Fights wherein the worse fighter won by stalling?

[Mcnugget]

what’s the best example of this? Or even a fighter being petrified of standing and just grappling his opponent to stay safe

 

[rollthedice]

That mario bitch that hugged Aldo recently

 

[Bend NvR Break]

Merab vs Aldo
Alvarez vs Pettis

 

[markys00]

Randy couture won a ton of fights like that

 

[BluntForceTrama]

Merab

Against Umar. With all the lame showboating especially at the end

 

[humdizzle]

Per Google AI:

Merab Dvalishvili was accused of stalling during his fight with Jose Aldo, but he ultimately won by unanimous decision

Explanation

• Dvalishvili was unsuccessful in all 16 of his takedown attempts against Aldo.
  
  
• Some say that Dvalishvili stalled during the fight, similar to how Mario Bautista stalled during his fight with Aldo.
  
  
• Dvalishvili outpointed Aldo in the fight, draining Aldo's energy and causing him to slow down.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

what’s the best example of this? Or even a fighter being petrified of standing and just grappling his opponent to stay safe

I remember that in TUF 4 finale between Serra and Lytle, Matt spent a lot of time stalling Lytle against the cage and stomped Lytle's feet before Usman made it cool

Another funny one was Aoki vs the cross dressing cosplay kickboxer Nagashima in a mixed rule exhibition fight. In the kickboxing round Aoki acted like a jackass and avoided fighting at all times. Then in the MMA round, Nagashima sent Aoki to the shadow realm as Aoki was going for a takedown

 

[Necrocrawler]

Literally any of Bruno Santos wins
Not hating the guy, but his fighting style was similar to a point based bjj fighter

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[joy2day]

Ricco tried that against Big Nog but the rules of Pride disallowed it.

Pride > UFC

 

[EndlessCritic]

Mara Borella vs Taila Santos.

 

[Local Plata]

Clay Guida's entire career.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Merab

Against Umar. With all the lame showboating especially at the end

7 of 30 takedowns landed, 260 significant strikes thrown, neckbeards outwrestled and BTFO

Merab does the opposite of stall, the guy is always moving. Jailton Almeida vs Derrick Lewis is an example of someone pure stalling.

 

[Natural Order]

Based on your second question of "petrified of standing", I'll throw out Werdum for his shameless performance against Ubereem in Strikeforce.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Another funny one was Aoki vs the cross dressing cosplay kickboxer Nagashima in a mixed rule exhibition fight. In the kickboxing round Aoki acted like a jackass and avoided fighting at all times. Then in the MMA round, Nagashima sent Aoki to the shadow realm as Aoki was going for a takedown

Man it'll never get old watching Aoki slammed into the stratosphere. He's the fighter I most love to hate on as I think he truly is one of the best grapplers in the sports history, but he makes himself so unlikeable you just want to root against him. The hammerlock arm break will go down in history.

 

[Objectively Correct]

Any Merab win

 

[Hymen Crusher]

Like mentioned above Bautista aldo. If you think merab is stalling then I don't know what to tell you.

 

[HeffDoesWant]

Mohammed Usman vs Junior Tafa.

Horrible scoring, Horrible reffing and far and away the stand out example of winning a fight by stalling.

Usman officially landed 7 sig strikes but i sure didn't see that many.
12min control with no damage done.

Stats | UFC

 

[evergreenrider]

Every Jon Fitch fight

 

[Streeter]

Merab hugged Aldo ENtire fight. As did Bautista . Aldo has greatest TDD that's ever been seen so that's the reason but still both fights were a wall n Stall hugsthon

 

[Thesnake101]

Dollaway vs Mayhem Miller.