7 best MMA moves of Brock Lesnar

#4 Old school wrestling dynamics

Ever walked into a wrestling academy?

The general approach of most wrestling coaches is that pure wrestling is enough to help you incapacitate your opponent in a fight. Most people in the wrestling community would have you believe that even though you may not be trained in any striking art, wrestling alone can help you neutralize an attacker.

Now, while most of us are well aware of the fact that grappling without basic knowledge of the striking arts usually is a recipe for disaster in an MMA fight, traditional wrestling practices such as “not shying away from placing your knee on the ground while executing the takedown”, are indeed useful in a fight.

In technical terms, a takedown can be broken down into a chain of movements—the end result of which is you attaining top position on your opponent, while the latter ends up on the bottom position on the ground.

Most MMA fighters prefer eliminating the “drop step” or in layman’s terms placing your knee on the ground during a takedown attempt—and rather choose to close the distance with strikes and then perform a snatch single or get to the clinch.

Regardless, Brock Lesnar is one who doesn’t shy away from sticking to his old school wrestling methodology—getting on his knees time and again to grab his opponent’s legs.

In fact, with his most recent MMA fight against legendary kickboxer Mark Hunt, Lesnar would end up on his knees time and again, only for Hunt to backpedal away from him due to the takedown threat.

Lesnar would eventually go on to catch Hunt’s legs/hips and then execute the takedown.