Top 5 wrestlers in the UFC 2017

Define wrestler? Who has the most dominant takedown, control and top position games in the UFC?

1. Khabib
2. Maia
3. Frankie
4. Cormier
5. Jon Jones

Or are we asking who's the best "pure wrestler" as in Freestyle wrestling?

1. Yoel Romero
2. Henry Cejudo
3. Bilyal Makhov
4. Daniel Cormier
5. Sara McMann
 
HuskySamoan said:
Define wrestler? Who has the most dominant takedown, control and top position games in the UFC?

1. Khabib
2. Maia
3. Frankie
4. Cormier
5. Jon Jones

Or are we asking who's the best "pure wrestler" as in Freestyle wrestling?

1. Yoel Romero
2. Henry Cejudo
3. Bilyal Makhov
4. Daniel Cormier
5. Sara McMann
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Bilyal flaked out
 
Bill Laimbeer said:
Bilyal flaked out
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He's still technically "in the UFC" but I don't think he flaked out, there's elite wrestlers out there like Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (27 years old, Asian Games gold, World Bronze, Olympics 2016 4th palce) who's 6-0 in MMA but makes more money wrestling than MMA promotions are willing to pay him...You gotta pay these kinds of athletes what they're worth from the start, think of it like an investment. Even Abdulrashid Sadulaev (best freestyle wrestler in the world right now, Olympic and World Gold ) is 21 years old and wants to cross over to MMA at some point but he's not going to do it for 10k/10k.

Similar with Kickboxing, guys like Robin Van Roosmalen makes 40-80k a fight, has sponsors, fights regularly 4-5 times a year...He's 2-0 in MMA, 27 years old, multiple weight class champion and a Judo black belt. You can't sign this guy to the UFC for 20k/20k....It also makes a lot more sense to invest in Roosmalen than a 0-1 33 year old Gokhan Saki...UFC doesn't know how to build their divisions and grow talent though.
 
HuskySamoan said:
He's still technically "in the UFC" but I don't think he flaked out, there's elite wrestlers out there like Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (27 years old, Asian Games gold, World Bronze, Olympics 2016 4th palce) who's 6-0 in MMA but makes more money wrestling than MMA promotions are willing to pay him...You gotta pay these kinds of athletes what they're worth from the start, think of it like an investment. Even Abdulrashid Sadulaev (best freestyle wrestler in the world right now, Olympic and World Gold ) is 21 years old and wants to cross over to MMA at some point but he's not going to do it for 10k/10k.

Similar with Kickboxing, guys like Robin Van Roosmalen makes 40-80k a fight, has sponsors, fights regularly 4-5 times a year...He's 2-0 in MMA, 27 years old, multiple weight class champion and a Judo black belt. You can't sign this guy to the UFC for 20k/20k....It also makes a lot more sense to invest in Roosmalen than a 0-1 33 year old Gokhan Saki...UFC doesn't know how to build their divisions and grow talent though.
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He will never fight in the UFC.
 
Cain hasn't competed in 2017 so he can't be "best wrestler in 2017"

1) Cormier
2) Khabib
3) Woodley
4) Edgar
5) Ferguson
 
I feel like this is the only acceptable time to say cm punk
 
seeing a lot of cormier comments without mentioning jon jones who schooled him in the wrestling department...
 
Not in order:

Cormier
Khabib
Edgar
Romero
Cain
 
Only morons can say Romero has bad MMA wrestling.Fucking hate noobs who don't watch his fights and than talk BS.Guy takes down everyone and not many can get him down(only if tired like Jacare in third).Weidman wasn't taking him down since Romero got right back up.Learn wrestling for fucks sake.
After him comes Cormier,Jones,Khabib and maybe Mendes.
 
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