Gary Tonon on Weidmans BJJ

[Carl25]

Probably $0.00. He's trained with Weidman before. You sound salty.

Yeah and Roger Gracie gave Rashad (no submission) Evans his Jiu Jitsu black belt

 

[Taric]

I'd love to see Chris grapple Jacare

Jacare isn't the grappler he used to be imo. Such an evenly matched grappling bout. Would be sick.

 

[Wadtucket]

Weidman may or may not be the best grappler in the UFC right now

 

[lsa]

Weidman may or may not be the best grappler in the UFC right now

Are you really sure about that?

 

[Bones245n4847]

Weidman may or may not be the best grappler in the UFC right now

You're 100% right.

 

[HaulParris]

Had no idea who the Tonon fellow was, google image search turned up this interesting photo:

Caption should be "like a boss"

 

[Docile]

He's probably the most underrated grappler in the UFC, to be honest. by some mysterious epidemic of mass-hypnosis, otherwise intelligent people truly believe that Rockhold is a better BJJ player than him, for instance.

Rockholds results speak for themselves.

Frankly if this B-line was true he shouldn't have had any issues submitting Anderson with that heel hook or Machida early in the fight.

You're making excuses if you're discarding how Rockhold handled that fight.

 

[Magnum1978]

that's high praise coming from Tonon, he's a machine

 

[stevenseagle]

I'd love to see Chris fight Jacare

There you go

 

[rjmbrd]

He's probably the most underrated grappler in the UFC, to be honest. by some mysterious epidemic of mass-hypnosis, otherwise intelligent people truly believe that Rockhold is a better BJJ player than him, for instance.

Let's keep in perspective Rockhold is a freaky good MMA adapted grappler himself. He was winning jiu-jitsu tournaments before he transitioned into MMA. He's shown some very dominant ground work in his short UFC tenure.

Chris is most definitely the better wrestler, but they may be commensurate on the ground. Most definitely two high level killers.

 

[bjjwar]

That's a lot different than your standard " I think so and so could probably hang with top guys. He's straight up saying Weidman would beat them lol.

Edmund says Ronda would beat the crap out of pro boxers.Even male pro boxers.

Nothing new here.

 

[ilfirin]

High praise from a stellar grappler. I still wouldn't favour him in a grappling match against the likes of Jacare or Maia, but Tonon doesn't throw praise like this around much.