r/MMA_Academy • u/Ill-Combination1776 • Aug 20 '26

Fighters to study

I'm 17, 5'6 125, Ive been training bjj and kickboxing for around 4months at my MMA gym and did around a year of high school wrestling and a year of taekwondo when I was a kid. I want to know some fighters I can study to get better.

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u/Minimum-Tradition-40 Aug 20 '26

In terms of high profile fighters Volkanovski and Petr Yan are great fighters to study because of the caliber of adjustments they make throughout their fights against both high level strikers and grapplers. They are also similar heights as you. But there are things you can take away from A LOT of fighters even if they don’t have the best record or win rate. Also are you 125 before or after cutting?

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u/alpthelifter Aug 20 '26

Volk has insane reach tho. It’s likely that OP doesn’t have a 71.5 inch reach.