>>747975I don't have gifs of it, but it has been done before in MMA with the men's feather weight and bantam weight, weight divisons which tends to have faster wrestlers and grapplers that thrive in fast scrambles and wrestling in the middle of the cage/ring.
And that there is the major reason why we don't see this counter used frequently in a MMA ruleset. This move is viable with open space (IE in the middle/center of the cage). With the walls in place, the opportunities to do this move is greatly decrease, unless you're insanely fast to set your defense (which most lighter weight wrestlers tend to be)
MMA wrestling has amost evolved to the point where its way different then folk style/freestyle/grecco, and its because of those damn walls.
Watch a majority of fighters, when they shoot, they drive all the way to the wall and grind them down, or defender quick steps all the way back/ reaches toward the wall to defend, and then a majority of wrestling is a battle of manipulation of the wall.
Its actually really interesting seeing grapplers rely their entire offensive play or defensive play on the wall. Its like the big leap between no gi and gi grappling, Now you have guys who are either really good at wall wrestling vs no wall wrestling.
2 grapplers who have caught my eye in terms of great wall wrestling are actually 2 BJJ players, Damain Maia and Jacare Souza. From a straight wrestling perspective their wrestling takedowns and defense are so-so to straight bad. However when you watch them wrestle using the wall or MMA wrestle its great.
A huge critizim of damian maia and alot of BJJ guys turn MMA fighters, they don't set up their shots (not using a strike to open feint like a lot of other wrestle/box spec guys) or shoot from soooo far away, whiff/get sprawed and then pull guard from bottom .
Damain Maia has what would be consider ugly wrestling but a lot of wrestling standards ,
