Wrestlers > strikers at ww now

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Usman
Colby
Askren
Tyron

Till
Wonderboy
Robbie
Gamebred

I feel like any of the wrestlers would beat any of these strikers.
 
Pretty crazy how much the WW division has evolved compared to 10 years ago
 
Wow. WW has always been top heavy with wrestling. You even follow this shit?
 
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Pretty much only WW is currently dominated by wrestlers atm.
Shows how well rounded MMA is becoming at the top tiers
 
Wow. WW has always been top heavy with wrestling. You even follow this shit?
Robbie Hendricks condit and Rory were all great wrestlers??? OK johnny you can say yeah but the other three? And they were the top guys for 3 years.
 
How things have changed since Hughes, Fitch, Hendricks, Kos
 
Rory is a decent wrestler. It is serviceable. He took it to the ground against pure strikers. I think once of his first few fights was Che Mills? He just beat him up on the ground.
 
Yeah... of course it wasn't when Hughes was at the top... and St Pierre + Fitch...
 
Too bad we can’t go back the glory days when strikers like gsp and Matt Hughes ruled over all of the welterweights
 
Robbie Hendricks condit and Rory were all great wrestlers??? OK johnny you can say yeah but the other three? And they were the top guys for 3 years.
Historically, the division has always been run primarily by wrestlers..........Militich, Hughes, Sherk, GSP, Woodley........now you've got guys like Usman, Covington and Askren. Although Johnny liked his hands, he was a Div 1 wrestler and showed it plenty of times. Sure there have been some strikers show flashes and even win the strap but if you look at all around, it's been the most wrestler heavy and wrestler dominated divisions since the start of the UFC.
 
What I think WW has always lacked is well rounded elite strikers and grapplers, not helped by it being such a UFC centric division.
 
WW has almost always been dominated by wrestlers. We can probably thank Matt Hughes for that
 
GSP was not a wrestler.

He was a kyokushin karate black belt and BJJ fighter. His wrestling was a skillset picked up for mma. The only aspect of wrestling he really used was a fantastically timed double leg. Everything else could be attributed to his various other skillsets and fight IQ.

The "GSP=wrestler" myth is one if the most perpetuated myths on sherdog.
 
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