It keeps coming up because young guys think all combat sports champions must transition to MMA in order to truly prove they are the toughest/best fighters in the world. Lots of people in the world don’t care about that or MMA anymore.
This is a retarded perspective. You realize this is the bjj forum right? It seems like you don’t. No one ever said he was the goat mma bjj fighter.
I mean, that’s not true at all. He plays a ton of seated guard and relies mostly on collar ties for takedowns. Neither of those work in mma.
Collar ties don’t work?
Gordon’s style of collar tie and underhook based clinching reminds me a lot of Randy’s.
Seated guard, sure.
But clinch based takedown games work well in MMA, especially at the higher weight classes where Gordon would be
He doesn’t have a clinch based game, he has a collar tie based game and it’s nothing like Randy’s at all. Collar ties do not work in mma.
I think you guys are missing an important point. Gordon doesn’t need to do MMA. The point was to climb to the top of submission grappling and help establish it as a legitimate sport. He did that. Plus, he probably makes more money than a lot of UFC fighters now too. What’s the motivation?
I personally don’t think he has the attributes for MMA. Grappling yes, but that is only part of it.