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Babalu: ‘Sonnen Showed Zero Jiu-Jitsu’

Babalu: ‘Sonnen Showed Zero Jiu-Jitsu’

 

 

Chael Sonnen and Renato Babalu Sobral competed in Metamoris 6 where they had an uneventful draw. Sonnen spent most of the match in Babalu’s guard. Babalu and Sonnen already fought in MMA and the fight ended with Babalu submitting Sonnen with a triangle.

Babalu wasn’t impressed by Sonnen’s performance.

He told Combate:

 

“I went there to fight, to finish. I tried my best, I opened his guard, I scrambled, but Sonnen didn’t fight, he just stalled the fight, he didn’t do anything. I offered him options, I was attacking, but he just held me there. It was a one man fight, a monologue. He thought a draw would be good for him. That’s a win for him, in his mind. Everyone is saying he won’t fight there again. He never did anything, and that’s boring. He showed zero jiu-jitsu”.

 

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For Babalu, if the fight had been MMA, it would have gone differently:

 

“They’re two very different sports. In submission, you can hold on. In MMA, if he tries to stall, he would get ground and pounded. You can’t do that in jiu-jitsu”.

 

Before the match, Babalu had told MMAFighting.com that he expected Sonnen to stall:

 

 “I will attack him from the beginning. I want to tap him as quick as possible.”

“I didn’t do a training camp for this,” he said. “I train every day, so for this match I just trained more wrestling, trained with Josh Barnett, but nothing special. It’s not a MMA bout, it’s a jiu-jitsu match. I’m going there to fight. I always train with my students, every single day, so it’s was kind of normal to me.”

“I think that what worries me the most in his game is his guillotine. I have to pay attention with his guillotine and stalling. If he tries to stall, I will do everything I can. I will submit him. I’m going there to submit him.”