Pablo Popovitch vs Ben Askren | 2009 ADCC World Championship

[@Bazluu]

Ben thought not washing his feet would be his protection from leglocks

[@kristiannoetorres]

Lol

[@zBryRobinson]

Waited 12 years to upload a 1 min video

[@douglasharley2440]

they just found it in the basement.

[@organiced9805]

Lmao

[@jamesschoolcraft1966]

Beautiful sweep from deep half. Ill be working this in the gym for sure.

[@hoyinlee6804]

Pablo popovitch is the best

[@ryand4940]

Deep half!!

[@douglasharley2440]

ben askren: what are these things dangling below my hips???...nevermind.

[@InvisibleHotdog]

👏👏👏 guard pulling is for white belts 👏👏👏

[@unadulteratedtruth8716]

Popovitch was on a roll back then. Ben act like he didn't know legs were in play.

[@ryannardozzi6568]

Leg locks are probably the biggest weakness to wrestlers to join jui jitsu later on

[@unadulteratedtruth8716]

@@ryannardozzi6568 Exactly.... Leg locks in the early 2000's were the same to wrestlers as armbars and triangles were in the very early UFCs. They would tap and emerge with this look like "WTF was that!!!" (See Dan Severn, Kenny Monday, Royce Alger) How the sport has progressed!!!

[@derekbk9093]

Does anyone know what happened to Pablo? Completely disappeared after the Silva incident

[@hoyinlee6804]

Pablo with silva ex wife moved to Dubai after incident,

[@antti3779]

is that bruce buffer?

[@Longevitystrengthcoach]

Yes

[@Longevitystrengthcoach]

He announced last ADCC aswell 2022

[@comprasnanet6143]

Detalhe importante

[@robertmaxwell2596]

Askrens feet compared to the other guys

[@TrinimanLarge]

Getting finished quick is his specialty. Boom roasted.

[@jakebad8334]

Why his feet so dirty

[@walid3207]

Disgusting indeed

[@bryanthanos7871]

Askren should have used his free leg to kick off the hand on the top of his foot

[@hamiltonm4463]

Popovich lose to Marcelo after right?

[@TrinimanLarge]

Popovich lost to Jake Paul in the finals

[@konradbox2399]

If Askren had stuck to pure grappling he could've been something special. Would've been interesting to see.

[@BMB57]

He essentially did lmao. Even in a sport where he could strike he still did

[@andrewcassidy3893]

Your comment confuses me... he dominated college wrestling (one of a handful of wrestlers to ever win the Hodge twice) and made the Olympic team (no small task in the USA), then fell short at the Olympics. He was asked if he just needed more freestyle experience and responded no, that he just wasn't good enough at freestyle... I think he summed it up by saying, "I sucked." I think he already was something special and his "funk" style was very interesting to watch, though he seemed to agree with you and not me. But I don't think he was going to improve on what he already did...

[@konradbox2399]

@@andrewcassidy3893 Obviously he's a legend in wrestling. When I say grappling I meant no gi bjj

[@InvisibleHotdog]

Being a good MMA fighter is worth a lot more in respect and money than being special at guard pulling and buttscooting

[@KingLouieJones]

He was something special in MMA

[@bh8483]

Flintstone feet

[@funzflo9029]

Booom roasted

[@Pain3jj]

20 seconds in askrens feet are so dirty

[@fredsamuels6407]

Honestly ben should have stuck to grappling he would have been a bigger star me thinks

[@dubstepXpower]

Nar grappling isn't that big and it's hard to make money. He was champion in ONE and probably made more

[@fredsamuels6407]

@@dubstepXpower but he wouldn't have taken the damage he has to get there like he has in mma. He could have competed more times a year than in mma. Comparatively would have equaled out maybe?

[@Oldhandlewasabitcringe]

@@fredsamuels6407 ben askren wouldnt have been able to make half of what he made from mma. Even the top bjj guys make no money from competition

[@markhill8150]

He should have stayed in ONE.

[@KG-ii2yx]

@@markhill8150 yea where he was crushing cans, im glad he came to the ufc and got his mediocre ass exposed, masvidal KO is on my wallpapper lol