More a grappler in the Street Fighter sense—leaping on strange armbars in immediate movements—than a grappler in the systematic Demian Maia sense.
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Eddie, a mechanic, standing by a grappler, New York City, 2002.
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Nowhere was this clearer than in his highly anticipated grappler vs.
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Android 23 was immediately recognized for the devastating grappler he was.
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The grappler is a plunger that you can shoot at nearly any surface.
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The grappler is a blast to use and just as fun to watch.
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Like Jones, Zabit is an exciting grappler who is flourishing on the feet.
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The Giraffe Tomasz Narkuns is a grappler but not in the tedious sense.
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The Japanese grappler, who packs a punch too, was the aggressor throughout the fight.
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Could Lesnar use his incredible strength to bully a grappler as talented as Barnett?
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Hypothetical Gameplans It looks like striker versus grappler, just not in the classical sense.
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For the man touted as a brilliant young grappler this was not an impressive showing.
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Ruas was the other 'rounded' fighter of the day, being a competent kickboxer and grappler.
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The 36-year-old grappler is now 3-1 overall and 2-1 in the Octagon.
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An example of a grappler who uses the grapevines from closed guard excellently is Nathan Orchard.
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Though younger, grappler Ito has the MMA experience edge over K-1 fighter Saiga and that showed.
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Cannonier came in at short notice to fight Dave Branch, replacing Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza, a smothering grappler.
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A final lovely wrinkle from the grappler was a couple of uses of the switch forty-five.
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Maybe not against the best grappler in the world, but a lovely, flowing sequence of attacks nonetheless.
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Coupled with the constant risk of fall damage, learning how to use the grappler is tricky at first.
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In a fight perceived as 'striker versus grappler', time not spent out in the open hurts the striker.
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I think he's going to need that stamina too because this guy he's facing is a very good grappler.
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The grappler comes in stacks of 22, though if you shoot it and miss, it won't deplete your ammo.
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Punk still does not feel like an MMA grappler despite his training but he has comforted to the routine.
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He was also graceful in defeat, when a young grappler wearing jeans finished the armbar that Vitor Belfort couldn't.
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While both men are competent in each other's preferred position of fighting, this sounds like a classic grappler vs.
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Any decent grappler, when gripped at the wrist, punches off the grip and retracts their arm if at all possible.
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If a grappler cannot create opportunities to shoot on his opponent's hips, he won't be able to get them down.
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The grappler filed paperwork to seek Knox County's mayoral seat last month, targeting an election scheduled for May 85033, 2018.
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While Whittaker has never fought a grappler of Jacare's caliber, his takedown defence against other middleweights has been very encouraging.
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He utilized the same few attacks but in flowing chains which will catch the eye of even the modern grappler.
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When the legendary Japanese grappler Antonio Inoki got frustrated with an opponent and stomped him into unconsciousness, that was a shoot.
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But the difficulty Suzuki had with a much less skilled grappler purely because of his size foreshadowed what was to come.
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Nunes, however, is a much more confident grappler and would love to get on top of Tate and start hitting her.
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Buchecha was considered part of a 'new breed' of grappler, a heavyweight who utilized inversions like a much lighter guard player.
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Roger Gracie is not a pure wrestler but is perhaps the most accomplished grappler ever and a great example of this.
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Harrison versus Fabian is the classic style matchup of grappler against striker, and it is a battle Harrison's team is relishing.
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Despite the idea that it was heavy hitting grappler versus immovable kickboxer, Emelianenko battered Cro Cop through every area of the game.
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But while Almeida was considered the faster, flashier, turn-upside-down grappler, he also had fifteen pounds on Gracie come fight time.
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The Dagestani grappler raises few eyebrows with his technique on the feet, but once the clinch is secured Nurmagomedov is something remarkable.
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A one dimensional striker or grappler training at a top camp doesn't just get to go through the motions on their weaker aspects.
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The Back as an Invitation Exposing the back as a grappler can be a neat trick but let us first look at strikers.
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At the beginning of his career, he was more of a grappler, but now he brawls because he's made some bonuses doing that.
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Leites remains a talented grappler who largely relied on his ground game to earn the submission victory or to grind out a decision.
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In time, Henderson morphed from Olympic grappler to knockout artist with a right hand from hell, sort of like Chuck Liddell's better-groomed cousin.
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What saves Maia from being a one note grappler hopelessly failing on shot after shot is that he has options for initiating the grappling.
