A Potential hurdle... Russian-Dagestani / Eastern European takeover

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

I dunno Chimaev is out there wreckin fools with dat Swedish rasslin

Why don‘t people understand that Chimaev was already a chechen wrestler when he arrived in Sweden.

 

[usernamee]

Why don‘t people understand that Chimaev was already a chechen wrestler when he arrived in Sweden.

Yeah that was my joke but maybe you're saying people as in other people and I'm now misunderstanding you instead

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Why don‘t people understand that Chimaev was already a chechen wrestler when he arrived in Sweden.

Mokaev is the weird one because he learned to wrestle when he was already in England.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Yeah that was my joke but maybe you're saying people as in other people and I'm now misunderstanding you instead

Actually I made a mistake. Ilia moved back to Georgia between 8 and 14 where he did Greco and kyokushin.

 

[Noraaq]

TBF though I find it misleading to call Topuria Georgian as he has never trained in Gerorgia and doesn‘t use wrestling or judo, the 2 disciplines where Georgia is known.

As far as I know, he developed his wrestling roots in Georgia, and then built upon it with BJJ that he learned in Spain.

He has the ability to wrestle when the need arises, look at the fight vs Herbert. If he didn’t have a wrestling base to instinctively TD Herbert, he would have likely been KOd.

But yea, I agree most of his success should be attributed to his coaching in Spain.