{"id":198041,"date":"2016-07-05T08:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=198041"},"modified":"2016-07-05T08:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:54:27","slug":"jiu-jitsu-world-champion-shuts-down-criticism-over-conor-mcgregors-ground-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/jiu-jitsu-world-champion-shuts-down-criticism-over-conor-mcgregors-ground-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiu-Jitsu world champion: &#8220;Conor [McGregor] is amazing on the ground&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on March 5th, Conor McGregor squared off against Nate Diaz in the main event of UFC 196. In the second round, McGregor was rocked, and shot in for a takedown against Diaz, which ultimately <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-nate-diaz-submits-conor-mcgregor\/\">led to him being submitted via rear-naked choke.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the fight, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/nate-diaz-responds-to-conor-mcgregor-calling-him-a-cholo-dissing-jiu-jitsu-seminars\/\">many began criticizing McGregor<\/a> for what they believed to be a weak Jiu-Jitsu game. Ahead of his UFC 202 rematch against Nate Diaz, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-conor-mcgregor-training-bjj-world-champion\/\">McGregor brought in Jiu-Jitsu world champion Dillon Danis<\/a> to help him train for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Danis spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flograppling.com\/video\/983234-dillon-danis-on-conor-mcgregors-jiujitsu-ahead-of-ufc-202-hes-amazing-on-the-ground\" target=\"_blank\">FloGrappling<\/a> to reveal that McGregor&#8217;s ground game is actually much better than people give him credit for!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s unfair. Conor is amazing on the ground. One submission loss doesn&#8217;t mean anything. If you go to a jiu-jitsu tournament and a guy loses by submission you&#8217;re gonna say &#8216;ok that guy sucks&#8217;? It&#8217;s bullshit man. Conor is a great fighter, he&#8217;s got great jiu-jitsu. I&#8217;m having a blast here. I&#8217;m learning from him and he&#8217;s learning from me. It&#8217;s a great combo. It&#8217;s so easy to see why this guy is a champion. If you come here, you can see everything that he kinda got and he achieved, he deserves. A lot of guys you usually train with, at the end of the class, they&#8217;re tired. They say get a partner, and the guy usually gets the easier guy in the room, someone that&#8217;s not going to push them. Conor always goes for the best guy in the room. In jiu jitsu, he always calls me out. I love it. He&#8217;s the guy who always wants to go and be the best.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on March 5th, Conor McGregor squared off against Nate Diaz in the main event of UFC 196. In the second round, McGregor was rocked, and shot in for a takedown against Diaz, which ultimately led to him being submitted via rear-naked choke. 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