I'm depressed that all the top russian HW prospects got crushed in the last 6 months. Are they any dynamic HW pressure grapplers I can pin my hopes on instead? (They don't gotta be russian)
Why? Russian orgs are ammong, if not the, most protective matchmakers on the planet...
For them two points are important, 1. bring in foreign fighters which seem quite strong but are very beatable in order to show the Russian crowd that Russians are superior to all "westerners", and
2. build up local stars by feeding no names to them beatable, preferebly foreign fighters, as long as possible... and when you do that all the time then it is more than likely that at one point in their
career their fighters will be exposed... this is especially forced in HW where the competition is shallow, in lower weight classes they have a large talent pool and therefore its harder to do so,
altought, when looking at the fight cards of Akhmat you can have events where every single Akhmat fighter has won, even if having more than 15 fights on the card, however, you never see
an Akhmat fighter doing something abroad