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Media Chris Curtis claims Roman Kopylov embedded spies in his camp

El Panteron said:
I'd guess they were trying to understand if/how Curtis would implement wrestling. Kopylov's grappling is shit.
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I think this is an overstated take. Kopylov getting outgrappled by Fluffy doesn't mean his grappling is shit, it just puts him in the same company as numerous other Middleweights. He actually looked good in the opening stages of that fight: stuffing takedowns, hurting Anthony to the body, etc. Hernandez just so happens to be a very solid offensive grappler who excels at putting the grind on his opponents and he was able to weather the storm and drown Roman. No shame in that.

The only other basis by which to accuse Roman of having bad grappling is from very early in his UFC career, when he got subbed by Roberson and held down for a while in Round 2 against Duraev. It's worth noting that he actually stuffed 8 of Duraev's 9 TD attempts, survived his submission attacks, and took him down late. Furthermore, he has significantly improved his grappling since then and spent some time in Dagestan as I recall. Following the Duraev fight, everyone tried to exploit the perceived gap in his grappling defense. Yet Di Chirico, Soriano, Ribeiro, and Fremd attempted a combined 13 takedowns against him... and failed on all of them. Not to mention offensive wrestling was a cornerstone of Roman's gameplan against Almeida.

Meanwhile, it's not like Curtis is some paragon of grappling himself. Imavov was tossing him around with ease and Allen seemed to be capable of getting him down when he wanted, even after he gassed. Dude also has never attempted a single takedown under the UFC banner.

If anyone takes down the other in this fight, I think it's going to be Kopylov taking down Curtis.
 
Safton said:
I think this is an overstated take. Kopylov getting outgrappled by Fluffy doesn't mean his grappling is shit, it just puts him in the same company as numerous other Middleweights. He actually looked good in the opening stages of that fight: stuffing takedowns, hurting Anthony to the body, etc. Hernandez just so happens to be a very solid offensive grappler who excels at putting the grind on his opponents and he was able to weather the storm and drown Roman. No shame in that.

The only other basis by which to accuse Roman of having bad grappling is from very early in his UFC career, when he got subbed by Roberson and held down for a while in Round 2 against Duraev. It's worth noting that he actually stuffed 8 of Duraev's 9 TD attempts, survived his submission attacks, and took him down late. Furthermore, he has significantly improved his grappling since then and spent some time in Dagestan as I recall. Following the Duraev fight, everyone tried to exploit the perceived gap in his grappling defense. Yet Di Chirico, Soriano, Ribeiro, and Fremd attempted a combined 13 takedowns against him... and failed on all of them. Not to mention offensive wrestling was a cornerstone of Roman's gameplan against Almeida.

Meanwhile, it's not like Curtis is some paragon of grappling himself. Imavov was tossing him around with ease and Allen seemed to be capable of getting him down when he wanted, even after he gassed. Dude also has never attempted a single takedown under the UFC banner.

If anyone takes down the other in this fight, I think it's going to be Kopylov taking down Curtis.
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Great write up.

However, if for some odd reason Curtis lands his first ever takedown on Kopylov, I'm calling you Copeylov from now on because I just thought of it.
 
How much does he get paid to send two spies from Russia to Vegas?
 
One of the Russian guys was Kopylov with a mustache

Curtis probably had him sleep on his couch and everything
 
Sean Chowdhury said:
lol what is the purpose of putting spies in chris curtis' camp? Curtis is the most basic fighter, he does the same thing every fight, overhand left and struggles with people who use lateral movement, it's not like he has some secret move😂
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LOL exactly.

Curtis is a complete moron. He is a notch above Tito and Diego Sanchez in intelligence.. not much more.

Is she still angry with Strickland?
 
Next time, invite the spies into the training session and begin paying touch-butt the whole damn time


That’ll teach them to spy LoL
 
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