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this is just my observation and feedback, feel free to respond.
many feel johnny won the fight, and others feel gsp won. the fight was very close, could've gone either way, and even more so when the title is on the line.
here's a few points i'd like to make, just because a fighter bruises, bleeds, or cuts faster or more easily, and looks worse doesn't determine whether you won or not. visual injuries aren't a form of measurement and shouldn't be the deciding factor.
a fighter could be getting whooped, with a busted up face and in the end pull out a submission or ko/tko victory so in the end he still won the fight even though he looked worse. in terms of gsp and hendricks, judging is based on a point system and like scoring rounds for boxing the judges felt gsp scored higher than hendricks to win.
fans can't blame, boo, or bash gsp whatsoever. he put his safe play gameplan aside this fight and came in and traded with heavy handed johnny, he proved he wasn't afraid to stand and trade, he proved he has a chin, and he proved he could still come out on top. gsp took more damage when he tripped and johnny did his gnp, so that is where most of his facial damage came from.
had gsp fought like his usual play it safe style, i think he would have less damage on his face.
this fight is just like gsp/penn #1, it was a controversial win for gsp because people felt penn won including himself, and because of the damage penn did early round 1....so to me this fight was no different, gsp took more shots than normal because he didn't play safe and in some ways had to fight the way he did because of hendricks wrestling and charge forward style.
so just because the champ took damage, doesn't change that based on a point system he was awarded the win based on the judges decisions, it was a close fight but saying hendricks won because gsp's face was battered doesn't determine that he should've got the decision, also if you look at how gsp looks in some of his other fights his face is pretty much the same after each fight....hendricks had to beat the champ to become the champ, he had to either sub, ko, tko gsp or win a decision very convincingly, he did none of that.
just like penn could've been awarded the decision during there 1st fight, it could've went to johnny as well, if anyone is going to piss and moan over this fight then blame the judges, but you can't blame gsp or discredit him.
its a win regardless of what us fans think, and he proved everyone wrong, he took the extra testing, he put his play it safe strategy aside and traded with johnny, he took shots and proved he could overcome adversity, and though it was a tough and close fight gsp did win in the eyes of the judges, i think people are more surprised that he stood and took bombs, you don't get to see that often from gsp so for us fans to see gsp get abit wobbled and take heavy shots is almost shocking, and so maybe some contribute that to there reasons why they think johnny won, i personally don't. my opinion is the judges could've scored this fight either way because it was that close, but they decided gsp won based on how the system works, not based on how his faced looked afterwards.
many feel johnny won the fight, and others feel gsp won. the fight was very close, could've gone either way, and even more so when the title is on the line.
here's a few points i'd like to make, just because a fighter bruises, bleeds, or cuts faster or more easily, and looks worse doesn't determine whether you won or not. visual injuries aren't a form of measurement and shouldn't be the deciding factor.
a fighter could be getting whooped, with a busted up face and in the end pull out a submission or ko/tko victory so in the end he still won the fight even though he looked worse. in terms of gsp and hendricks, judging is based on a point system and like scoring rounds for boxing the judges felt gsp scored higher than hendricks to win.
fans can't blame, boo, or bash gsp whatsoever. he put his safe play gameplan aside this fight and came in and traded with heavy handed johnny, he proved he wasn't afraid to stand and trade, he proved he has a chin, and he proved he could still come out on top. gsp took more damage when he tripped and johnny did his gnp, so that is where most of his facial damage came from.
had gsp fought like his usual play it safe style, i think he would have less damage on his face.
this fight is just like gsp/penn #1, it was a controversial win for gsp because people felt penn won including himself, and because of the damage penn did early round 1....so to me this fight was no different, gsp took more shots than normal because he didn't play safe and in some ways had to fight the way he did because of hendricks wrestling and charge forward style.
so just because the champ took damage, doesn't change that based on a point system he was awarded the win based on the judges decisions, it was a close fight but saying hendricks won because gsp's face was battered doesn't determine that he should've got the decision, also if you look at how gsp looks in some of his other fights his face is pretty much the same after each fight....hendricks had to beat the champ to become the champ, he had to either sub, ko, tko gsp or win a decision very convincingly, he did none of that.
just like penn could've been awarded the decision during there 1st fight, it could've went to johnny as well, if anyone is going to piss and moan over this fight then blame the judges, but you can't blame gsp or discredit him.
its a win regardless of what us fans think, and he proved everyone wrong, he took the extra testing, he put his play it safe strategy aside and traded with johnny, he took shots and proved he could overcome adversity, and though it was a tough and close fight gsp did win in the eyes of the judges, i think people are more surprised that he stood and took bombs, you don't get to see that often from gsp so for us fans to see gsp get abit wobbled and take heavy shots is almost shocking, and so maybe some contribute that to there reasons why they think johnny won, i personally don't. my opinion is the judges could've scored this fight either way because it was that close, but they decided gsp won based on how the system works, not based on how his faced looked afterwards.
