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He has like 4 subs in 19 UFC fights. He's way more of a position guy than a sub guy.Surprised nobody has mentioned aljamain yet… I thought he was amazing submitting dudes before the whole DQ title fight thing kinda muddled my image of him.
World class jits and control, but there’s an awful lot of back control time there without being able to finish guysSurprised nobody has mentioned aljamain yet… I thought he was amazing submitting dudes before the whole DQ title fight thing kinda muddled my image of him.
Yes current mma fighters know how to negate most subs. The only one who I think has a top top mma sub game is Islam.Any UFC fighters who can pull of sick grappling moves in terms of throws, takedowns to elaborate submission moves?
I was watching old Karo fights and besides judo, he had sick submission game. Leg locks out of nowhere, throws to armbars and the most insane reversals. I feel like UFC fighters today are either strikers who can nullify the ground or wrestlers who can get top position to grind it out.
I do not see any crazy submission fighters anymore it seems.
Craig is s classic case of a pure BJJ guy who has pretty much nothing else than the subs threat, and we see that he gets smeshed on the regular. He‘s very slow both in movement and in reaction and has no TDs, so we see him butt flopp quite a lot. But indeed always a sub threat.Paul Craig is (was I guess) probably the best submission guy at 205.
I don't think that's really true. They like finishers, I don't think they have an issue signing grapplers who finish. They do avoid the Islam Mamedov, Sidney Outlaw, Danny Sabatello type who take people down and then don't do anything.
I've seen managers who work to get fighters with major orgs say it specifically about the UFC, and I tend to agree. I'm sure being a finisher does help your odds, though.
Who have they skipped who's actually a finisher though? The only example I can really think of it lazy king and they did offer there but Fernando never passed it on.