Best Anti-Wrestlers

[Elysianwing]

Anti-wrestlers should just go back to watching WWE.

Amiriteguise?

 

[Moneymma]

Aldo




Machida

 

[VolkHan]

Aldo sure
Ronda and Calderwood beated some good wrestlers in their respective divisions

 

[aali14]

Definitely Aldo, hard to takedown and hard to keep down

 

[FountOfWisdom]

People mention a wrestler like Jones but won't say GSP who had no wrestling background ?

If we include former fighters its GSP hands down. He beat several of the most sucessfull MMA wrestlers (Hughes, Fitch, Kos, Trigg, Sherk).

 

[M Raid K]

No love for Mirko CroCop? He was the original "sprawl & brawl" style fighter. Coleman could not take him down in his prime and Coleman just wrecked everybody with his smothering wrestling back then (even Fedor... before the armbars came).

 

[SirDiddymus]

GSP. 0 wrestling backround, grapplefucked many a good wrestler.

 

[frandie2b]

Aldo is wrestler's worst nightmare.

 

[bloodyknuck]

machida, aldo, Pettis when he Tkos khabib.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

To take things another direction what about sub fighters? Maia most obviously has beaten loads of wrestlers.

What people overlook is that being a good wrestler is NOT the same as being able to avoid the ground whilst hurting an opponent standing. A wrestler is used to countering aggressive takedown attempts with his own takedowns, obviously he can't do that if his aim is to avoid the ground altogether.

 

[tkotom]

Lombard.

Like trying to take an atlas stone down.

 

[Monkey Pride]

JDS. Except when fighting Cain.

 

[TriangleKing]

You do know that Jones was a Junio College National Champion Wrestler, right???

Lawler also started out as a youth wrestler...

 

[TriangleKing]

Weidman most certainly is a wresler

 

[ShakatheG]

Chuck was pretty decent

He was but this was a sweet td by rampage. I miss this rampage

 

[Estudante]

Demian Maia

 

[McDouble]

Gsp - first guy to really beat wrestlers at a time when wrestlingg dominance was at it's highest

Pettis - uses submissions and striking to counter wrestling. Very high level finishes

Aldo- really brilliant take down defense and can't be held down very long at all

And ofcourse the older generation chuck machida etc

 

[cyrusthevyrus]

Aldo

 

[Necrocrawler]

Brad tavares is good.

 

[SherdogGoat]

Aldo and Barao should be up there as well but people have completely discredited him after one loss