A lot of new mma fighters only go into an mma gym and learn what those gyms teach them. Most of what they learn is Boxing, Kickboxing, and wrestlnig or Jiujitsu.
A lot of fighters are different and some of these new ones are learning more than what they learned in MMA and are having a LOT of success now.
What Jacob said. (Too fresh here, so can't vote his answer up. But the tactical aspects he touched upon are pretty much it.)
i find both striking guys and jit guys find it hard to transition to american wrestling
but not the others u said to a lesser extent
I find it kind of peculiar that kickboxers tend to be more Jiu-Jitsu oriented in their grappling/ground game and vice versa; Jiu-Jitsu guys tend to favor kickboxing. Examples of these types of fighters include Carlos Condit, Jose Aldo, Anthony Pettis, Donald Cerrone, etc. Wrestlers tend to be more boxing-centered when it comes to stand-up fighting and vice versa. Examples include Eddie Alvarez, Frankie Edgar, Jake Ellenberger, Cain Valasquez, etc. I just really noticed that there aren't a whole lot of boxing/jiu-jitsu guys (ex. Nick Diaz) and there aren't a lot of wrestlers who excel at kickboxing (ex. Georges St. Pierre). They are just less common. Anyone else find this kind of funny and why is this the case? I do Muay Thai and Jiu-Jitsu myself and I just find that this is an interesting trend in MMA.