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As a grappler, Andrade came up on the losing end a few times at bantamweight but has looked powerful and competent at straw-weight.
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Moreira is almost exclusively a grappler and was matched against the hard hitting Alonzo Menifield, almost guaranteeing a finish one way or the other.
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A little unnatural grease goes a long way to making a grappler near impossible to grab a hold of, let alone submit or pin.
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Lateral movement and evasion has always been the most logical way to undo a strong grappler and force them to stay in striking range longer.
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It seemed to make sense that the strongest grappler at middleweight, who is also massive for the weightclass, could drag him down and maul him.
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Where the above methods are all an extra string to the bow, the upside down shot opens up a world of possibilities for the grappler.
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Grappler archetype characters are crowd pleasers by design because they have to work hard but are rewarded with oppressive offense and stylish grabs and throws.
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The finish came after a right front kick to right straight wobbled Ocampo, then Machida's signature inside hand trap to right straight decked the grappler.
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And at times, he's looked less like an expert grappler and more like a turtle flipped on its shell, incapacitated by pain that he'd never admit.
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Reis Out-Grapples Ortiz For Upset Win In advance of his undercard bout with Dustin Ortiz, flyweight grappler Wilson Reis was pegged as a sizable underdog.
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Lentz Clobbers Newcomer McBride Bout three saw lightweight grappler Nik Lentz take on the debuting Michael McBride, who replaced Mairbek Taisumov on just 212 days' notice.
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Another great fight sees Team Alpha Male product Cody Garbrandt take on gifted Brazilian grappler Augusto Mendes, in place for the dengue fever-suffering John Lineker.
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McGregor dived in on a takedown and Diaz, a considerably better grappler, sprawled before snatching up a guillotine and using it to force McGregor to his back.
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The grappler makes it hard to feel safe, though: if an enemy has it, they can easily launch themselves behind whatever you've built and at top-speeds, too.
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Footage circulating right now tends to show off quick kills landing on unsuspecting enemies who don't know how to deal with the incredible mobility that the grappler affords.
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Rothwell entered 2016 on an impressive four fight streak, which was highlighted by a knockout of the venomous striker Overeem, and a submission of decorated grappler Josh Barnett.
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Silva didn't want to engage the dangerous grappler, or risk having his legs caught, so he kicked very low and with linear strikes and Maia had no answer.
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If you could point to any historic weaknesses in the career of Pettis, it would be his susceptibility in not being able to handle a high-energy grappler.
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Over the course of this bout's three rounds, the crafty grappler completed five of five attempted takedowns, which he used to amass a whopping 8:43 of control time.
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Reis is a great grappler, has a decent record, but probably didn't deserve a title shot when the UFC booked him in to challenge Johnson in July of 2016.
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The bout is going to be fought at a catchweight of 198 pounds but Narkun is bigger than Khalidov, younger than Khalidov, and is a wicked grappler to boot.
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He's a swashbuckling freelancer in a pro wrestling world which still has a sense of romance about the drifting grappler jetting from city to city and ring to ring.
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"I'm going to Rio thinking of the gold and nothing else," said the grappler, currently training in Lucknow with Rio-bound compatriots Sakshi Malik (58kg) and Babita Kumari (53kg).
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All while in against a guy who is not only leagues ahead of him as a grappler, but who is also at a very different point in his career.
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This time around, the towering grappler will take on Destanie Yarbrough, a former semi-pro football player who made her MMA debut with a 33-second KO back in April.
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Far from a slouch on his back, Rua had swept the world class grappler, Ricardo Arona with an omaplata in the course of winning the 2005 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix.
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Hall is an accomplished, world-renowned grappler as showcased on his season of TUF which saw him defeat two opponents via heel hook from the 50-50 guard he innovated.
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Hermansson retained his middleweight title against Brazilian grappler Alan Carlos with another third-round knockout following a prolonged beating hid behind one of the best jabs in the middleweight division.
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The fringes of the UFC heavyweight top-15 is occupied by young prospect Luis Henrique, mustachioed wrestler Timothy Johnson, Polish grappler Daniel Omielanczuk and rangy former Bellator champ Alexander Volkov.
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For a powerful puncher and confident grappler, however, the risk of a positional change can be worth it to land some real, pure, power strikes provided he stays on top.
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In the other, we had German-Polish grappler Peter Sobotta, who was representing the far-off Caribbean nation of Jamaica so that he wouldn't have to choose between Germany and Poland.
