Convince me GSP is not the GOAT?

Threetrees

Threetrees

He/Him
@plutonium
Joined
Aug 28, 2009
Messages
50,341
Reaction score
4,928
Never lost in his prime
Had one of the most dominant streaks ever
Was rarely in trouble
Fought one of the toughest strengths of schedule ever
Etc etc
 
Best resume in WW history, Best WW ever, 2 weight world champ.


Jones exists.
 
There is no argument. Jon Jones is out of the discussion for being a proven cheater.
 
Because Jon Jones, Fedor and Anderson Silva exist
 
It's not easy, and that's why it's still a discussion on here every other day.

It will come down to personal values and bias like "most spinning flying toe punches" attempted in 3mins.


I will say confidently, whoever the GOAT of this sport will be, they will have taken notes from Georges. He's an example of the foundation of a ideal MMA fighter.
 
This debate is so old... GSP has everything combined that Jones, Fedor, MM and DC have.

Beaten everyone he faced (Jones)
Long dominant win streak (Fedor and Jones)
Clean athlete (MM, DC, Fedor)
Champ Champ (DC)
Fought the best comp (Jones, DC)

26-2, both losses avenged.
Lineal WW Champ
Lineal MW Champ
Most top 5 wins in history
Most top 10 wins in history
Brought USADA / Clean athlete
Class act in and out of the octogon

True legend, no one comes close (yet).
 
Jon Jones has less losses, and a better resume.

Also, Jones would literally kill GSP if he chose to do so.
 
Arguing against gsp is hard. The only way to argue that is to promote somone as better. It’s hard to say anything bad about him
 
His second belt is less impressive when you consider he beat a half blind champion who was refusing real number 1 contenders. Add to that the fact he made up his mind before hand he would never defend because he knew he would lose. Also Tyron would likely KO him
 
"All-time" implies the future too, otherwise you're talking about the "greatest so far" or "greatest as of yet" (GAOY). He may be the greatest WW of his time, but not even now as he won't test himself vs Woodley.
 
Because he ducked 100s of better fighters by fighting at a low weight class. You can't be the "greatest of all time" when there is at least 20+ guys active and fighting in the same era that would fuck your shit up.

Weight clasesc only exist to protect smaller and weaker fighters.

You could habe a flyweight go 100-0 and it wouldn't mean shit as he would still get his shit pushed in by low tier heavyweights
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
1,236,882
Messages
55,451,138
Members
174,783
Latest member
notnormal

Share this page

Back
Top