Jake Shields is a boring fighter. He’s a damn good fighter, make no mistake, but the former Strikeforce champ has gained very few fans over the years.
Not even hanging out with Nick and Nate Diaz made Shields interesting.
A large part of that is because of his boring fighting style. The “American Jiu-Jitsu” practitioner has formidable wrestling and excellent submission skills, but minimal striking skills and is rarely able to finish fights. A bigger part of that, though, is how he’s just generally a boring dude. He’s not an ex-convict or a cocky SOB or a national hero or anything else that would get fans to rally behind or against him.
Whether you like this man or not…you’ll tune in to see him.
That changed today, if only a little, at a BJJ competition. So what happened that suddenly made Jake Shields, of all people, interesting? Find out on the next page.
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