Striker submitting a grappler and a grappler KOing a striker?

Not UFC but that random japanese dude sleeping Joe Schilling
 
Randleman and Gonzaga KOing poor Cro Cop.... what's cool is at least CrpCop avenged both of those losses.

Gsp submitting Hughes

Anderson submitting Hendo?

Lutter KOing Eastman

Diaz KOing Lawler
nobody cared about the rematch with gonzaga
 
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Gorgeous
 
I was thinking about the unpredictable aspect of MMA, and examples of a fighter primarily being a grappler koing a striker (they're all multidimensional now, but some still have an unbalance in their skillset, with one very strong aspect that compensates the weakness etc. wrestlers are in between as I do not consider all of them as submission artists if they favor GnP)
sometimes it is done in a crafty way, as an overhand following a faked takedown, but can even happen in a regular striking exchange I guess

the fights I tought about are Mir vs Crocop, Gonzaga against poor Crocop again, Werdum against Hunt maybe, alltought Werdum is quite complete in his skillset

Do you guys have any other examples in mind?

and then I wondered about the opposite, a striker submitting a grappler, which intuitively seems much less likely to me, maybe only if the grappler if half koed already or gassing bad.

I thought about hughes almeida, forrest shogun, but hughes is a wrestler, if not a submission artist, and shogun was gassed so it doesn't exactly fit what I'm looking for.
Does anyone have a fight in mind that would be a good example?


so far for Striker subbing Grappler :

anderson vs hendo
cro cop randleman 2
rothwell barnett
pettis henderson

grappler koing striker:

crocop randleman 1
crocop gonzaga
mir crocop
werdum hunt
they are all mixed martial artists at the end of the day. Even black belts get submitted by lower ranks from time to time. Given the vast amount of mixed martial arts fights to date, it's not surprising that we've had some surprises.
 
Kevin burns submitting roan carniero
Mackens semerzier submitting wagny fabiano

Both guys with below average ground games tapping accomplished black belts
 
they are all mixed martial artists at the end of the day. Even black belts get submitted by lower ranks from time to time. Given the vast amount of mixed martial arts fights to date, it's not surprising that we've had some surprises.
You’re not wrong, and nobody is arguing that, but it’s still a lot of fun to discuss and think about. Your reaction makes me wonder which of these answers rustled your jimmies
 
Dozens examples of grapplers submitting strikers but very few examples of strikers submitting grapplers.

Only ones I can think of: Silva triangling Lutter. Pettis submitting Oliveira.
 
Crocop vs Randleman 2
Crocop vs Randleman 1
 
That's why not a single 5'8 guy on the entire planet has the balls or the ability to fight at 206+ lbs in 2018 and be a ranked UFC HW.
You made sure to put enough specifics in there to avoid an avalanche of pics.
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