The grappling in the UFC is at an all-time LOW

This has been obvious for anyone with a brain for a while.

But its mainly MW, LHW and HW. Other divisions have strong grappling.
HW has Jones, Aspinall, Jailton, Blaydes, Spivak, Romanov. That's not weak at all.
 
It doesn't seem to translate quite as well these days. Multiple time world BJJ champ Buchecha lost to fucking Reug Reug on Friday.
That was glorious:
"OK, I'll just stand u, bro."
"Don't bother with the arm bar, you're not strong enough."
"I'll just randomly kick and jump out of your leg lock. What you gonna do?"
"Look, I am on top of you, you can't do shit because I'm too big".
 
Because those grapplers can't hang with strikers these days. There's a reason very few BJJ guys jump into MMA or why there's not enough top wrestlers coming into MMA. Getting punched and kicked is a different game. And these days everyone has decent TDD because of the emphasis and training resources to train TDD
 
Pantoja just grappled his way to the belt.
Sterling is going to his fourth defense.
Volk is a very strong wrestler.
Charles vs Islam needs no comments.
Jon Jones just became champion with a grappling clinic after spending half a decade struggling to kickbox journeymen at LHW.

5/8 belts is a good figure for grappling.
 
If it's not at elevation I don't think Jan gasses like that lol. That was rough.

It's his age. He gassed pretty good against Ankalaev as well when he had Magomed on the ropes. 40 years old is no joke, and not everyone is Randy Couture or Glover Teixeira.
 
It's just MW, LHW, & HW that are bad.
 
Lightweight and welterweight have pretty good wrestlers.

welterweight: usman ncaa division 2, Colby black belt in bjj, Belal purple belt in bjj, khamzat purple belt in bjj, burns 3rd degree black belt in bjj, shavkat master of sport in combat sambo and mma, Sean Brady black belt in bjj, Luque black belt in bjj and black belt in Luta livre, Holland black belt in bjj, Ian Garry black belt in judo.


Lightweight: Islam international master of sport in combat sambo, Oliveira 3rd degree bjj black belt, Poirier black belt in bjj, Gaethje ncaa division 1, Dariush black belt in bjj, Chandler ncaa division 1, gamrot black belt in bjj, Tsarukyan master of sport in mma and master of sport in freestyle wrestling, rda 4th degree black belt in bjj, Dawson black belt in bjj, Moicano black belt in bjj, Ferreira 3rd degree black belt in bjj
I agree more on WW, not so much on LW. There is Charles and Islam, then there is everyone else. The credentials you mention for all the other LWs really don't translate to dominance on the ground in MMA (for these individuals I mean). Daruish is the best other than the top 2 on the ground, and he looked pretty sad against Charles. Same with Justin.
 
I wonder why...

They have no interest in signing the actual best mixed martial artists in the world. Dana White's Stand and Bang Contender Series has produced much of the top shelf grappling talent you see in the Ultimate Circus today. Uncle Goof himself could probably be top 10 right now.

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Wrong.

DWCS brings in the best talent. I mean guys like Ikram Aliskerov and Bo Nickal had to go through it just to get to UFC. Lol
 
It's just MW, LHW, & HW that are bad.
Are they though? I mean MW has Du Plesis, Khamzat, Muniz, Vieira, Ikram Aliskerov, Paul Craig and Bo Nickal. All elite level grapplers
 
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Wrong.

DWCS brings in the best talent. I mean guys like Ikram Aliskerov and Bo Nickal had to go through it just to get to UFC. Lol

Lol at the best talent. Blatantly refusing to sign fantastic grapplers because they shoot for a takedown is not recruiting the best talent.

It's not surprising the guy who thought Ciryl Gane is the GOAT and would be undefeated for a decade thinks Dana White's Dancing With the Stars recruits the best MMA and grappling talent. It's hilarious you still shows your face around here.

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What is happening now is a talent pool issue. Chronic low pay won't bring in talent that will be willing to work hard enough to be well rounded.

ROFL at LW being the best it's ever been. There are 2 good fighters, the rest are not well rounded or don't have great skills. Dustin and Justin are basically number 3 and 4, and any good grappler would tool them on the ground, and already have.

LHW actually now is worse than HW. Pav, Aspinal, Jones Stipe, Blaydes, Almeida are better than the pathetic state of LHW where there are no grapplers in sight.
WTF are you talking about? WEC we’re paying fighters 3K show money and the managed to get talent like Aldo, Faber, Cruz, Cerrone, DJ, Pettis etc
 
Lol at the best talent. Blatantly refusing to sign fantastic grapplers because they shoot for a takedown is not recruiting the best talent.

It's not surprising the guy who thought Ciryl Gane is the GOAT and would be undefeated for a decade thinks Dana White's Dancing With the Stars recruits the best MMA and grappling talent. It's hilarious you still shows your face around here.

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So Ikram Aliskerov and Bo Nickal aren’t the best talent and aren’t great grapplers? Tell me more

You’re a moron with an agenda refusing to acknowledge the facts
 
So Ikram Aliskerov and Bo Nickal aren’t the best talent and aren’t great grapplers? Tell me more

You’re a moron with an agenda refusing to acknowledge the facts

They're very good talent. Now think about all the fighters they ignored, numbnuts. A picture is worth a thousand words:

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Speaking of "morons." Has anything this stupid ever been said on these forums?

Just realised nothing more impressive then his streak to start a career has ever been achieved.

You are an absolute ass clown.

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WTF are you talking about? WEC we’re paying fighters 3K show money and the managed to get talent like Aldo, Faber, Cruz, Cerrone, DJ, Pettis etc
We're is not a contraction in this usage- it's were.

Your intellect is clearly short both on grammar and ideas, so I don't want t talk to you.
 
Good thing Dana is "aggressively going after the grappling world."

We'll see.
 
Clown take, yes LHW hasn't caught up to prime Jones but grappling is very strong in the UFC between black belt Pantoja, funkmaster Sterling, Craig Jones Volkanovski, Islam, etc
 
We're is not a contraction in this usage- it's were.

Your intellect is clearly short both on grammar and ideas, so I don't want t talk to you.
Lol.

Ever heard of autocorrect and typos? I brought up facts that completely destroy your argument and all you could reply to is a typo. You’re weak
 
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