Is this the best 'grappling' fight in MMA?

[gono btw]

Saku vs. Newton should not be considered an MMA fight... not gonna go out and say it was a work, but it was a grappling match at best

Was Brennan Ward vs Awad a "MMA fight"? Crocop vs Barry? etc

 

[pv3Hpv3p]

Fair point, won’t argue

Wasn't trying to be a debbie-downer, that fights just always seems weird to me... still a cool grappling exhibition and doesn't take anything away from the awesomeness of Sakuraba, in my eyes

 

[tru3f4n]

Matt Lindland vs Joe Doerksen was a good one too

 

[613]

All the Karo/Diego/Nick fights had amazing grappling

 

[migeru29]

Just watched Diego Sanchez vs Nick Diaz, and I am blown away at the amount of skill they have shown in that fight. Diego got multiple takedowns, stacked Nick and landed some good GnP, but Diaz had multiple reversals, got his own takedowns and went for leglocks, omoplata and shown great wrist control from the bottom as well as landing a viscious upkick in the 2nd round.

Sanchez 30-27 no controversy. Definition of a great fight! Anyone agree?

PM me if u wanna see the 'highlights'.

Warch karo vs Diaz and karo vs Sanchez
Same quality of grappling

 

[Staph infection]

Couture vs Van Arsdale was a good grappling match until Van Arsdale gassed out

 

[GIBLERTBAPTISTA]

Tokoro vs Menjivar had alot of great grappling exchanges.

Aoki vs Uno was pretty one sided, but a great display of grappling from 2 high level guys.

One of the slickest triangle set ups ive ever seen. (Uno somehow still escapes)

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Diego was a motherfucker in his hay-day, vastly underrated top-notch grappler.

 

[waldywaldy]

Saku vs. Newton should not be considered an MMA fight... not gonna go out and say it was a work, but it was a grappling match at best

Meh

It was a gentleman's agreement. If they had gone the other way and agreed to slug it out you would have never made this claim

 

[tasticles]

This is a master grappling fight.

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

Buscape/Azeredo
Ishida/Melendez 1
Edgar/Griffin
Gurgel/Robinson


all had some very fast paced grappling exchanges...

I’ve personally always loved Arona/Lister and Shamrock/Severn 1 even though they are really slow paced bouts.

 

[Paladin]

Just watched Diego Sanchez vs Nick Diaz, and I am blown away at the amount of skill they have shown in that fight. Diego got multiple takedowns, stacked Nick and landed some good GnP, but Diaz had multiple reversals, got his own takedowns and went for leglocks, omoplata and shown great wrist control from the bottom as well as landing a viscious upkick in the 2nd round.

Sanchez 30-27 no controversy. Definition of a great fight! Anyone agree?

PM me if u wanna see the 'highlights'.

Hook me up with those highlights sheBro

 

[Max Power]

Nog vs Werdum in Pride.

 

[JustHereToLurk]

Tokoro vs Menjivar had alot of great grappling exchanges.

Aoki vs Uno was pretty one sided, but a great display of grappling from 2 high level guys.

One of the slickest triangle set ups ive ever seen. (Uno somehow still escapes)

Add Tokoro vs Cullum and Tokoro vs Uyenoyama. In fact, I might as well say that Tokoro is the most underrated entertaining grappler to fight the fight with him against Davis, Oishi 2, Nogueira, and Yamamoto 1.





Edit: I'll even recommend Vieira vs Obiya

 

[Isaiah095]

That was my first thought

I still think Shields/Maia is a grappling masterclass of a fight. It went all five and I enjoyed it immensely at the time.

 

[Bojka]

I remember being surprised how easy Diego made it look. Maia/Shields lived up to the hype though and is probably #1.

 

[Reffson]

Would like to see Maia vs. Kron.

 

[Source]

Edgar vs Griffin always comes to mind.

 

[Reffson]

I can't believe I missed the fight. Wild.

 

[Andre Xiong]

Sakuraba Newton


Nakamura vs Cristea migt be the most entertaining grappling fight nobody has ever seen

Which Nakamura?