Gordon Ryan
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They do, but most people just don't know what to look for.
Oh, nice spinning elbow.
They look for the wrong things.
They're just surface level things, most of the time.
But if you look at the wrestling that the Dagestani guys do in fighting, there's no real place to study that wrestling.
You have to create your own system.
Because it's not jiu-jitsu.
It's not wrestling.
If you look at freestyle wrestlers, freestyle wrestlers historically in the UFC don't hold anybody down.
The takedowns are scored by the actual takedowns in freestyle wrestling.
Not control.
Yeah, the takedown when we were fighting means nothing.
It's the control that actually scores.
Like, can you hold the guy down and actually keep him down and do damage?
That's why the daggies are dominant.
Well, he's so explosive.
He would put guys down, but he wouldn't hold them down.
Like when Khabib and Hamza put guys down.