Jorge Masvidal is not known for his ground game prowess, and it’s evident because he has only two submission victories throughout his long career. Masvidal is someone who prefers stand up fights and goes for the head of the opponent in order to knock them out.
However, the fighter recently raised questions regarding UFC rules that favor grapplers a lot. During his visit to the ‘Joe Rogan Experience’ Masvidal mentioned that if a grappler is holding on to the leg of his opponent, the only logical way is to knee him to the face in order to get out but it is illegal by the rules.
He said: “If you are in your knees, sniffing crotches, I should be able to f***** knee you in the face. If a guy is like this and I can’t punch in the back of the head. I can’t even punch in the bottom because your face is down. The only thing logically I can do is knee you with the other knee, but they don’t let us do that. So a lot of the rules I think favor grappling in certain departments.”
Joe Rogan seconded the statement by saying that MMA tries to imitate real-life fighting and in real life grapplers in that position would definitely get kneed to the face.
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Jorge Masvidal wasn’t satisfied with his wrestling against Colby Covington
Masvidal lack of wrestling skills failed him hard in his grudge match against Colby Covington at UFC 272. Going into the fight, ‘Gamebred’ wanted to knockout Covington but the ‘Chaos’ controlled the fight from start to finish. After that loss, Covington agreed that his wrestling was bad against Covington which ultimately cost him the fight.
He said: “f***** flat in the wrestling and he jumped on it and he was able to take me down. There was like one or two times where I felt him getting really tired on the takedowns, and all of a sudden, he got that takedown. I was like stuffing the second and third attempt then on the fourth one, he got me down. He’s got good control once he’s on top.”
There are various occasions where wrestlers win fights competitively easily by just controlling their opponents throughout the fight. Even if it might not sound fair for too many but in the sport of MMA fighters are allowed to use any kind of skill to defeat their opponents.
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