How Good Is Gus' Wrestling?

[Ashi Barai]

His wrestling is damn good. He has excellent TDD and some really slick takedowns up his sleeve. The takedowns he hit against Shogun were great & the one against Manuwa was bad ass. He hit a nice trip/inside reap against Thiago Silva too back a couple years ago. He can also scramble well, mix up and transition from his striking and/or feinting with his takedowns quite effectively.

During the UFC Fan Q&A with Jones, DC, McGreGOAT & Poirier, Jones said that he found that it was "really hard to take him [Gus] down" and that his hips were a lot better/stronger than Jon predicted they would be going into the fight. Brendan Schaub said right after the Jones-Gus fight that the only way to get Gus down is to chain-wrestle him (chain one takedown attempt to the next). Jimmy Lidberg, a Swedish Olympic bronze medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling said that Gus was hard to take down too. That's saying something about how good his hips are, how good his sprawl is (not that there's a sprawl in Greco, there isn't), his balance & how solid his base is, and how fast his feet and reflexes are.

great reply thanks. yea if you have olympic wrestlers and jon jones saying how strong
his hips are then there will be very people outside of DC taking him to the ground.

 

[That Idiot Tibor**]

Solid TDD but other than that it's not proven to be good or bad.

 

[Melas Chasma]

Solid TDD but other than that it's not proven to be good or bad.

Why? Because you havent watch any of his fights?

 

[That Idiot Tibor**]

Why? Because you havent watch any of his fights?

Wrestling is more then TDD and takedowns but you can think like that.

 

[Han Solo]

Good enough to stuff JJ's TDs all night long, and take him down...