BJ's motivation in Frankie vs. BJ 3 > Mighty Mouse's drawing power > Conor's ground game > Rousey's striking
I'm not a fan of the guy at all, and his BJJ looks like it wasn't very good in 2012, but everyone started somewhere.
Yeah, I don't think his ground game is very good, but I don't see the use in dredging up a 2012 video to illustrate that.
And Mendes ground game consists of LnP and complaining about perfectly legal elbows by Conor from the bottom. I guess you missed the part where Conor shutdown 90% of Chads ground offense and got back up to TKO him.
He really needs a good bottom game if he wants to reign a long time. That's if he can even beat Aldo. His TDD is nonexistent. A good wrestler with a full camp and good gameplan of lay and pray beats him no doubt.
What you are looking at is b-jj v's mma-jj Listen to this interview with G Nelson, Conors training partner, taken prior to 189 "every time when we are training JJ now we're... in my mind its for mma.. so even if we are not striking I don't go into positions that I know are very dangerous for mma " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SaQGyY6CSY Now watch this video again and look at Conors posture and placement of his head and arms vs his opponents when in guard and ask yourself who is in a better position to deliver some ground-and-pound in any given situation. Take for example time 5.27 and imagine Conor delivering some vicious elbows on top of his opponent's head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEvIuwZ2PMc What i see is Conors vastly superior mma-jj but then again this is b-jj tournament and Conor loosing was expected.
he was exposed, even if he did manage to win the fight. anyone watching objectively saw it. it's only a matter of time before he gets submitted again, and it will probably happen sooner rather than later.
