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No, I'm not saying Dandois is a good striker, however... she at least displayed some (nonzero) level of offensive striking. Yet there has been so much criticism of her for looking bad on the feet and also Davis for not destroying her easily when there are plenty of strikers who show ZERO offensive grappling yet nobody criticizes them for that. So there is demand for a grappler to actually have GOOD offensive striking while no one ever demands for strikers to have ANY offensive grappling. Heck nobody treated Holly like a joke for looking clueless on the mat with Tate and actually getting finished there, while Dandois did not get finished or even dominantly outpointed on the feet and is being viewed as a joke.
The same applies for someone like Jake Shields who is considered a "bad" striker despite fighting so many dangerous strikers and not only being KOed only once (after his father just died no less) but actually WINNING some of those decisions against "good" strikers. Phil Davis is another who falls into the same category. So a grappler can actually WIN mostly standup fights against strikers but if they look bad/awkward doing it they will be considered poor, yet strikers' grappling will be considered serviceable if they are only able to defend TDs or get back up from them (while showing zero offensive grappling).
Massive double standards. If people demanded equal competence in grappling from strikers (compared to their demands for striking from grapplers), they'd be demanding that people like Wonderboy and GDR take opponents down and submit them which no one ever does. Stop being so biased against fighters whose striking is worse than their grappling instead of the other way around.
The same applies for someone like Jake Shields who is considered a "bad" striker despite fighting so many dangerous strikers and not only being KOed only once (after his father just died no less) but actually WINNING some of those decisions against "good" strikers. Phil Davis is another who falls into the same category. So a grappler can actually WIN mostly standup fights against strikers but if they look bad/awkward doing it they will be considered poor, yet strikers' grappling will be considered serviceable if they are only able to defend TDs or get back up from them (while showing zero offensive grappling).
Massive double standards. If people demanded equal competence in grappling from strikers (compared to their demands for striking from grapplers), they'd be demanding that people like Wonderboy and GDR take opponents down and submit them which no one ever does. Stop being so biased against fighters whose striking is worse than their grappling instead of the other way around.