Dricus being around +200 is insane too much

[KO Shotz]

What is unorthodox about him?

 

[ExitLUPin]

• Brunson was nowhere near close to finishing those choke attempts.
• Dricus got up from the first takedown from brunson pretty damn easily.
• The round ended with Brunson looking for a choke that he wasn't close to getting. The more concerning part of that sequence was that brunson stunned dricus with a left hand, and that's the only reason he got that position at the end of the round in the first place. That's more indicative of ddp's striking deficiencies than his grappling deficiencies, in my opinion.
• Holland had a full camp drilling wrestling for Brunson.
• Holland had no camp drilling wrestling for Khamzat
• Holland was bragging for months about how he wasn't wrestling anymore before taking the khamzat fight on a day or two notice
• Khamzat came in 7.5lbs heavy for that holland fight.

Not saying DDP will win, but if I remember correctly, you evaluated Volk's grappling negatively through this same myopic lens before his fight with Islam -- You hyper focused on the fact that he got taken down by lesser opponents, but completely stopped your analysis of the grappling after the takedown and neglected to mention how he wrestled back up easily each time. It's much the same with your read on DDP. He will give up takedowns, but he's very good at wrestling back up and using submission attempts to create space to get back up.

Whether he's good enough to keep chimaev off of him remains to be seen.

Well I was wrong about Volk against Islam but was right here. Dricus couldn't get up at all. Khamzat got crucifix what 3 times? I don't know if that's ever happened before. Dricus only success was surviving.

 

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Well I was wrong about Volk against Islam but was right here. Dricus couldn't get up at all. Khamzat got crucifix what 3 times? I don't know if that's ever happened before. Dricus only success was surviving.

That was horrible TDD for sure lol. I expected at least average TDD, but the guy barely sprawled. Big eye opener for him and his camp I hope. He just turned 31, hopefully he works the wrestling like a mad man and can come back from this. Despite getting soundly outgrappled, the guy still showed very rare mental strength in there and never broke. I think/hope he comes back better.