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They're nothing alike.
The Gracies invented something, they pioneered something. But they did so at the advent of the sport so it's not very impressive because, they simply knew one thing when everyone else knew nothing.
The Nurmagomedovs aren't really coaches they're recruiters. Chechnya has had the strongest wrestling tradition in the world for decades. And sambo is a sort of spinoff art of that. It was a gold mine waiting to be tapped. Most of the Chechen mixed martial artists that now populate the sport were never personally trained by Abdulmanap, and even if they were, not primarily. And he certainly didn't create any technique, much less martial art, that hadn't been seen before. There are many elite gyms in Chechnya that these high level fighters come from, many of them camp at different gyms when they come to the US as well, what Khabib has pioneered with Eagles MMA is more of a pipeline than a technique. Which isn't less valuable, it's just again, very different.
The Gracies invented something, they pioneered something. But they did so at the advent of the sport so it's not very impressive because, they simply knew one thing when everyone else knew nothing.
The Nurmagomedovs aren't really coaches they're recruiters. Chechnya has had the strongest wrestling tradition in the world for decades. And sambo is a sort of spinoff art of that. It was a gold mine waiting to be tapped. Most of the Chechen mixed martial artists that now populate the sport were never personally trained by Abdulmanap, and even if they were, not primarily. And he certainly didn't create any technique, much less martial art, that hadn't been seen before. There are many elite gyms in Chechnya that these high level fighters come from, many of them camp at different gyms when they come to the US as well, what Khabib has pioneered with Eagles MMA is more of a pipeline than a technique. Which isn't less valuable, it's just again, very different.