Name a fighter where their background is their weakest aspect of mma

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Tony Ferguson comes to mind to me......dude is such an absolute beast!

Background in wrestling, but I'd argue his striking, jiu jitsu, chin, heart, cardio, etc is all even better than his wrestling somehow.

I know plenty will probably disagree, cause his wrestling is good, and it is what opens up everything else for him. Dude is a savage though, regardless....nothing but respect.

So who else is a good example of this?
 
Carlos wrestled in high school right?

Bisping started in BJJ
 
Hendo is another good example. Where did his wrestling go ??? :eek:
 
Didn`t Lawler started has a Wrestler?
 
GSP was a karateka. Is that what they're called? Whatever they're called. They don't teach dry humping in karate.
 
No better answer than Condit. High school wrestler whose TDD is his bane.
 
Conor started in plumping yet he can't seem to stem the sewage that constantly pours from his mouth.
 
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Conor started in plumping yet he can't seem to stem the sewage that constantly pours from his mouth.
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Does that mean he used to be a fat kid or was he a chubby chaser when it came to the ladies?
 
For an UC Davis wrestling coach and two-time All-American wrestler with a NCAA National Championship to his name, Mark Munoz's wrestling was horrible.

He had good ground and pound and that's it. No takedowns, no control.
 
Ovince Saint Preux wrestled in high-school and it now seems to be his Achilles heel.
 
As I recall Mir started as a wrestler.

Unless I'm getting him mixed up with Vera, but I think mir was a HS wrestler


Edit- he was HS state champion but he had already started karate first by a few years

Source- wiki


Mir began training and competing in American Kenpo at a school owned by his parents, earning his black belt as a teenager.[11][12] Mir's father was a Cuban-born wrestler and played a major role in convincing him to begin wrestling on the basis that it could help him avoid submissions.
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Mir joined the wrestling team at Bonanza High Schoolduring his junior year and lost his first nine matches.[13] During his senior year (1998) he went 44–1 and won the state championship.[13] Mir played fullback and defensive end on the school's football team that reached the Southern Zone semifinals in 1997, and also competed in track and field. His discus throw of 177 feet, 10 inches is still a Sunset Regional record.
 
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Cain's cardio use to be second to none. Now he can only fight at sea level.
 
Chris Lytle sports a 13-1-1 professional boxing record and is known as a striker.

Yet, of his 31 MMA wins, only 3 of them have come by (T)KO. An astounding 22 of his wins came by submission.
 
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