No other BJJ guy has a better sweep-game than Maia

[Goldentrophy]

Rockholds pretty good from the bottom too

Luke has my favourite sweep game

 

[sb413197]

Maia was beautiful to watch when he was in his groove. Great takedown game that worked because he was so confident in his BJJ and ability to get a sweep (basically making a guard pull into an extended takedown), tremendous top and back control. Time catches up to us all but I have the greatest respect for him.

 

[sb413197]

He is such a shit wrestler tho holy shit

This is a new opinion that I haven't seen expressed on here before - I'm sincerely curious as to the areas of his wrestling that you think were lacking, would you mind expanding a bit on that?

I've often heard it commented how good his takedowns were (in a MMA context) and the great results he got from working hard on his wrestling - taking down many a number of good wrestlers (sometimes admitted more with Judo than wrestling - Chael Sonnen for example), and having good top control. MMA can be tricky of course because other factors influence your ability to get a takedown beyond simply your wrestling ability - how you integrate it with strikes, your threat from the bottom and so on.