Originally Posted by
Vaughany
Ebersole hedged with TJ Sub or other way round seems solid to me depending on the odds. Ebersole has spent last two weeks training at Drysdale's sharpening up his ground game...rolling with likes of Forrest Griffin every day. He has also had Ben Stark (American Top Team black-belt) travelling with him all camp (from Thailand to Fiore's in Illinois). Ebersole has a tendency to get in to bad spots...especially the guillotine. He has claimed that he does it on purpose as he is confident in defending, like against Hallman I believe where he got out and proceeded to GnP Hallman to stoppage. Chris Lytle had him in a tight guillotine at least twice if I remember rightly and wasn't able to tap him. CLaude Patrick is also has pretty slick BJJ and had no success. So it's not like Ebersole has only been facing strikers or anything. I think Ebersole will look to keep this standing for majority of rounds and only take it to the ground if really necessary, which is what he's said in other words what he plans to do. I think the clinch and landing knees against the cage will be one of his main strategies in the stand-up. As he's said "once a black-belt gets hit he turns to a brown-belt, once a brown-belt gets hit he turns to purple-belt" and I think this may well happen once TJ get's grinded on against the cage