Conor McGregor Doesn't Have 'Bad Grappling'

Conor McGregor is often criticised for his grappling, but there's no evidence that that's true. In fact, there's evidence that it's not.

What do you think? Is Conor McGregor's grappling as bad as people say? Or do you agree that it's actually quite good, but not good enough to compete with guys like Khabib?

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[TheMMAMovement]

What do you think? Is Conor McGregor's grappling as bad as people say? Or do you agree that it's actually quite good, but not good enough to compete with guys like Khabib?

[Delboy]

He's held his own against everyone in the ufc as far as I can remember except for diaz and khabib but even in them bouts he had his moments..
Nobody wants to see past that left hand and give him his dues for being a good all round mixed martial artist
because that's what he is!..

[nafisrehman]

-Bad in Ground and Pound
-Not much stamina as a Catch Wrestler or BJJ guy should have
- Only 1 RNC in entire MMA career
-Only 4 Losses and all 4 were simple submissions by 4 different opponents
After all I doubt:- Was John Kavanagh paid to promote Conor to brown belt? I am confident enough to ask this as recently BJJ Heroes or BJJ Eastern Europe wrote a blog showing a 35 year old being promoted to 9° grau in BJJ which is pretty maddening. I have seen many more such cheatings in other blogs not gonna lie. Firaz Zahabi had a talk on these

[kevinbarry]

Agree. Think he has the basic fundamentals of defending TDs. Even watching his fight against Hill in CWs, his TDD is solid - he showed good scrambles in that fight & against Silver, yeah, he's not a Khabib or Mendes, but he's not like a fish flopping on his back as a lot of people proclaim.

[adz]

His grappling is what it needs to be for the calibre of fighter that he is of, but it's not good enough for him to be successful as he needs to be in the grappling to beat someone who has great takedowns and top control like Khabib for example.

[jojofan]

Why doesn’t conor bring in some Olympic wrestlers and the best ju jitsu guys for a few years then challenge khabib

[ayepweakly]

Not bad but he will loose everytime to good grapplers everytime