Since the dawn of the sport of MMA, there has been a clash between strikers and grapplers. This stylistic battle has gone through many progressions as the sport has evolved. In the recent past, there was an era of dominant strikers. Outside of the anomalies like Georges St-Pierre (who was a striker turned grappler but that is a topic for a different day), the likes of BJ Penn, Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson, Edson Barboza, and Conor Mcgregor all dominated the Octagon. However, now there seems to be a shifting in the dominance scale.
Grappling Dominance in 2022
