*Maia Vs Covington = Good wrestling > Top notch BJJ?*

or just a young guy that beat up an old guy
 
Covington's TDD > Maia's TD is the only thing you can determine about their grappling from that match.
 
Old vs young, American vs Brazilian , fucks given vs experience? There were many variables in that fight.
 
Give Maia a boomerang and that fight is a whole different story.
 
More like top notch wrestling > top notch BJJ

Colby's a hell of a rassler.
 
BJJ guys typically don't have the wrestling to take down wrestlers. There are exceptions obviously.
 
Thesnake101 said:
But he used his defensive wrestling during the whole fight.
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To defend Maia's single-legs, a traditional wrestling take-down. BJJ only really starts once you get to the ground so it doesn't really make sense to say Colby's wrestling beat Maia's bjj. His defensive wrestling beat Maia's offensive wrestling. I guess you could argue Maia used bjj when he tried pull guard but that shits hard as hell with no gi's or rash guards.
 
Alves vs Covington
Average BJJ >>> Top notch wrestling
 
A good wrestler with striking is obviously the worst match up for a BJJ player. That being said that wasn't the only variable in the Maia Covington fight.
 
There was next to no grappling in that fight. Cody, like Tyrun avoided going to the ground with Maia like the plague. That's how elite Maia's ground game is. If Cody (or Tyrun) went to the ground with him, and pulled a Shields, then we could talk.
 
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