Gordon Ryan
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In the morning.
But he just got dominated across the board when it came to grappling.
Not only could he not stop the takedown, but he also couldn't get up.
And when he did get position on Hamzat, he couldn't hold it.
Yeah, pretty different.
There's no other sport like this.
If you look at the sport now, like you have guys who are like specialists in one thing and then, you know, like Pereira's a great striker and then he's like decent everywhere else or, you know, Khabib's a great grappler and then he's got decent striking.
20 years from now, people are going to be specialists in fucking everything.
Yeah, they're going to be doing it from the time they're kids.
Yeah, the thing is it's like if you're special, those fighters are also just meatheads.
So that's another issue.
The finality of MMA, in my opinion, should be a situation where
A generalist MMA fighter can be competitive with specialists across the board in every martial art.
So he can hold his own with the world's best boxer, his weight, world's best jiu-jitsu guy, his weight, world's best wrestler, his weight.
Damn, that's hard.
But you might be able to neutralize.
If you just got some autistic protege that's willing to put in the time.
I don't think there's enough hours in the day.