The narrative that Ankalaev is a Great Wrestler

He is dagestani, so people act like that automatically gives him +100 wrestling points. From what I've seen his wrestling is serviceable, but not necessarily elite of the elite. It helps that he's in a division with very little wrestlers.

I'm looking forward to seeing Oumar sy climb the rankings. His wrestling and grappling looks better than most in that division.
 
He took down Jan for almost 3 rounds. Even in his loss to Craig still controlled him longer on the ground. Also has pretty much taken down all his opponents in the UFC so far, except for a few. If you look around LHW, not too many guys who control people on the ground.

He did only start wrestling in college, but the fact he learned in Dagestan who are some of the best, he was good enough to win championships back in 2013.
 
JustBleed69 said:
Where does this come from? I don't really remember any fights where he displayed some incredible takedown & grappling ability.

Maybe I'm just not remembering?
Who has he grapple fucked before?
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I mean people were pushing that narrative with Jan Blachowicz aswell so it doesn’t take much, Ankalaev usually uses grappling when he needs to like he did vs Blachowicz.
 
I don't ever remember a narrative that he was some LHW Khabib, just that he had very solid wrestling/grappling relative to the division and was actually well-rounded with decent striking to compliment it, making him a threat in multiple areas.

When the champion has almost non-existent TDD from what we've seen (taken down by Bruno Silva, pulled Izzy on top of him, and got taken down by Jiri), it makes for a compelling match-up.
 
He controlled Jan pretty well in those last 2 rounds & no doubt could do the same to Alex Pereira if he had to.
 
he aint a chain rassler but he can take ppl down

it helps his striking game

I think think Alex sleeps him, tho
 
He's not an elite wrestler. But he's by far the best wrestler in the LHW top 15, which is why the UFC is keeping him away from Alex.
 
He's a decent wrestler, Alex is a terrible wrestler.
 
Tweak896 said:
He took down Jan for almost 3 rounds. Even in his loss to Craig still controlled him longer on the ground. Also has pretty much taken down all his opponents in the UFC so far, except for a few. If you look around LHW, not too many guys who control people on the ground.

He did only start wrestling in college, but the fact he learned in Dagestan who are some of the best, he was good enough to win championships back in 2013.
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To play devils advocate Jan was taken down by ease by old man Glover, and controlled on the ground by out of prime Luke for a entire round, and Rakic had 4 minutes of control time against Jan
 
Cowboy Kurt Angle said:
To play devils advocate Jan was taken down by ease by old man Glover, and controlled on the ground by out of prime Luke for a entire round, and Rakic had 4 minutes of control time against Jan
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Jan also got 3 takedowns against Alex and controlled him for over 7 minutes, it's not very hard to see why people feel like Magomed would do similar things to Poatan without gassing.

Ankalaev is as great a wrestler as you're gonna get in the current UFC LHW division. There's a reason they were more than happy with letting Corey, Bader and Davis walk years ago.
 
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