What happened to all the NCAA level wrestlers?

[JustOnce]

At WW, it used to be like Kos, Fitch, Hughes, Trigg, Sherk, Shields, Hendricks, Ellenberger, Story, Woodley.

And even without wrestling background, we had good grapplers like Rory, Dong, Maia.

If you look at WW now, I mean it's barren outside duo of Covington and Usman.

I can see Khamzat just running through everyone to the top. I mean for fuck's sake, Chiesa is ranked number 6 at welterweight. I mean what in the fuck?

What happened? What happened to all the high level wrestlers?

 

[Fraz]

They all ran to Pro wrestling once the dagestanis came

 

[Daelh]

They're at Bellator since UFC barely sign wrestlers anymore to feed the just bleed audience.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

U Fight Cheap prefers strikers, even if you wrestle, you better be striking LoL

 

[Me&MrJones]

This is MMA not NCAA in a octagon/cage.

 

[Benoitthegr8]

They got punched in the face and dieded

 

[NickDiaz]

...

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I forget who's D1 and who's not in the US system but most of the American WW collegiate wrestlers are in Bellator as they have Logan Storley, Joey Davis, Kyle Crutchmer and Romero Cotton over there.

 

[Ogata]

Colby said they don't want wrestlers unless you tall shit. He said if he won the would still be released and he went and called Brazilians animals.

 

[TheChance]

title IX is slowly strangling college wrestling, the dearth of young wrestlers in MMA is a side effect

 

[JustOnce]

I forget who's D1 and who's not in the US system but most of the American WW collegiate wrestlers are in Bellator as they have Logan Storley, Joey Davis, Kyle Crutchmer and Romero Cotton over there.

yeah Storley is legit. I bet he could make Khamzat look average. Not sure if he would win

 

[JustOnce]

title IX is slowly strangling college wrestling, the dearth of young wrestlers in MMA is a side effect

what's that

 

[HavokHarmon]

title IX is slowly strangling college wrestling, the dearth of young wrestlers in MMA is a side effect

Yeah I think people don’t realize how much different the college wrestling scene is now than it was 20 years ago.

 

[JustOnce]

Colby said they don't want wrestlers unless you tall shit. He said if he won the would still be released and he went and called Brazilians animals.

oh Hi Joe

Imagine if Joe Riggs knew how to defend a simple single leg, then maybe he wouldn't have got destroyed against Hughes.

Just a random thought

but yeah that sucks
I bet Colby is a good guy underneath

Not sure about Jorge

 

[RoyJonesJr]

Dana stopped hiring them when he wanted to protect one of his latest asset, the Caucus grapplers

That oil money hits different

 

[Hellowhosthat]

yeah Storley is legit. I bet he could make Khamzat look average. Not sure if he would win

Khamzat would more than likely utterly demolish Logan.

 

[Fesaine]

Are there any good 170 ncaa wrestlers to sign?

Bellator has some of them but most of them are incredibly underwhelming.

 

[JustOnce]

Khamzat would more than likely utterly demolish Logan.

hm it could happen but I see Amosov s Khamzat a competitive fight.

I think Logan can keep it competitive. I think Amosov can beat Khamzat

 

[TriangleMonkey]

wmma contender in 6mo training…..

 

[Hellowhosthat]

hm it could happen but I see Amosov s Khamzat a competitive fight.

I think Logan can keep it competitive. I think Amosov can beat Khamzat

Amosov gets mauled too, I don't think either of them can take him down and they both get blasted on the feet. The problem wrestlers are going to have with Khamzat is that he has the ideal base for sprawl and brawl. Great wrestling base and ridiculous power.

Ikram Aliskerov is a very high level MW grappler who's easily UFC level and Khamzat just murdered him on the feet instead.