Who Should Gordon Ryan face next?

[Fast_Pitch]

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.

[Animal_Mother]

@XandeTapped

Gordon is an absurd talent, may never be another like him, not in my lifetime anyway, but…

…it will all be for show until he proves himself in the mma world, which is why Buchecha is on track to be the true GOAT if he can keep it up and be a better mma fighter than Roger turned out to be. Fighting actual fighters like Rickson never did, actually fighting like Gordon doesn’t seem to want to do.

I want to be wrong and have him go into mma, but he knows in that world Buchecha and Galvao would fucking murder him, so he never will.

Sub or jacket wrestle all you want, until you prove you can use it in the closest thing we have to actual professional fighting you’re still riding with training wheels on.

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.

[Animal_Mother]

@Soul_Gravy

The only BJJ athletes I insist fight MMA to prove themselves are the ones whose games are so sport-oriented that I think they’ve lost sight of what BJJ is. Gordon’s never shown anything that wouldn’t translate well to MMA, and in fact most of his game would do quite well. So he’s exempt.

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.

[CrabScissors]

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

[Animal_Mother]

@CrabScissors

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.

[GB_Dave_Jr]

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.