Best "ragdolling" perfomance ever? Merab, Khabib, Jones, Chimaev, other?

[wisdom blows]

Yeah, I came here to say this.
To me, there was very limited ragdolling in that fight.

The entire first round was domination

 

[Ser das Trevas]

 

[Ser das Trevas]

 

[dipstickjimmy]

How about Chael vs Anderson 1. Complete ragdolling until he fell into the triangle choke at the last minute.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Which fighter had single best MMA grappling perfomance by "ragdolling" other fighter? Level of opposition obviously matters!

Some examples:

Chimaev vs Usman, Robert
Merab vs Cejudo, Yan
Jones vs DC 1, Glover, Bader, Sonnen, Rampage
Khabib vs RDA, Dustin
Usman vs Woodley
Cain vs JDS 2,3
Islam vs Oliveira
GSP vs Hadry, Fitch, Hughes
DC vs Barnett, Hendo

DC v Barnett came to mind first, both because of Barnett's grappling skill and size, that was unbelievable

 

[wh4tttt]

Galore bofando and Charlie ward.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Anyone who was able to pull off a German suplex in a fight should be considered.

Lol fucking insane how some of these guys "Little Brothered" their opponents.

Rory MacDonald and Jonny Bones first came to mind, and @SuperNerd mentioned Rustam Khabilov who I totally forgot about.

A couple of my fav subs were Matt Hughes bulldog choke over Ricardo Almeida, and Demian Maia's strangling of Rick Story.

Fucking beautiful violence.


Great thread TS!!

 

[Trabaho]

Which fighter had single best MMA grappling perfomance by "ragdolling" other fighter? Level of opposition obviously matters!

Some examples:

Chimaev vs Usman, Robert
Merab vs Cejudo, Yan
Jones vs DC 1, Glover, Bader, Sonnen, Rampage
Khabib vs RDA, Dustin
Usman vs Woodley
Cain vs JDS 2,3
Islam vs Oliveira
GSP vs Hadry, Fitch, Hughes
DC vs Barnett, Hendo

I don't think Jones wreslted Glover or ragdolled DC at all. Also wasn't the Rampage fight more stand up. The Bader fight also was short and not a lot of takedowns.

Cain JDS was pure striking ?

 

[Trabaho]

I would nominate Jacare vs Mousasi 2 and Kenedy vs Lawler. They grappled their will to fight out of them.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

 

[pclanadmin2]

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That's like a running back jumping over both teams' lines into the end zone -- but without a helmet. No wonder he seemed like he didn't know what city he was in, or what Belal's name was, for the rest of the fight.

 

[marvinparsons]

Which fighter had single best MMA grappling perfomance by "ragdolling" other fighter? Level of opposition obviously matters!

Some examples:

Chimaev vs Usman, Robert
Merab vs Cejudo, Yan
Jones vs DC 1, Glover, Bader, Sonnen, Rampage
Khabib vs RDA, Dustin
Usman vs Woodley
Cain vs JDS 2,3
Islam vs Oliveira
GSP vs Hadry, Fitch, Hughes
DC vs Barnett, Hendo

Based off my fuzzy ass memory my vote goes to DC vs. Barnett. DC was way smaller and tossed Josh, a good wrestler, multiple times. And seemed way stronger.

Jones mostly ragdolled smaller guys. Islam and Kabib are strong as shit, but I feel like their technique came first so not necessarily "raggdolling." More like methodical mauling.

Chimaev is ridiculous, but Rob/Usman are smaller.

Cain mostly outcardioed/struck JDS.

Also Tim Boetsch should be on here if talking about one fight.

 

[thecoldbloodedone]

Daniel Cormier throwing Dan Henderson around was astonishing, from bell to bell just mauled him the whole fight.

 

[Aluminati]

I went deep for this one. Travis Fulton vs Jeremy Bullock. Textbook ragdolling.

 

[mmasask]

D.C vs hendo