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Josh should have cacc his ass
its amazing how fedor is. Russia gets a bad rap. And has in sport . poisoning of people. EtcRussians need to step up and send better Sambo team next time
Looking forward to catching the replay for sure.
Can’t make heads or fucking tales out of their scoreboards/rankings though, fucks sake
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It was definitely a strategy on the part of Gracie and his team to stall out against Barnett, unfortunately for the viewing audience.Fun event but Barnett only got 4 mins to push Gracie around...
Would have been more interesting if Barnett started out vs Krauss instead.
Just finished watching, very fun event. It managed to capture a feeling that other submission grappling leagues are missing, with the exception of a certain BJJ family offspring, everyone was looking to finish the matches instead of simply surviving.
A few thoughts:
- they either need to add another minute or 2 to the time limit for the size disadvantaged bouts or pause the clock when the competitors go out of bounds or are being reset. Gracie's shenanigans against Barnett were garbage and he just simply tried to run out the clock.
- The athleticism is long gone but Sakuraba still has some fight left in him as long as he's not being punched in the head. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve and seemed to be enjoying himself
- love that they went with a traditional wrestling mat instead of some weird square platform or octagon rip off
- Tokoro with an early sub of the year candidate with that rolling armbar, amazing subs all event too
- Hopefully if they do a Sambo team again they find better guys. Japan and Russia especially could field much more talented grappling teams than the Lithuanian team.
- I finally discovered 2017 Rookie champion Captain Africa's name through this. Turns out he was a talented judoka prior to MMA as Shutaro Debana, taking 3rd place at the 2004 All Japan Tournament. Very interesting prospect and he had some nice armbar attempts against Sakuraba.
- It did very solid numbers for a submission grappling event, hopefully this keeps up and QUINTET can become a regularly occurring event
SPOILER
Professional grapplers are better than non-professional grapples.
It was fun anyways.