Gane's coach talks about leg lock attempt.

[ifindgifsforjackslack]

I saw him moving his base to pass. It's done poorly on both sides, because both guys suck. The way I see it, if Gane really was going for the leg lock, he would continue as he got swept, but there was a period of Francis in half guard, Gane digging for the leg and then going for the leg lock. Too much time passed in my book to even think Gane gave up position due to a leg lock attempt.

I am appreciating the sequence.

I'm just calling a spade a spade in that Francis swept Gane.

oh Francis one hundred percent swept gane, I think ganes transition just makes it look like he’s partly to blame. Who knows though, maybe ngannou was fucking up his balance with just the overbook, so gane got desperate.

I grapple so I don’t write off a sweep because the opponent made a mistake to increase the success. I guess you are trying to say ngannou forced the mistake from the arm control? And I’d agree on that point as well.

 

[Azure]

The worst mistake of all of them was rolling for the kneebar instead of continuing to stand up.. I credit Francis with the sweep because Gane was either trying to pass or set something up and he timed it..

Regardless.. Gane ended up on his back

 

[Luvhawky]

The pass also simply makes more sense on the basic fact that Gane hadn't freed his arms yet. Again, could be he just sucks and tried a sub without it, but then that also just leads to Ngannou outgrappling him for having had that first.

Which is also why to me it makes more sense that Ngannou was trying to sweep from the start seeing as he'd locked that down first.

Yeah, absolutely, how do you leg lock a side you don't have a free arm on...

 

[Luvhawky]

oh Francis one hundred percent swept gane, I think ganes transition just makes it look like he’s partly to blame. Who knows though, maybe ngannou was fucking up his balance with just the overbook, so gane got desperate.

I grapple so I don’t write off a sweep because the opponent made a mistake to increase the success. I guess you are trying to say ngannou forced the mistake from the arm control? And I’d agree on that point as well.

I'm wasn't specifically saying Frances created the sweep with the arm or Gane screwed up, I was just really saying Gane didn't go for a leg lock until he was already swept and dug for a leg while Frances was in his half guard. But as you see it with Gane being partly to blame, at the very least that is the case. It wasn't like that sweep was amazing to watch, Gane played a role in that.

 

[GORO]

Game got his ass kicked so bad lmfaoooo even his shots that land didn’t even hurt Francis AT ALL

 

[Captain Herb]

Looking at this a 4 dozen times now as of writing this, it tough to call. I see 100% what you mean that it's sweep, especially with the arm control. But it also looks like Gane is setting up a leg lock, since he's cradling Ngannou's leg before he steps up.

Hard to say. Very possible he was trying to pass to half guard and botched it, since Ngannou had the arm control. Could also be Gane felt like he was going to lose position anyway feeling Ngannou's strength. Maybe all of the above.

It seems clear to me that Ngannou dropped his leg to bait Gane into stepping over it. I don't know anything about grappling, so I'd say that if the leg lock required stepping into half guard first, then maybe he was going for a leg lock. If not, I'd say he was just trying to pass the leg and got swept

 

[phillystyleswag]

I feel like there are parts of grappling that are hard to know for sure just from watching. This feels like one of those times. Rogan and DC go crazy about grappling sometimes and I just feel like it's hard to pin down if what they are saying is accurate. I still am not sure if Oliveria grabbed Dustin's glove. I just couldn't see from the angles we had

 

[NoSmilez]

Gane was setting up for the leglock and Francis swept him. Both guys wanted to do their thing and it happened at the same time. Go roughly ten seconds before the whole sequence. Gane's right leg was already out of the guard. Gane kicked out his right leg to bring it back into guard and he posts on that same leg to isolate the left leg of Francis. It was clear he was trying to go for that leg. I don't believe Gane's intention was to pass

 

[Versez]

Game got his ass kicked so bad lmfaoooo even his shots that land didn’t even hurt Francis AT ALL

He was winning on the scorecard when standing.

 

[GORO]

He was winning on the scorecard when standing.

with pit patter one Francis strike equal 50 game punch that how weak game is

 

[Prologue]

It seems clear to me that Ngannou dropped his leg to bait Gane into stepping over it. I don't know anything about grappling, so I'd say that if the leg lock required stepping into half guard first, then maybe he was going for a leg lock. If not, I'd say he was just trying to pass the leg and got swept

I think I can just see an argument for both. I could 100% see how he got swept and tried to counter back with a leg lock, but looking at the gif, it appears (at least to me) like he's already kind of trying to set it up. Of course, Ngannou already has his arm, so maybe he was setting up for contingency, knowing that he was already in a bad spot and likely to get swept.

As a BJJ legend once put it....

 

[BiC Fist]

Except Ngannou is the one who had arm control for the sweep, not Gane had his arms free for the leg lock.

Gane got swept.

It was a work

 

[warriorfan808]

So he is bringing in two HW wrestlers to work with him. That does sound good, but what about a wrestling coach? Not sure who they have now….
I would like to see them bring in Reiner to roll with him.

 

[Jewish Lightning]

Never thought that we would be discussing the intricacies of leg locks/sweeps after this fight.

Lmaaoooo

 

[Willek]

I'm just glad Francis left French Edmund and went to a gym to become a well rounded fighter.

 

[Sanserif]

Why in the world would you attempt a leg lock with your posted arm captured with an overhook?

He got swept, even if you think he's thinking about a leg lock.

Ngannou is a absolutely terrible wrestler and grappler by world title fight standards. He is a 6 month white belt. He's dogshit. Thats just how more dogshit Gane is at grappling.

Gane was also way too enamoured of the heel hook technique just because it worked against Don tale mayes who did not even try to resist it. If he had just went for top Control and managed to maintain it till the end of the fight, he would probablyhave won the fight. However by trying to force a heel hook lock that was nit actually there, he made it easy for ngannou to reverse him and put him on his back and get top control and release himself from the cradle.

This shows gane's inexperience as a more experienced grappler and fighter would not have chosen to do what he did . Against tither fighters gane has managed to mask this lack of experience with his own fight iq, talent and athleticism but he finally came short against ngannou whose greater experience and better grappling won him the fight despite his knee injury.

I would disagree with you that nganou is a had wrestler. He was good enough to reverse miocic's takedown attempt and he did that not by superior brute strength but through solid wrestling ability

 

[CasualBot]

Revenge doesn't blink

 

[GeneTunney7]

French Edmund refers to himself as "The King".