Issue 159
November -0001
We look through the history books to find the best takedown specialists and analyze their styles
Dan Severn
Not the first wrestler in the clash-of-styles early UFC, but the first successful one. He reached the final at UFC 4, before coming back to win at the next event.
Mark Coleman
NCAA Div. I champion, world champion, Olympian and first UFC heavyweight champion. The ‘Godfather of Ground and Pound’ was a pioneer of his style.
Kid Yamamoto
A natural athlete who wrestled at high school in Tempe, Arizona, then added extreme power striking to his arsenal and took on much bigger foes
Georges St-Pierre
With no background in Greco, freestyle or folk style, GSP developed a wrestling game purely for MMA, and is arguably the best to ever do it in a cage.
Ben Askren
An anomaly in the modern era: a pure wrestler. ‘Funky’ doesn’t have much in the way of striking, but doesn't need to if no one can stop his shot.
Daniel Cormier
A two-time US Olympic wrestler, DC became the best P4P fi ghter in the world last year having won both Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight UFC titles.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
A new kind of hybrid grappler, using a mix of wrestling, judo and sambo to be arguably the most dominant exponent in the sport today.
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