How did Yan learn to wrestle?

[Motivated BJ Penn]

Did someone send him 2-3 years to Dagestan and forget? This is the first time Ive seen a striker close the wrestling gap on a caucasus wrestler and even outwrestled him at times! WTF.

Props to Yan but isnt he training from Thailand or some shit? How tf did he do it?

 

[HHJ]

Have you not watched Yan's other fights?

He actually did go to Dagestan to train wrestling.

 

[don't ask]

Russian saunas

 

[Spam On Rye]

He has 2 hands now. Plus Merab is Eastern Orthodox so not blessed with that inbred power like the Khabib types.

 

[Killhippies]

Russia in general is not going to have a lack of world class grapplers to train with, even outside of Dagestan.

 

[Bork Neslar]

Someone taught him.

 

[HHJ]

Russia in general is not going to have a lack of world class grapplers to train with, even outside of Dagestan.

He actually has gone multiple times to the source though.

 

[HHJ]

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

He's fought 3 Serra Longo fighters a total of 4 times, he's likely had to work diligently at upping his grappling every camp since the first fight

 

[HHJ]

He's fought 3 Serra Longo fighters a total of 4 times, he's likely had to work diligently at upping his grappling every camp since the first fight

He gave them big time respect after the fight, it's made him a better fighter trying to beat them.

But he had been going even before then.

 

[AMAZINGUFC]

The question is
How did Payton learn to wrestle so quicky?

 

[b00tysweat]

He actually has gone multiple times to the source though.

that's one thing i like so much about Yan. he hits the road, goes to uncomfortable places to improve. He has a student's heart, very glad he won the belt!

 

[ChessJitsu]

Did someone send him 2-3 years to Dagestan and forget? This is the first time Ive seen a striker close the wrestling gap on a caucasus wrestler and even outwrestled him at times! WTF.

Props to Yan but isnt he training from Thailand or some shit? How tf did he do it?

The Caucus isn't the only region with phenomenal wrestling.

Karelin is the GOAT of Greco-Roman wrestling and he's a regular Slavic Russian.

 

[CrimsonFan]

I actually think Yan would have beat Aljo if he kept applying wrestling offense. I think he learned from that loss. Gotta wrestle if youre gonna beat someone whos constantly trying to take you down. Cant just sprawl and strike.

But yea his grappling has always been real good.

 

[HHJ]

The question is
How did Payton learn to wrestle so quicky?

It was impressive.

I just think he still plays around too much. He should take it more serious in there imo.

 

[HHJ]

I actually think Yan would have beat Aljo if he kept applying wrestling offense. I think he learned from that loss. Gotta wrestle if youre gonna beat someone whos constantly trying to take you down. Cant just sprawl and strike.

But yea his grappling has always been real good.

I mean lets face it he was whuppin aljo in the first fight and in the second, Aljo stalled him out with the figure four.

 

[PlayTheGame]

He did, in fact, go to Dagestan in the past.


But you can train with amazing grapplers, including the Dagestanis/Ossetians, pretty much in every major Russian city; they live all over the country. He started training MMA in Siberia, which has tons of great sambists, for example.

 

[mirellale]

Did you watch his other fights? He absolutely toyed with Sterling in their first fight and he actually defended most of the takedowns of Merab in their first fight.

 

[HHJ]

Did you watch his other fights? He absolutely toyed with Sterling in their first fight and he actually defended most of the takedowns of Merab in their first fight.

That gif of him slamming Sterling on the head is VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL to the one he got on Merab last night

 

[Orochimaru 大蛇丸]

He did, in fact, go to Dagestan in the past.


But you can train with great wrestlers, including the Dagestanis/Ossetians, pretty much in every major Russian city; they live all over the country.

I never saw this, thanks for posting

I would kill to train in one of these rooms