How does a 145-pound grappler end up on top of another who’s 250 pounds?
Scramble, scramble, scramble.
Like the majority of his countrymen, Brazilian featherweight Yuri Alcantara doesn’t have roots in the American wrestling styles that have been so successful in MMA. Instead, the UFC 147 fighter said he practices a form of wrestling from his hometown of Marajo Island in northeast Brazil called “luta marajoara.”