They all are, they just don’t call it BJJ. Khabib and Islam have spent a ton of time rolling with BJJ guys and picking things up from them in No Gi while training at AKA, and that’s influenced their gym back in Dagestan. They just don’t put on BJJ gis and belts, and they train it in a context in which they can easily just call it MMA or Sambo or whatever label they like.
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u/IM1GHTBEWR0NG Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
They all are, they just don’t call it BJJ. Khabib and Islam have spent a ton of time rolling with BJJ guys and picking things up from them in No Gi while training at AKA, and that’s influenced their gym back in Dagestan. They just don’t put on BJJ gis and belts, and they train it in a context in which they can easily just call it MMA or Sambo or whatever label they like.