EA Sports UFC 2 Ground Fighter Ratings Revealed

[Serengeti1]

Quote: Originally Posted by fballturkey

I think Gunnar took too much of a hit for the Maia fight. It's Maia, he does it to everyone. Nick I honestly don't know enough about his ground game to say.

Yeah def could have been the Maia fight but as you said he does that to everyone. There's even a video of Frank Mir (former heavyweight champion known for great BJJ) talking about Maia raping him on the mat. Even uses that phrasing haha. At least Maia has a high rating.

As for Nick, he's a 3rd degree black belt under Cesar Gracie. Tells you all you need to know.

[JoeMimic]

CM Punk and Woodley have the same ground rating c'mon now.

[jeremym480]

Quote: Originally Posted by fballturkey

The problem with an overall ground rating is that it's taking into account ability to transition, ability to block transitions, submissions and ability to get out of submissions, and probably some of the physical attributes like stamina thrown in as well. So yeah, the OVR or the overall for ground/clinch/SU doesn't necessarily mean that much to how the fighter will actually do on the ground. I agree that Werdum was robbed though. Edit: I think I read that takedowns are under Clinch now but I could be wrong.

Yeah, I just checked and attributes are way different/more in depth this year. Here's what Woodley' ground stats looked in UFC 1 vs UFC 2.

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[fballturkey]

I wouldn't call it way more in depth. They added GnP and top/bottom but the submission stuff was just moved over from the old 'submissions' bucket they got rid of when they added clinch. It's nice that fighters have separate top and bottom ratings though.

[thegut]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeremym480

Yeah, I just checked and attributes are way different/more in depth this year. Here's what Woodley' ground stats looked in UFC 1 vs UFC 2. Attachment 117078 Attachment 117079 Here's CM attributes for comparison Attachment 117080

So EA feels that a 37 year old WWE star that has zero MMA fights under his belt would be better at submission defense then a 15-3 Woodley that has never been submitted? Also CM Punk is better off his back when Woodley has 6 submission victories to Punk's 0?

[BDKiiing]

Quote: Originally Posted by thegut

So EA feels that a 37 year old WWE star that has zero MMA fights under his belt would be better at submission defense then a 15-3 Woodley that has never been submitted? Also CM Punk is better off his back when Woodley has 6 submission victories to Punk's 0?

Probably not. Probably just giving him half *** ratings because how much of a draw he is, and it'd be stupid to make him unusable.