The details that make it work
Deep arm-in guillotine grip first; the legs are the finish, not the entry.
Sit to your hip beside them and swing your top leg over the head, bottom leg over the back.
Extend your hips slowly — the leverage is enormous and arrives suddenly.
Where it goes wrong
Sitting too far away so the leg lands on the shoulders and they simply posture out.
How opponents counter it
Posture up before the seated fall
Pull the head free as the attacker sits to their hip
Is the Peruvian Necktie legal in competition?
Legal in all major rulesets at all levels (IBJJF, ADCC, sub-only). Rules change — always confirm against the current official rulebook for your event.
History & naming
Created by Tony DeSouza, the Peruvian-American UFC veteran, in the early 2000s.