Costa vs Romero was pretty close. Yoel isn’t a complete grappler like Khamzat. Was Yoel choking anyone out in the UFC? As you see with fighters like Justin Gaethje you can go quite far in this sport with no BJJ.
He is so confident he will beat him that he avoids him like he has Covid. Instead he calls out a former 155 fighter to fight at 185. Why not callout Someone smaller?
Don’t you remember them talking up Justin’s wrestling pedigree, how he was gonna beat Khabib with his “folk style” and visiting the college where he wrestled before the Oliviera fight?