gordoplata
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Marcelo's key to success is his expressionless war face.
In my humble and very uneducated opinion, Marcelo does not seem to have any urgency of position when on the ground, he is far too comfortable. In MMA being on the ground is bad/not great in a majority of positions that would be advantageous/not dangerous in straight grappling, i.e. bottom of half guard, bottom open guard, top full guard etc.
He will have to adapt his game to the fact that punches and elbows are coming in all these "neutral" grappling positions, and that they are no longer neutral. I have seen a few people take marcelo's back (which just does not happen EVER in a grappling match) when sparring with strikes. Maybe he will be able to adapt as he is a phenomenal athlete and incredibly hard worker, but I think that he will have limited success in MMA until he can gain that urgency that is needed when on the ground.
ADCC 2007 was enough evidence, he ran through everybody he fought even in Absolute except for Drysdale.
Diego Sanchez had close grappling war with him, anyone got video.
Diego is amazing grappler.
Close my ass. Sanchez being defensive until he gets armbarred
Diego Sanchez had close grappling war with him, anyone got video.
Diego is amazing grappler.
I was wondering when someone will put the link to his mma fight.
First, he have to work on his wrestling his shoot was so ugly...
Second, he have to work on his striking, that was ugly too.
His ground game is top notch, just need to adapt a little bit, setuping his things with strikes and learn to be striked too.
If he train seriously and full time in mma, he can do good, but i'm not sure about his physique/strengh at 155lbs. If he does it part time, he will not be able to get everything together and he will never be a threat to any good 155lbs mma guy, even if he's a bjj god.
You have to be complete in modern mma, just look at Penn, GSP, Silva, Nog, fedor, they are complete athletes.
i think he's fighting at WW not LW
He's listed at 154lbs. I hope he will not fight at 170, i already doubt about his strenght at 155, he look like a small 155lbs, immagine with a 170lbs monster like GSP or Fitch or Alvez...
If i'm not wrong, bjj guy are not in the 'cutting weight' game that munch, he will have to learn that too.
he grapples at 167 and walks around at about 180
EDIT
although a cut to 155 seems feasible
He's listed at 154lbs. I hope he will not fight at 170, i already doubt about his strenght at 155, he look like a small 155lbs, immagine with a 170lbs monster like GSP or Fitch or Alvez...
If i'm not wrong, bjj guy are not in the 'cutting weight' game that munch, he will have to learn that too.
you are such a retarded troll it's not even funny
He wonderboy!! Go get some 'decoration' (like my xmas tree lol!!) and get of my back.
YOU are the troll, go to fight finder and look what weight Garcia was listed for his fight. And as long as i know, bjj guys didnt cut that munch for bjj comp.
So, what do you have to say about that WonderBoy?? If you dont have anything to say about this thread, keep your mouth shout and stop trolling around. Go train asshole.