>>76315215>who trained exclusively in SamboBasically no one on earth trains exclusively in sambo.
All those dudes train a lot of wrestling too. For example Makachev and Khabib et al trained at AKA and did a lot of wrestling. These guys mostly didn't start doing their signature move very much, the wrist ride, til they moved to the USA.
Pantoja is a BJJ black belt.
Merab is a BJJ purple belt under Matt Sera.
JDM and Volk have Craig Jones as one of their BJJ coaches. Volk is a BJJ black belt. JDM is a BJJ black belt.
Makachev is only a white belt in BJJ but he has Javier Mendez as his BJJ coach.
Driccus Du Plessis' BJJ coach is Morne Visser. He is only a blue belt.
Ankalaev I couldn't find anything about him doing BJJ.
Tom Aspinall is a BJJ black belt.
>>76315215>Someone like Wanderlei Silva built his career out of face-stomping and soccer-kicking floor-rollers in PRIDE.Wanderlei Silva, the BJJ black belt?
Virtually those guys who got kicked/stomped in the head while grounded were basically already TKO'd. The problem is in PRIDE the reffing sucked and they stopped it too late.
Go watch it again.
It's not guys lying to guard and then getting kicked/stomped in the head.
It's guys getting stunned and then it happens.
It is extremely difficult to kick/stomp the head of a grounded opponent who is not stunned, provided they're any good. They simply put their feet on you to stop you.
I can't say the same for knees however.
>>76314670Did that stomp even land? Hard to tell
He was dumb for not reacting. When the stomp comes he's supposed to lift his feet, and he simply chose not to.