Gordon Ryan on Winning EBI, Plans To Fight MMA, And His Plans To Become The Best Submission Grappler Ever
FloGrappling senior editor Hywel Teague sat down with Gordon Ryan for an in-depth chat about:
- How everybody wrote him off before competing at EBI 6
- Dealing with competition anxiety (1:55)
- What helped him the most going into EBI 6 as an underdog (2:40)
- How his personality reflects his style of competing (3:40)
- A time when his style saw him get "viciously submitted" in a competition (4:40)
- How he spends "days and weeks" in bad positions in the gym (5:35)
- Going from purple to black belt in a year (6:08)
- Training at the Renzo Gracie academy in New York with John Danaher, Eddie Cummings and Garry Tonon (7:16)
- Training at Georges St-Pierre's home gym of Tristar in Montreal, and his plans to fight MMA (9:45)
- What he needs to do to realize his goal of becoming the best submission grappler of all-time (11:45)
- How much weight he cuts to compete (12:25)
- Which kind of tournaments and rulesets he prefers to compete in (12:58)
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