Hey I think it's a great accomplishment but it's not the same as gsp going up to 185 for example. Conor was the lw champ for cage warriors coming into the UFC at fw. Those are the three simutanious two division champs. Of the 3 George's is really the only one who went up a division. The other two just went back to their divsion.
Cormier's the height of GSP. His wrestling was also effective against Anderson.
Silva fought dc at lhw on 2 days notice at what 42? Me and the dude i qouted were talking prime silva vs prime gsp. Were talking gsp vs silva not silva vs lutter, sonnen, nor dc.
You said because GSP doesn't have leverage his wrestling wouldn't be effective against Anderson. Why ignore the evidence against it? Ryo Chonan also got 7 minutes of top control on Anderson despite being much smaller and much worse. That was close to Anderson's prime, as was the 1st round of Hendo.
You must mean Takase or Azeredo on top...You said cause GSP doesn't have leverage his wrestling wouldn't be effective against Anderson. Why ignore the evidence against it? Ryo Chonan also got 8 minutes of top control on Anderson despite being much smaller and much worse. That was close to Anderson's prime, as was the 1st round of Hendo.
Andy is just vulnerable to takedowns in general. Prime or otherwise. Height advantage or not. It's not a mystery.
Maybe them as well.
Don't see it happening. The areas where Silva has been weakest are gsp strengths and gsp is better at those thongs then those that have troubled silva. If they fought gsp would set the pace since anderson never does. Anderson does well when he can easily avoid hos opponent and take the time to pick them apart. Gsp has never let that happen to him. Gsp hasn't had issues with strikers before and would have no trouble taking Silva down. Unless Silva came out guns blazing with some fancy strike there's no way he'd beat gsp. Conor would have a better chance beating gsp honestly
We each are entitled to opinion and gsp has been in my eyes the most well rounded fighter in mma, he could take silva down and win the match. I just think silvas movement would give st pierre alot of trouble along with the size and striking ability. Gsp and his team were gameplanners, they looked at alot of tape and they saw something in silva that most of us do when we see him fight, they avoided it for a reason. Gsp might win a tough fight against silva, he would run right thru conor.
Hes 1 of the better takedown defenders in actuality. Gsp might get in on that and grab him but thats not his style, hes a shooter giving silva the oppurtunity of a sprawl. Gsp is smart, he wouldnt want to end up in sprawl with silva on top, at the same time he would have a tough time getting inside of silva. Its winnavle for both and easy for neither.You said cause GSP doesn't have leverage his wrestling wouldn't be effective against Anderson. Why ignore the evidence against it? Ryo Chonan also got 7 minutes of top control on Anderson despite being much smaller and much worse. That was close to Anderson's prime, as was the 1st round of Hendo.
Andy is just vulnerable to takedowns in general. Prime or otherwise. Height advantage or not. It's not a mystery.
I actually think the DC/ Silva fight looks bad for DC because he obviously didn’t go for it against Silva.
Too much Hespect. Regardless that fight should be irrelevant to how a full camp fight between the two pre leg break would of went down considering all circumstances.
