New Killer in the UFC? Robert Drysdale signs

Little Bobby Drysdale is set to make his UFC debut on August 3rd after being added to their light heavyweight division a couple weeks ago.  Who is he you ask?  Come on now, you hopefully don’t consider yourself a fan then.

I am excited to see how he does.  That particular division has probably one of the most dynamic fighter in Jon Jones sitting atop it currently.  After having 6 pro fights, Drysdale, all ending with 6 first round submissions, can his striking defense even simply hang?  I have seen two of his fights and they were both the standard get a hold of the guy, get him down, and submit him.  I enjoyed them, they were very effective.  I just don’t think it will work at the highest level quite yet.

from cagepotato.com

I sure hope it does because Robert Drysdale is one of the few big dudes that brings it grappling.  He is an ADCC champion, submitting Marcelo Garcia even.  Which you can probably see from this picture.  He is a big boy though, apprently only 205 now though.

Drysdale’s got an interesting story or background.  Rather than me tell it, I think I’ll let wiki do the heavy lifting for me.  If you like, you can click here to check out his wiki entry.  Or you can just listen to me paraphrase.

He moved to Brazil when he was 6 with his Brazilian mother and American father, moving back as a young man for college.  He began training bjj in 1998, moving back to Brazil in 2000 to focus on training.  He got his submission win over Marcelo in 2007 while on the way to winning the open division title.

So yeah, I’m pretty jazzed up to see how he does inside THE OCTAGON.  I think he can easily submit over 3/4 of the fighters in there but will his perhaps unpolished striking allow him to get the fight there?  What do you think?

Here is his twitter handle in case you’d like to follow him – @DrysdaleBJJ  I think his gym follows me but not him directly.  What up with that?  How do you think he’ll do in the UFC?  How do you hope he does?  Would you like to see big success or a big flop?  I think total ownage or domination by Drysdale could do wonder for bjj.  It would once again explode in popularity which lets the sport grow for the rest of us.

Below is the link to where I saw the story, thought I’d give credit where very little credit is due.  That site outranks me in the biggest of ways and it puts up high quality content such as that.  Fair times.

BJJ ace Robert Drysdale signs with the UFC MMA News | Mixed …

http://www.bjpenn.comWed, 05 Jun 2013 12:20:54 GMT

Brazilian jiu-jitsu whiz Robert Drysdale has joined the UFC light heavyweight roster. Drysdale, who has won a world grappling title, will make his.

 

New Killer in the UFC? Robert Drysdale signs