I know the feeling first hand brother! Now that you mention it, I do remember Yves just kind of turtled in the guard, not offering much resistance. But that makes sense if you're trying to recover. Man Yves and Hominick, 2 fighters that I always love to watch but always fell short of their true potential.
Even with the smaller arenas, the old events seem to have super passionate fans. I' suggest you rematch Chuck vs Randy 1 at UFC 43. Holy fucking fucksacks dude. That entire building sounded like it was shaking.
Already rewatched it, I'm going back on Fight Pass and watching every show from the beginning of the Zuffa era. And you ain't lyin' Chuck vs Randy 1 was pandemonium! You could feel it even through the computer screen.
He has done that in almost every one of GSP's fights. Always said the opponent was on another level, like Mayhem's grappling. Georges would usually prove Rogan wrong and sometimes did it while Joe was in mid-sentence.
I think the Mayhem and Parysian fights were the most egregious in that way
Being that they're both fresh in my mind I can speak to this, the Karo fight Joe was bad. The Mayhem fight Joe came off like Mayhem was gonna dole out his retribution for making Rogan sound stupid for how he called the Karo fight lol. Seriously, Rogan literally was just slobbing all over Mayhem's knob, saying GSP had nothing for Miller on the ground, then GSP would proceed to alternate between crushing and dominating Mayhem in every area, most notably on the ground where most of the fight took place. Just watched that fight last week, and I couldn't believe how bad Joe was not only talking Mayhem up, but even worse how he almost in a dismissive matter of fact tone wrote GSP off. He was really bad in GSP's debut against Jay Heiron too, it's just really strange because Joe had no problem singing the praises of David Loiseau and Patrick Cote both of whom not only lost their debuts, but in Cote's case went 0'fer until he made his way back into the UFC via TUF The Comebacks. But GSP who was clearly elite and wrecking everyone, he would dismiss and openly root for whoever his opponent was lol.
But in your sig, what is Conor's 3 title fight? Aldo 1, Alvarez 2, who is #3?
Franklin made The Crow look tiny, after a few landed strikes and throws plus being man handled on the ground and against the cage you could see David visibly wilt. There was at least one 50-43 scorecard.
I was laughing my ass off reading this because you are absolutely right. We already know Joe loves BJ but he also just loves submission guys in general like Mayhem and Karo. Karo had that amazing Kimura on Dave Strasser so Joe was probably on his nuts since then.
Chuck over Vitor and its not even close.
