I taped this fight in detail twice now, once for Drakos Contender debut and then for this fight originally. Could not get a read on him for contender as legit every single opponent on the regionals runs in, takes him down with ease and then gets subbed. Even his one loss to Graverly, he kept getting wrestled until he got GNPed in the championship rounds. So im thinking this guy is clearly a jits player, yet everyone keeps forcing the takedown? Don't even know if he can throw a punch. Then on the contender he throws a nice combination, which forces his opponent who was meant to be a thai fighter, to shoot and get triangled.
Upon second taping for this fight, I found out Drako has a boxing background, probably why everyone shoots on him. Zahabi has awesome Jits defence and framing, he is always super composed when in danger. Even against Ramos, from memory I think he was getting onto his back and he striped him off so clean it was like a jits repellant lol. He is obviously very technical. My only problem with Zahabi is his output, and not knowing exactly how good Drakos standup is. Also if Zahabi wrestles, its a clear path as Drako has awful TDD. Lots of unknowns and originally I was ok passing at those odds, but that wide line keeps staring at me.