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Going through both of their records, Merab and Khabib are both Judo black belts, as well as accomplished combat, Sambo practitioners. (Merab took silver at the worlds and I believe Khabib won Gold.)

I can’t find anywhere that says both men either competed in freestyle wrestling or have a freestyle wrestling background. So why do we keep referring to their base art as wrestling?

Is it because it’s more of an umbrella term because the eastern block competitors train, judo, Sambo, and wrestling hand-in-hand ? We are just dumb Americans who are misinformed?

So I see a lot online other martial artists slating the pinning aspect of competitive judo.

However, if you think about it it’s actually a really key transferable skill for MMA too. If you look at high level grapplers in the UFC for example Islam Makhachev (I know he’s base is sambo but that takes inspo from judo and he is also a judo black belt). He’s not always hunting submissions, a lot of the time he’s pinning opponents to the ground and controlling them to find angles to land strikes or tire out his opponent. So it’s actually a very useful thing to drill not just for competitions.

I see it get grilled a lot but personally can’t see why. Thoughts?

Edit: just to clarify I mean the 10 second rule in competition not just pure osaekomi.