Why is there so much Merab slander since the Khamzat’s last fight

Conan the K-9 said:
Yeah, people didn’t like him beating Aldo and Yan, because they were their favorites and the story continues with January. Just like I said.
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You’re not wrong but he’s always been bashed for the way he fights, often times being lumped in as one of the inbred crotch sniffers that many complain about. Openly refusing to fight Aljo didn’t help anything either.
 
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RockyLockridge said:
thats not true at all, Im actually concerned that's the conclusion you've drawn lol. Dricus Submission defense was very good, he couldn't prevent being taken down, but he was able to make it so no damage could be done, and no subs were attempted.
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All of Merab recent opposition were much better at defending takedown and getting back up, leading to more action
 
Alpha_T83 said:
I think the worst part of control wrestling is that it stalls out the fight and wastes time.

Imagine if somehow point jabbing took 30 seconds off the clock every time you landed a jab, and you could win a round by out-landing your opponent 7-3 with jab strikes. That sounds like an insane example, but that's exactly what's happening with grappling. A small amount of takedowns are stalling out the clock and defining the entire round scoring.

I think both Merab and Khamzat's last fights were boring, and the rules should be changed to take points away from them for control-point-fighting.
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you CAN stall fights with jabs. it's just nobody jabs. you never seen Tim Sylvia fight before?
 
Pancake Sprawl said:
you CAN stall fights with jabs. it's just nobody jabs. you never seen Tim Sylvia fight before?
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Of course. Also GSP vs Koscheck was an example of effective jabs.

But there's a difference between fighting extremely defensively and trying to outpoint your opponent with jabs, and throwing out jabs as an effective weapon to damage your opponent.
 
KavkazDominance said:
Who cares ?

Ilia, Khamzat, Merab and soon Islam are all champions.

It just shows you that Caucasus wrestling dominates on the whole planet. Look at Merab, he outwrestled Cejudo with ease...

And Ilia also has a lot of wrestling background, there is NOBODY who can beat Ilia. He will soon be seen as the GOAT.
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A post retired loser version of Cejudo, who was the better wrestler r1 then gassed. Let's not pretend that's the guy who won a 5 round battle with DJ. The UFC is feeding that guy to Talbot next.
 
Prazeres said:
All of Merab recent opposition were much better at defending takedown and getting back up, leading to more action
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yes yes, the getting up part, but when you see how easily khamzat is able to sub guys like whittaker and Jingliang but not Dricus, there is a reason for it. Dricus did a great job of not getting finished despite khamzat trying
 
Mind Mine said:
On at least 15 occasions I have seen the same ol serenade of “why no hate for Merab”, ever since Khamzat got eviscerated by many fans for holding a man down for 5 rounds. Let’s be clear. Wrestling is not the key factor of discontent. It is Khamzat holding a man down for five rounds doing enough to prevent a stand up. Merab is constant pace and grinding with consistent position changes and a ton of MIXED MARTIAL ARTS. His style is not remotely close to Khamzat’s snooze fest. I actually find Merab fairly entertaining as a fighter although far from top of the heap at entertaining. I just don’t understand why is Merab being slandered over Khamzat’s trash fight and who are these mewbies that don’t know Merab got hella flack in the past? Are you bots? Explain yourself
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Because “no control time”
No serious sub attempts
20 takedowns sets a record and no damage done to the other fighter

It’s not what we pay for
 
The reason Merab is able to fight again is because he didn’t throw any punches and didn’t throw any kicks - all he did was chain wrestle for 25 mins and take no damage

0 mins control time vs Sand
 
Vampire life said:
Because “no control time”
No serious sub attempts
20 takedowns sets a record and no damage done to the other fighter

It’s not what we pay for
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I have zero problem watching chain wrestling. At any time there is an opportunity to escape and Merab mixes striking in but honestly he is tiny and at a reach disadvantage in most fights. He has to close distance
 
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Man what will these clowns say when Merab accomplishes the impossible and defends his title 4 times in a year? You know that we’ll probably never see some shit like that again, right? But yea, go on, keep comparing him to pullout merchants who fight 1x or less per year and bitching because he’s so well liked.
 
How is this a real thread? Khamzat's 1 boring fight was 50-44ing the reigning champ with multiple defenses, and 50-44 was being generous to DDP, has an 80% finish rate, and only 1 fight in his entire career where he didn't get the finish or win a 10-8. Merab has an 80% decision rate with more losses than finishes and shoots 50 TDs with no intention of doing anything with them until the clock runs out.
 
I have no idea. Merab & Khamzat's wrestling is phenomenal & not of this earth. They have both smoked their competition recently, so for Merab or Khamzat's wins to be diminished by comparing them to anyone else is absurd.
 
I’m forever conflicted about all of this.

I think getting a guy into basically any pretzel you want is a huge accomplishment but I think you should follow Jiri and pursue great moments

and not so much dance around live competition.
 
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