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While she's nowhere near the grappler that Rousey is, she is still solid in that department, which could make it difficult for Rousey to get to work with her renowned judo.
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The former Strikeforce champion has claimed three submission wins in his six UFC outings, and even forced a tap from another savvy grappler, Gegard Mousasi, in their rematch in September 2014.
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McGregor is probably the lesser grappler, but he had been tired out and badly hurt by Diaz's boxing and transitioned into the grappling phase of the bout in a wobbly panic.
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Where Vassell has previously been a very formulaic grappler—takedown, mount, back and rear naked choke if they give it—this fight showed off some more interesting techniques from top position.
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Previously when a grappler could not get a takedown he was stuck, unless he was able to pull guard or half guard which isn't a particularly sound strategy in the modern era.
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In effective wrist control, which is difficult enough to achieve, a grappler is creating a bracelet on the opponent and the opponent's hand—being wider than their wrist—cannot slide out as easily.
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He was a grappler, just like all of those men coming to own the MMA landscape but unlike his fellow wrestlers Severn and Shamrock, and later Coleman, Kerr and Randleman, Frye could box.
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On the opponent's back where they have zero effective means of attacking you, spare the odd attempt at some kind of straight armlock which will rarely, if ever, work on an experienced grappler.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Greco-Roman wrestling took on some Cuban flair on Monday, as Mijain Lopez won his third consecutive Olympic gold, equaling the record set by Russia's legendary grappler Aleksandr Karelin.
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Pantazi's seventh volume, Kyusho Jitsu Grappling Methods is one of that strange batch of DVDs that assumes the opponent knows how to grapple but in a way which no experienced grappler would ever teach.
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Having built up years of experience as an expert grappler, she'll have to defend herself against powerful Muay Thai kicks and punches when she competes in the One Championships — her first professional MMA competition.
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Here's a neat one handed neck crank / guillotine which Suzuki did achieve though: Certainly Minoru Suzuki was more an excellent wrestler with a few slick submissions than a well-rounded grappler with excellent wrestling.
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Tomorrow's update will also see the introduction of the Grappler, a wild new weapon that functions a lot like a hook shot — except, since this is Fortnite, you grab onto surfaces using a plunger.
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He's an excellent banger and creative with his right hands, but he can't check a kick, lacks cardio, hasn't looked like a serious grappler in over a decade and eats far too many punches.
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Any of de Blasio's absurdly far-left proposals, like subsidized housing for illegal immigrants, or his blatant fibbing on fossil fuels, could lead him straight into the full nelson of a more skilled grappler.
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Rousey was once a fantastic judo practitioner and I can relate to that as a grappler myself, but I knew I was never going to become an accomplished striker after so long in the wrestling world.
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Perhaps it was the revised rule set that gave Schultz, a decorated grappler, an edge over the striking-centric Goodridge, but just hours before the fight, the Olympian still needed clarification on what was and wasn't allowed.
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Dariush, a brilliant grappler who learned to strike confidently and aggressively under Rafael Cordeiro, was surprised right from the start as Hernandez worked the crowd for cheap heat, kicking Dariush in the ribs off the glove touch.
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Eddie Bravo still likes it though: And that is the overwhelming theme with the classics of professional wrestling, there is a legitimate hold there it would just be exceptionally difficult to apply on a knowledgeable and experienced grappler.
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After Jones tweeted that he was looking for an opponent for the next Submission Underground event, it's as if a great door had been thrown open and every grappler with a name felt free to come rushing in.
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Additionally where a grappler might have to keep shooting takedowns, making himself more and more susceptible to a timed counter knee, the upside down shot can be used to keep the fighter's head away from his opponent's rear knee.
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The gut munching knees (which become head crushing knees if the opponent is shooting for his hips at the time) are not such a high risk – low reward strategy for a grappler and anti wrestler as skilled as Aldo.
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The great thing about Narkun—being not only a bigger man, but the best bigger man available in KSW and a top tier grappler—is that he might be the man to make Khalidov fight a little more cautiously.
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Kitaoka has been around the Japanese circuit so long and appeared to be such a one dimensional grappler that it is easy to forget that he has plenty of experience under fire and can be savvy when he needs to be.
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Though his post-fight announcement that he'd like to show Dong Hyun Kim and Demian Maia "who a real grappler is" was undoubtedly premature, the American is now a respectable 9-1 overall, and a 13-1 in the UFC.
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Moraes is a very competent grappler and top player, but Arce wound up defending his head by repeatedly performing a small half-granby to bring his hips back in front of Moraes, putting himself on his shoulders in the process.
