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Craig Jones: “There’s Not A Good Sambo Guy On Earth When It Comes To Grappling Matches”

Craig Jones: “There’s Not A Good Sambo Guy On Earth When It Comes To Grappling Matches”

The “feud” between Craig Jones and sambo is already well-established, as the popular BJJ athlete rarely ever holds back his thoughts on the martial art.
However, in a recent interview with MMA Fighting, Jones decided to expand on the topic – and consider the Dagestani sambo practitioners as well.

He started off with saying that, when it comes to pure grappling matches, there’s “not a good sambo guy on Earth”:

Khabib (Nurmagomedov) started this beef and then we’ve had, in terms of pure grappling matches, there’s not a good sambo guy on Earth.

Obviously the skill set they have translates quite well to MMA, but in terms of pure grappling there are some holes in the game.
They banned rotational leg locks and things like that, so it is a limited grappling skill set.

He added that, despite all the mystique surrounding them, sambo athletes are just regular human beings – and as such, can be defeated:

I think everyone buys into the mystique of the Dagestani sambo guys, you know what I mean? Everyone.
Very rarely have you seen them cracked or put in bad positions, or anything.

So I think, as much as you want to believe they’re just human beings when you’re going in there, you have to really feel that and experience that to realize that.

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