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No, but it should be said that his submission over Shogun happened later in his career when Sonnen had been training with Neil Melanson and had finally made a serious attempt to learn submission grappling. By Chael's own admission, prior to that he didn't really study submission grappling in any serious way. Obviously he was an elite fighter who made his mark on the sport though. But I'm just saying, the Shogun submission is not representative of Chael's submission ability for the whole of his career or even necessarily most of it.
Sonnen tightened up his BJJ since at least training with Fabiano Pega Leve and that goes back to around 2008.
https://www.graciemag.com/fabiano-pega-leve-top-ultraheavy-at-american-nationals/
Had Chael toooled and submitted the very best version of Shogun, then how do we label the shertards that are calling Sonnen's BJJ "terrible" or a joke"? It would be embarrassing even by sherdog standards.
Things are not black and white. Sonnen's ground game went from being pretty flakey around mid '00s to being very solid around 2010 and beyond. It's painfully obvious in the Shogun fight but not only in the Shogun fight.
Im replying this caliber of clown:
Sonnen is a running joke for having a cartoon number of submission losses
Everybody beat Sonnen.
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Sonnen is absolutely terrible at BJJ, as evidenced by his journeyman record before
Excuse me but these are not serious takes on Sonnen's ground game and the Shogun fight, even that version of Shogun, shows that there are too much morons parroting sherdog memes on here.
This one with 22.000 posts ¡! in a mma forum is one of them as far as I can tell