Bloody Elbow has up a look at Greg Nagy’s fights and what can be taken away from watching them:
A Look At Greg Nagy’s Skills
- His striking appeared to be laughable at best. Standing up he did a lot of odd things like running forward into a punching opponent and hop up in the air.
- He seems to want to use wrestling, but lacks any strong takedowns. Mainly he looked to secure a body lock and try to press into the cage. On the occasions where he was able to get a takedown it was more on Navarro’s tripping during scrambles than anything.
- Nagy continually put himself in bad positions. He had half-guard in the first round and made no effort to avoid Navarro moving his hips and regaining guard and then quickly grabbing an arm. He stuck his head into a guillotine. He allowed Navarro to take his back on the ground and standing as well as had no defense for getting his guard passed into side control or preventing the mount once Francisco had side control.
- I should point out that I also watched Nagy’s first RITC fight against Robert Principato and he hurt Principato early with a wide right hand. He then came close to getting guillotined after pushing into the cage and attempting a double leg. Nagy then laid on top not mounting any offense, unable to pass a loose half guard until the ref stood them up. The doctor then stopped the fight on a cut suffered by Principato on the initial punch of the fight.
There is more in the actual article, but I think it’s completely fair to say that Nagy was picked specifically because he should be an easy task for someone of Herschel Walker’s athletic ability who has been training at a camp like American Kickboxing Academy.
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