Normally I'd agree, but Dillon comes from Marcelo Garcia's academy and there's a strong emphasis among all of MG's athletes on pressure top game, strong wrestling and quick movement on the bottom to unbalance and regain the top. To me, that's as much refinement as Conor needs. While having a BJJ for MMA coach is ideal, he already has Kavanagh for that and he's a very good BJJ player and instructor as well as a former fighter.'Really, well what is his BJJ for MMA like Dillon?'
That was a hypothetical follow up question from me to Dillon after I read him saying how good Mc BJJ is....
My immediate thought was 'how is this guys opinion on Conor's BJJ relevant to an MMA fight with Nate?'...
really, I am just perplexed at why Conor would go this route when bringing in new trainers.....just kind of poking fun at how completely irrelevant Dillon's opinion on Conor's sport JJ is, which is the only expert opinion he can have.
There are dozens of elite, proven BJJ for MMA guys that would love that job - he brought in a sport JJ guy from a sport JJ school/lineage to help him with his BJJ for MMA - I don't get it, at all. It screams Touchbutt 2.0
I consider what Danis is doing like an NBA player working with a shot doctor or an MLB player working with a hitting coach. He's refining key weaknesses in bad positions and shoring up his ability to get to dominant ones. It's not like most boxing or kickboxing coaches have fought MMA so it's not that big a deal.