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Danis is without a doubt the most prolific and celebrated grappler McGregor has ever prepared for a fight with, so it will certainly be interesting to see if the New Yorker can bolster his ground game sufficiently ahead of the clash.
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No doubt Jones is a formidable grappler but take away his ridiculous long punches and cruel stabbing kicks to the knee, strip him of his spinning elbow attacks and his fearsome ground-and-pound and suddenly he's just another man.
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At intermission, Riddle—sweaty, shirtless, still in spandex—mans a folding table in the lobby next to a beefy, buzzcutted Viennese grappler named Walter (The two will slap each other around at the Evolve Wrestling show a few hours later).
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Similar to the great grappler, Braulio Estima, McGeary shoots his best reverse triangles from an intermediary position with a knee shield in and a leg over the face, or a knee shield in front of the shoulder and a shin across the opponent's belly.
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Certainly if you took Suzuki's game into a grappling or MMA bout in 2016 you would leave a lot of holes to be exploited, but I doubt there is a grappler today who couldn't learn a trick or two from the old Japanese catch wrestler.
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It is quite common in mixed martial arts for a grappler to suddenly start knocking opponents out and be touted as a much improved striker, but the secret is usually that they have learned the value of getting on offense and staying on offense.
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We have all seen a fight where the grappler will prove hopeless in getting his opponent to the mat, get exhausted and beaten up on the feet, and then repeatedly flop to guard and hope his opponent is stupid enough to jump on him.
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He seems equally happy doing any of these things and it serves to make him a far more dangerous proposition as a 'one dimensional grappler' than the scores of great wrestlers who have entered MMA but who can only shoot from a mile away.
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In the 'featured prelim' we see the return of one great bantamweight prospect, Aljamain Sterling against the stalwart grappler, Bryan Caraway, but in the main event we see a meeting of two unchecked hype trains as the undefeated Cody Garbrandt meets the also undefeated Thomas Almeida.
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But while Trump might not be a martial artist, a striker or a grappler, he is definitely a "martialist," someone who understands the Way (always with a capital W) of the warrior and applied much of the principles and philosophy of the Way to his own business and political career.
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Given Zahabi's ability to produce some of the best rounded fighters in MMA almost from scratch, it is fun to think of what he could do when made head coach of a grappler with such tremendous finishing ability and accomplishments already under his belt at just twenty-five years old.
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Furthermore, a scrap between Barboza, arguably the best striker at lightweight, and Nurmagomedov, arguably the division's best grappler, would represent an incredible style clash that harks back to the halcyon days of MMA, when pure strikers duked it out with hard-nosed grapplers under the fluorescent lights of rec center basements.
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Aoki was able to hit the hammerlock against a competent grappler in the same way that Brazilian jiu jitsu legend, Mario Sperry used to—gaining control of his opponent's arm while still in their guard and when they were still actively using it rather than being concerned with keeping it tight to their body.
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Even in the modern UFC 'striker versus grappler' is still a compelling match up, despite training daily with top tier Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners, Khabib Nurmagomedov can get people talking about 'sambo versus jiu jitsu', and of course fictional news about Conor McGregor versus Floyd Mayweather makes the headlines in publications that should know better every couple of weeks.
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All very wide, spacious movements when you look at them through the lens of modern grappling but neat techniques nonetheless and combinations which could be tightened up by a modern day grappler for use against opponents who understand how to move their hips and constantly be shrimping and bridging to take advantage of any space given to them.
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The decision for Bellator to grant Brooks a release from his contract with the promotion raised many an eyebrow back in May 2016, but the thought of Brooks duking it out among the UFC's most talent-rich division was an exciting prospect—aided by some big-name Brooks wins over the likes of Michael Chandler (twice) and Polish grappler Marcin Held.
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To be a proud and fearless brawler, a self-proclaimed warrior of the old school, the man who took Robbie Lawler and Johny Hendricks five full rounds back to back in what amounted to one 50-minute fistfight, reduced to playing defensive jiu-jitsu for 15 minutes against arguably the greatest grappler in MMA history must have taken something out of his soul.
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It was certainly fun to see both men trying new things on the feet—it is easy to see how Donald Cerrone's mauling of Miller's body has added a new weapon to Miller's arsenal for instance—and the back-and-forth groundwork as Lauzon advanced to mount and Miller immediately began escaping back again reminded us of the calibre of grappler that both men are.
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