Robert Drysdale is advancing his MMA career one step at a time. Long time bjj black belt recently scored a second round submission victory against Ryan Spann on July 22nd for Legacy FC light heavyweight championship. 

Still Drystdale knows his performance wasn’t flawless. He told MMAweekly:

“I feel I was a little too eager to finish, and missed some submissions I should have hit,” Drysdale said. “I’ll give (Spann) credit, he had good defense and he came ready.

“Those are submissions I would never miss in practice. They were slipping. I didn’t feel great physically. But I still go the win.”

Spann pushed out Drysdale a little more out of his comfort zone – Drysdale got used to early first round finishes.

“Nothing’s perfect, you’re going to make mistakes, and believe it or not, I’m glad I got hit a little bit,” said Drysdale. “In my other fights, I didn’t take any damage. I was hanging in there and not backing down after getting hit.

“I’ve always known that I had that, but I hadn’t done it in a fight. It was nice to be able to stay in there, get hit and still fight, and have more of a scrap rather than just a quick submission.”

“I think my wrestling has definitely gotten better; my clinching game and wall wrestling; that’s probably what’s progressed the most,” he said.

“I think my Jiu-Jitsu has become more adapted to MMA. that’s something I’ve put a lot of time into, just becoming less sports Jiu-Jitsu oriented and more MMA oriented, and discovered a lot of tricks to make Jiu-Jitsu more efficient to MMA.”

This is the 7th win for Drysdale with a finish (one of them being No Contest) and there’s plenty to anticipate in the future but Drysdale is determined to take his career one day at a time:

“I’m a live-in-the-moment kind of guy,” said Drysdale. “If you’re living too far ahead, you forget about the moment.

“For me to take time off from my family, my students, my seminars, my gym, and focus on a fight, it has to make sense. A lot of personal decisions that have to be made before having a two or three month camp for a fight, but I’m open. We’ll talk to some organizations and see what happens.”

You can watch the full Drysdale vs Spann fight below: