Compilation of Alex Pereira's grappling in the UFC, is it as bad as people say and can big abe lincoln exploit it?

[Sean Chowdhury]

Tbf his BJJ is good. Not bb level even though he's a bb. (He got his bb after knocking out Hill) But it's serviceable.

What he sucks at is wrestling.

we haven't really seen him show good sweeps, get ups or reversals. He's good at wrist control and fighting the hands on chokes but I think he will be stuck under ankalaev if he gets taken down, he seems like a very stiff grappler in all of his rolling footage

 

[Bend NvR Break]

we haven't really seen him show good sweeps, get ups or reversals. He's good at wrist control and fighting the hands on chokes but I think he will be stuck under ankalaev if he gets taken down, he seems like a very stiff grappler in all of his rolling footage

I should've qualified my statement by saying his BJJ looks good when he's practicing BJJ. Not in a MMA fight.
You're 1000% right. When fighting and forced to grappler he is very stiff. Can't naturally do the movements.

Still his wrestling sucks.

 

[SuperAlly]

Going to get even more mileage out of this copy pasta till Saturday it seems.

Ankalaev Grappling Stats:

1 TD per fight on average, 30% TD accuracy
2/10 against Jan.
1/4 against mighty wrestler Volkan Oezdimir.
1/2 against post-exploded-knees Thiago Santos.
1/3 against Klidson Abreu (who???)
1/3 against Dalcha Lungiambula (literally who?)
Got taken down by Paul Craig twice, then submitted.


We absolutely DO know he is a worse offensive grappler than Jan as he has 0 subs, 0 sub attempts, and you can see his takedown stats above.

Jan has a td average of 1.09 per fight and is 20% more accurate with his shots going an even 50/50 overall.

Jan went to and split with Alex because one judge didn't watch the fight, as clear a 29-28 as it gets with Jan sucking air on the ground unable to get up afterwards. Less grandpa cardio, more elevation as it was affecting Alex too.

I wasn’t sold on Ank being some great wrestling threat he was being built up as, and the data seems to back up the gut feeling

 

[John makfresshi]

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[Thepaintbucket]

His take down defense seems solid enough. I guess my only concern is with how Izzy and Jan were able to get his back. Imagine if that was Khamzat lol. Does Alex have a comparable submission defense game like Usman?

 

[Ayreon]

I think that the discussion about the scenario where Ank will put all his effort in wrestlefuck is misleading

Ankalev showed that he can throw hands, and he will throw hands badly on Pereira more than we all think

He will surely use his wrestling but first of all we must reckon that he has all the tools to ko Poatan with his fists