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I'd love to see actual statistics on this. I would imagine strikers have been doing better than wrestlers lately.
Maybe, as far as all the fights go. Probably because there's much more strikers than wrestlers out there. But, as far as champs go, Stipe, Cormier, (Jones), Woodley, Khabib, Dillashaw, are all wrestlers or have wrestling background. Granted, especially Dillashaw barely uses it anymore. And Mighty Mouse is a pretty good wrestler too, he's just too small to use his skills on pretty much anyone. That basically leaves Holloway and Whitaker as the only striker champs at the moment. And I guess Conor, I don't know if you can count him anymore, though.
Whitaker has good TDD, but being smallish for the division might make him weak against a guy like Weidman. I still think he beats Romero again. Holloway is yet to face a top wrestler. Too bad the Frankie fight fell through. And too bad Frankie lost to Ortega, too, so we might not even get to see that fight, at least not for a while. But I also think Ortega might give Max a lot of trouble too.