My only counter point to that would be that he would have to make it to the finals. I agree that adcc finals matches greatly favor wrestlers but getting past the murderer's row of submission grapplers to get to the finals is the difficult part. We've had very good MMA grapplers like Ben Askren, Chris Weidman, Jon Fitch, Hecor Lombard, Ben Henderson, and lots of others not even make the semis. Jake Shields made the semis one year but just lost in the first match last year against a guy nobody really knew.
I guess my take away is that in theory I think there are a lot of good MMA fighters with a wrestling base that could try a Rustam Chsiev strategy but most of them either don't try it or if they do it doesn't work for them. It doesn't even always work for Rustam. He's taken out some medalists over the years like Lovato Jr and Orlando Sanchez but I don't think he's ever gotten on the podium himself.
Adcc is also not too bad with the stalling calls. Way better than ibjjf. Leandro Lo almost got DQ'd for stalling against Gordon Ryan in their superfight. He was out of stalling cards and the next stall call would've seen him lose the match. So leading up to the finals if someone just sat down Colby would be forced to engage their guard and the refs are pretty good about stalling calls during the ground fighting portion of the matches. Coby would be 77kg. You also gotta think he'd be matched up against a high seed guy like Lepri, JT, Vagner, Ramos, Durinho, Tonon, or someone like that. That's just 6 names but I'd favor all them to beat Colby.
