It’s a typical American Wrestler stubbornness, they think striking is what they have to improve on to be successful, No. Work on your grappling and Submission skills, that’s why these fighters from the Caucasus are dominating, they improved on their base, not stray away. Makhachev strayed and got Koed, went back to his base & improved on it and is dominating.
It isn’t rocket science, fighters like Couture, Ortiz, Penn’s, Hughes, St Pierre’s figured this 20years ago.
These American Wrestlwrs focus too much positions, the Usmans, Covingtons etc.
Look at Sean Brady, watching him fight brings Nostalgia to me, he’s currently one of the only american ground based fighters who is excelling in using wrestling for his submission gameZ