payneNglory1 wrote:I agree Mousasi has the better stand up,but that's obvious,he comes from a boxing,kick boxing background and has been honing his boxing skills for about 10+ years,while Davis has probably 3-4 years training stand up.
The thing is,I believe Davis's main strength is a more successful base to start of with in MMA compared to Mousasi's (I'm not ignoring Mousasi's Judo background either)and i think Davis has better facilities,training and sparring partners in the states to forward his career compared to Mousasi.
Also Davis is obviously a very talented athelete,which there still isn't really that many of in this sport yet,who seems to be like a sponge when it comes to learning the things he needs to,I mean under Lloyd Irvin tutelage,the guy won a No Gi BJJ world championship after only a short time learning the sport and we saw what he did to Boetsch,a powerful move that many BJJ blackbelts would of been proud of pulling off.
You also have to think that with the skills he already possesses,his stand up doesn't need to all of a sudden become that of a k1 level striker,I mean lil Nog has a solid boxing background,but davis was comfortable enough to stay out of trouble and dictate where he wanted the fight to take place.
He just needs to be good enough to be comfortable in the stand up,anything more than that would be a great bonus,and I believe his stand up will improve drastically over the next couple of years.
I'd say Mousasi has more work to do on his takedown defense than Davis needs to on his stand up.
As Chael Sonnen would say, winning a No Gi BJJ BLUE BELT world championship is like getting a free toy with your happy meal.
Put any good wrestler, doesn't even have to be a great one, in that setting and they will walk through the competition and barely break sweat. You don't need submission skills to win that, you need control and takedowns and you'll win on points. Especially against a bunch of big slow novice HWs with limited grappling experience.
Wouldn't agree that Davis has better training facilities. Neither Gym he trains at is particularly fantastic in terms of facilities. Red Devil and Golden Glory are much better gyms. And in terms of sparring partners Fedor and Gokhan Saki or Gustaffson and Vera, Hmmmm.......No contest.