News Official: Umar Nurmagomedov booked for grappling match Oct 25

[Joinho10]

Facing the former Bellator champion Eduardo "Dudu" Dantas from Nova Uniao in a Main event grappling match.



Any predictions boys and how do you feel about fighters taking grappling matches in general but also before a big fight?

 

[filthybliss]

I thought it was a title fight with Merab and I was stoked

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

@HHJ gonna get reallll pissy at your thread title lol

Edit:
Thread title has now been changed lol

 

[JustOnce]

I never understood why they watch shit like this, same with bareknuckle. Umar is probably best BW out there and an amazing mma wrestler/grappler, but they aren't really all that at pure wrestling or bjj and Dantas is meh even being generous. It just makes little sense to me and even having followed MMA for more than 20 years, I've never watched any of this live. Only thing that was interesting to me you could say was Khamzat vs Hermansson, because of how much hype Khamzat had at that time and the guy was moving up a weight class. Oh and, I was curious about Askren vs Burroughs too.

 

[Domitian]

Interesting. I wish more fighters did things like this.

 

[Joinho10]

I thought it was a title fight with Merab and I was stoked

@HHJ gonna get reallll pissy at your thread title lol

My bad lol, I updated the title now to include grappling.

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Facing the former Bellator champion Eduardo "Dudu" Dantas from Nova Uniao in a Main event grappling match.



Any predictions boys and how do you feel about fighters taking grappling matches in general but also before a big fight?

Really interesting when they are big names!
Means little if mma fighters lose but also shows something about their pure grappling.
Win-win!

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

My bad lol, I updated the tile now to include grappling.

lol, I see that. No prob for me bud, I liked the thread title you had. But for some reason folks get mad.

 

[payton]

Why dose UFC allow fighters to do side hustles like wrestling, BJJ and TV stuff
but no Boxing or K1?

 

[Khaosan]

Inb4 injury and Merab rematches Suga.

 

[flektarn]

Why dose UFC allow fighters to do side hustles like wrestling, BJJ and TV stuff
but no Boxing or K1?

if I had to guess they're less worried about injuries. You shouldn't get chinned which is generally an immediate 6 month suspension from trainning/fighting. BJJ and wrestling...just fucking tap and don't let the guy rip your knee to shreds. I don't know if Dana has ever said anything officially, though.

 

[blaseblase]

Dantas has been washed for a while and got outwrestled by Joe Warren years ago. I don't expect this to be that competitive.

 

[kingmob6]

He is ducking Merab. Doesn't want that Georgian ice lake smoke.

 

[Goutfather]

i wanna say they’ll throw fig in there on short notice once oomar gets injured, but in reality yeah it’ll probably be sean, and he’ll probably know way ahead of time that he’s the alternate so he’ll be ready if that happens.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Why doesn't Umar grapple someone good if he's unbeatable like Khabib and Islam? I heard those guys teched D1 champs and submitted ADCC medalists in the regular at AKA in the training rooms. Dantas is just sorta a washed MMA fighter with no BJJ or grappling accomplishments that are at all noteworthy.

 

[HHJ]

@HHJ gonna get reallll pissy at your thread title lol

Edit:
Thread title has now been changed lol

??

 

[Noraaq]

Why doesn't Umar grapple someone good if he's unbeatable like Khabib and Islam? I heard those guys teched D1 champs and submitted ADCC medalists in the regular at AKA in the training rooms. Dantas is just sorta a washed MMA fighter with no BJJ or grappling accomplishments that are at all noteworthy.

Umar and Usman arent elite grapplers like Khabib/Islam. That should be rather obvious to most ppl by now.

 

[markys00]

This def belongs in the UFC discussion board

 

[HuskySamoan]

Umar and Usman arent elite grapplers like Khabib/Islam. That should be rather obvious to most ppl by now.

You think so? I'll be honest, firstly Khabib and Islam wouldn't All American in Folkstyle or do well in freestyle and all their wrestling footage vs decent guys is either labeled misleadingly or it's 15 second clips with high caliber wrestlers that they still have 20lbs on or more. They also aren't winning any ADCCs and they aren't legitimately beating those guys on the mats. That said? They are amazing and Umars grappling I think fairly highly of, he's faced some guys like Saidyokub and Cory who are basically more competent defensive grapplers than most all of Khabib or Islams opponents ever were. Important to bear in mind.

 

[wufabufa]

It seems the only way Dudu might be able to pull this off is if he's been really studying up on modern no-gi leg entanglements and back takes. Otherwise, Umar's solid fundamentals, youth, and strength will put him over pretty easy.