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Old 10-28-2009, 01:38 AM   #1 (permalink)

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2004 Olympic Wrestling Silver medalist Stephen Abas first time sub grappling-vid
YouTube - Justin Gigliotti vs Stephan Abas

What do you guys think? Does he have a future in MMA? He is one of my all time favourite wrestlers ever. I love his explosive, slick, aggressive style. He's probably the best wrestler to ever come out of California. He has some pretty crazy kicks, because he is a Capoeira guy too. Im sure he can pick the Muay Thai/Striking up faster than other athletes who have never trained striking before. There has never been a lightweight UFC fighter that has his wrestling credentials.

Incase some of you who don't know who im talking about. Here are some of his credentials/highlights.
-3 Time Cali State hs school champ
-3 time NCCA champ
-Jr World champ
-2004 Olympic Silver medalist
-2008 Olympic trials runnerup- lost 2 out of 3 matches against Henry Cejudo with no ACL. Cejudo went on to win gold in Beijing. But to win 1 match against Cejudo with NO ACL shows you how tough/skilled this guy is.

Cejudo/Abas Series HL here
YouTube - 55kg/121 lbs Cejudo vs Abas Highlights

Here are some of his college highlights
Abas Highlights | broadbandsports.com
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Anyone who is Olympic lvl wrestler could have a future in mma imo. With his work ethic/experience cutting weight/obvious skillset I'm sure he can go far.
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Holy crap thank you for this.

Abas has most definitely been training for a while, but he still has some wrestling tendencies.

He literally just laid in mount and went for a headlock choke.
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YouTube - Justin Gigliotti vs Stephan Abas

What do you guys think? Does he have a future in MMA? He is one of my all time favourite wrestlers ever. I love his explosive, slick, aggressive style. He's probably the best wrestler to ever come out of California. He has some pretty crazy kicks, because he is a Capoeira guy too. Im sure he can pick the Muay Thai/Striking up faster than other athletes who have never trained striking before. There has never been a lightweight UFC fighter that has his wrestling credentials.

Incase some of you who don't know who im talking about. Here are some of his credentials/highlights.
-3 Time Cali State hs school champ
-3 time NCCA champ
-Jr World champ
-2004 Olympic Silver medalistAbas is def
-2008 Olympic trials runnerup- lost 2 out of 3 matches against Henry Cejudo with no ACL. Cejudo went on to win gold in Beijing. But to win 1 match against Cejudo with NO ACL shows you how tough/skilled this guy is.

Cejudo/Abas Series HL here
YouTube - 55kg/121 lbs Cejudo vs Abas Highlights

Here are some of his college highlights
Abas Highlights | broadbandsports.com
Abas was def one of the most fun wrestlers to watch but saying he is the best to ever come out of Cali is a bit of an overstatement.

I think Mark and Dave Schultz fight for that claim.
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Tremendous potential but probably too small for the UFC. He wrestled at 121 lbs just last year
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and he is no spring chicken...
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Abas was something special in high school. I remember watching him, absolute take-down machine. He wrestled in the early to mid 90s.
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Abas was something special in high school. I remember watching him, absolute take-down machine. He wrestled in the early to mid 90s.
This is my favorite wrestling highlight.

Too bad they took the music off.

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Abas is a cool guy, he instructed a camp I went to back in HS. Def has the talent to make some noise.
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I think coming out of HS, he was the best Wrestler California has ever produced.
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