Other than GSP...

Which fighters began as strikers but turned into grapplers?

GSP is the only one who comes to my mind but he already had good wrestling and BJJ

 

GSP was never predominantly a striker

 

I don't recall many.....although there are many more that are the other way around.

 

Bas Rutten

 

Kongo, sort of.

 

I thought his base was karate?

Obviously he had great grappling but he was a striker then moved towards grappling more... he always showed a high fight IQ in any case and was very very well rounded

 

Haha I almost made the same thread, but I just made the wrestler turned striker one, and thought people would complain. Gsp would've been my example as well.

 

Ahhhh good one, forgot about him

 

still talking about this eh?

 

this is a very good question. i sure as hell can't think of one.

 

Dennis Siver.

 

haha should have made it bro, who gives a fuck if sherdoggers complain

 

Francis Carmont? Mighty Mo

 

Good one, at 168 his grappling was top notch against Gamburyan (pity he pissed hot after it though).

 

His grappling was on point against Swanson too, in the first round at least.

 

He trained Karate as a kid/teenager and listed his style as karate, but if you look at even his earliest fights he was mostly a grappler.

 

maybe Bisping, i guess?

 

Kongo

Julia Budd

Best answer - many people didn't even know Carmont is/was a kickboxer

 

He was once, when he was just a karate guy, he then turn into mma and learn how to wrestle, but he was never a collegue wrestler. I mean that's what TS is refering to

 

I know benson did some tkd but he wrestled in college too didn't he?