I trust in the process. Dricus is one of the more stronger, athletic, hard hitters at middleweight. Something that gets lost in the sauce is that even though he got dom, khmazat wasn't able to finish him off despite having the ground game all to himself
That's my takeaway as well, make no mistake DDP had no answers to Khamzat's wrestling but dude survived over 20 mins in the bottom without taking any damage or subbed, that's very impressive as well! Hope to see him back better.
He needs to stop the whole "my whole training camp is in Africa" nonsense and go to a camp with proper bjj, wrestling specialists to go get that work. Cos it clearly showed there was no one anywhere close to the level of Khamzat in his camp b4 the fight, given the ease of takedowns and the ease of holding him down there for 4.5 rounds.
He needs that Australian guy Craig Jones, who really made it work against dagi style when he trained volk. Dricus gassed out more than usual and couldn't submit chim in 5. I think it's very doable for dricus to be the champ again
Khamzat wasn’t able to finish because DDP did nothing but survive, it’s very possible he gets finished in the first if he made any attempt to get up. Not getting finished isn’t a silver lining when you got fully pinned in crucifix for multiple rounds. Nothing in that fight should make you feel hopeful, I get liking the guy but that’s simply mental gymnastics. It’s very possible he shows something different in his next fight but this is reaching at best.
Idk dude. Many people would get finished ‘just trying to survive’. Don’t act like it’s easy not to get finished… Rob was also just ‘trying to survive’ when he got subbed.
He was trying not to get subbed all he did was tuck his neck and accept the position until the round ended. Horrible performance from DDP zero urgency on the ground.
Because he shelled up and refused to take any risks to get to his feet. I'd have more respect if he gave up his back trying to get up then just lay there accepting the loss every round praying to knock him out in the 15 seconds it took for khamzat to get him down each round.
He got a lucky standup that he couldn't count on and didn't even come close to finishing him. If his best plan to win that fight was actually to get controlled for over 20 minutes that's sad and he should never get a rematch
Honestly I just don’t think he wanted to risk his first title fight. That performance while being utterly dominating wasn’t what we are used to from Khamzat, I think he was content to grind out an easy risk free win once he realised how easily he could control the ground game.
I feel like he'd need at least 2 years to build up his TDD. He was getting pancaked and controlled with ease by Brunson 2.5 years ago and tried to muscle his way out of it. Had 5 months preparing for Khamzat and seemingly barely trained TDD. None of those served as wakeup calls for him so it really depends on if he trains his TDD.
I don’t know man, it looked to me that Khamzat was not in his best shape and that’s why he went for the path of least resistance. Khamzat asked Arman in his corner after round 3 if he could do some stand up and Arman said: absolutely not. This was not the animal we say crush Whitaker’s jaw deliberately.
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u/background_action92 2d ago
I trust in the process. Dricus is one of the more stronger, athletic, hard hitters at middleweight. Something that gets lost in the sauce is that even though he got dom, khmazat wasn't able to finish him off despite having the ground game all to himself