nakahara comes from a pure karate background and yet was able to beat a pretty good judoka in dong in only his 2nd fight and he gave sakuraba a lot of problems in only his 1st fight.
i think he'll be able to fend off any subs ryo has and he'll prove difficult to hold down in the event he's taken down.
for a guy that only recently has started training mma, nakahara has taken to it very well.
Well , he has bunch of people who do BJJ being brazilian-japanese just like Machida . He had very solid sprawl , both Dong and Oyama aren't the best out there but they have good ground game and both struggled to take him down , even in the clinch a judo guy like Dong couldn't trip him down and when he got him there he wasn't able to keep him down and Andrews escaped the pattented Dongbar without any trouble . Also Oyama rolled for a kneebar on him kind of what Chonan did to Anderson Silva and Andrews quickly stepped out and in to blast him away before he got a chance to get up.
Chonan has clearly better striking than both Dong and Oyama BUT it's not in his best interests to try it with a guy like Andrews who is one of the best strikers in Japan atm , his lowkicks are very heavy , awesome highkicks arsenal and solid hands as well plus he is much taller than Chonan and has long ass legs and arms , also a naturally guy I believe .
The only question here is if Chonan's wrestling is good enough to pin this guy down , I am not so sure . Sakuraba got him in his first fight but Andrews was winning the close fight and lasted over 8 mins in the MMA debut against the most experienced japanese MMA fighter with very good wrestling and submissions arsenal .
I have a feeling Andrews might have problems defending lets say a rear naked choke but not so much with armbars or anything else .
) ....but at almost 2-1,i wouldn`t blame you for taking a shot...didi is 3" taller...
