All BJJ / Grappling advocates around the world enjoyed how Fabricio Werdum brought the great Fedor to submission.
The Gracie Academy in Torrance, California went a step further and made a small video presenting their analysis of what went down. You can find that here.
I really enjoy these analysis vids and it would be awesome if more instructors did similar ones.
As you all know, I'm not a huge follower of MMA, but when legends meet, you gotta watch it!
I love Fedor for many reasons, but Werdum is just of such a high caliber and he went in with a BJJ / Grappling mindset and caught him. It doesn't take away from Fedor, but it really did warm my heart to see a very technically tight submission win the day.
It's also worth mentioning that Werdum moved away from Brazil as kid with nothing but a blue belt in BJJ training-wise. He moved with his mom to Madrid, Spain and ended up training with Judo. Yes he went back to Brazil every year and worked some BJJ / Grappling there but that's hardly regular training. It just gives us a lot of hope. It also goes to show you don't need a Black Belt world champion instructor all the time to achieve greatness. You need to train smart and to have high work ethics.
