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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
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
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