Struggling remains the dominant skills in MMA, with some elite hunters of the sport who do their best work on the floor.
UFC champions such as Islam Makhachev and Merab Dvalishvili may have become well-completed hunters who can do it all, but it is their wrestling foundations that make them so impressive threats.
A man who can keep his own in a wrestling match with everyone on the planet is the former Olympic gold medal winner Gable Steveson.
Steveson recently dedicated to MMA while he moves in the footsteps of hunters such as Henry Cejudo who has made a successful transition to the Octagon.
The former WWE and NFL certificate recently used his area of ​​expertise to weigh who the best wrestlers are in the UFC today and deliver a number of surprising results.
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Gable Steveson named Paddy Pimblett as one of the best wrestlers in the UFC today
During his interview on Mike Perry's overog podcast, Gable Steveson was given the task of calling the top three wrestlers who are currently active in the UFC.
The 24-year-old wanted to make a clear distinction between people strictly assessing on the basis of their references and their versions in the Octagon, which would influence some of his choices.
With Steveson training with Jon Jones in the past, it was not surprising to see 'bones' make the list.
The former Olympian decided to pass one of the other most praised wrestlers that America has produced in the past decade.
'I don't want to be biased or nothing, but you're going to post Jon [Jones] Number one. You have to, and then I would say that you have to place Bo Nickal Two, from a wrestling position … To be honest, I am sorry, Bo Nickal did not really struggle in a fight. So I'm sorry, we can't even place it number two. '
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Steveson continued to add a different name to the list whose struggle was completely dominant in MMA before he added that if we strictly had references, Nickal would take first place.
'We have to place Khamzat [Chimaev] two. We have to say two places, so if we are going to wrestle general, only from USA Wrestling, Bo Nickal number one, but we have to post Jon number one. We have to go two places.
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He then threw his most rogue suggestion away by calling Paddy Pimblett and although 'The Baddy' did not make the last top three, his recording into the shortlist was surprising.
'You have to throw a padie [Pimblett] in that. Just from the last fight because [Michael] Chandler was a D1 wrestler and just from the up and down of Paddy, from the Takedown, everything. '
Steveson moved Pimblett from running after he admitted that he had forgotten the current pound-for-pound number one in the UFC.
“Islam [Makhachev]I'm sorry. I forgot Islam. I would say, let's sit Islam three places. So we do Jon, we do Khamzat, we do Islam. Top three. “
Gable Steveson gets up to prevent the grab coach of Jack della Maddalena in a super fight
On August 31, two of the best grapplers in the world will record it when Gable Steveson takes on the self-proclaimed 'King of Jiu-Jitsu', Craig Jones.
Jones achieved great success last year with his inaugural CJI event [Craig Jones Invitational] where he submitted Gabi Garcia.
The former IBJJF and ADCC world champion also coaches Alexander Volkanovski and Jack della Maddalena, who were in the corner of the new Welterweight champion at UFC 315 last weekend.
On the overogs -podcast, Steveson has expressed how he will approach an elite retirement specialist.
“Craig is seasoned to sit on his back and be reliable in that position, so we are used to wrestlers, especially me, is just busy, pressure, pressure. But I know that is what he is looking for and therefore, just avoiding that, touching the right corners, touching the straight corners and that body weight really come on him.”