Even the second-best provider of UFC champions is the other main grappling discipline – Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Of the 83 champions crowned by the UFC to date, well over half came from a background in grappling.Īnd most of that half will have taken up wrestling as their dominant martial art before moving into MMA – a higher proportion than any other discipline to find success in the sport. This has leveled the playing field across the various inter-disciplines and made for real entertaining fights to watch and bet on.ĭue to the now more even contests, thanks to fighters learning many of the 15 disciplines involved, you can sometimes find it tough to bet on MMA as the fights can be very close to call.īut you will be able to find the best UFC fight odds to help you decide on a fight winner, or even an overall winner, with the likelihood that they will have come from a strong wrestling background.

However, with the fast-paced growth of the sport in the past decade attracting fighters from all kinds of training backgrounds there is now a far more varied output to MMA. A lot of other fighters would only have learnt the wrestling aspect of MMA in older years, having trained in one or two combat disciplines such as kick-boxing, jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai prior to that.

Most effective wrestling moves