Why did GSP decide to move up and un-retire only AFTER Bisping won the lottery?

[LilNicky95]

The masses were clamoring for Georges to move up and face Anderson when they were both at the top...but Pierre had no interest.

When Weidman and Luke were the MW champs, did not hear a peep.

However when Left Eye Larry shocked the world and got the belt, GSP suddenly appeared.



Guess Georges just wanted a “real challenge”...eh??

 

[Young Joe]

GSP cherry picking the one eyed 39 year old confirmed what we already knew. That GSP ducked Silva for 10 years across multiple weight classes.

This.

 

[ShreddinMMA]

You make a disturbing number of posts about GSP. Just accept you think he's the GOAT and move on already,

 

[Shaddows]

meh.
He saw an opportunity.
Why fault the men?
This is the same as Conor forfeiting FW belt to get a shot at the LW belt, then forfeiting the LW belt for a shot at boxing ($$$$$)... You can't blame them for taking care of their own interests.

The maximum you can blame is the UFC for allowing their own greed over the sport of MMA.

 

[TheItalianStallion]

Easy matchup to become a double champ, make history against a PPV draw. Why does this trigger people so much? Who should he have come back against Anderson who Bisping had already beat? Cryron who had the consensus worst title fight of all time up until Romero vs Adesanya and has shit PPV numbers?

 

[LilNicky95]

You make a disturbing number of posts about GSP. Just accept you think he's the GOAT and move on already,

Sure buddeh....

 

[ShreddinMMA]

 

[accolyte1022]

You make a disturbing number of posts about GSP. Just accept you think he's the GOAT and move on already,

Nah, he makes shit stirring threads. GSP happens to be a "good" topic.

 

[LilNicky95]

“Teh Goat”???

 

[Intellidamus]

GSP cherry picking the one eyed 39 year old confirmed what we already knew. That GSP ducked Silva across multiple weight classes for 10 years.

“Multiple weight classes” Silva had as much interest of going to 170 as GSP did of going to 185. Catch weight was discussed and UFC had no interest in GSP’s enhanced testing request. It was also in consideration prior to Weidman kicking Silva’s ass and then making it less marketable.

 

[ShreddinMMA]

“Teh Goat”???

You're the one making multiple threads about him regularly.

He takes up a lot of your mental capacity clearly, just like a GOAT would.

 

[LilNicky95]

Nah, he makes shit stirring threads. GSP happens to be a "good" topic.

Appreciate the clarity and you are correct.

But I laugh at any scoundrel that refers to a greasing, point fighter as “the GOAT”.

 

[dildos]

Goat shit.

GSP also destroyed bisping, who happened to destroy Anderson.

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[Doctor Lenovo]

The opportunity was like playing the lottery when you have been told the winning numbers, and all you have to do is call them out.

Outside the built-in risks of MMA fighting, GSP risk NOTHING fighting Bisping, but the potential rewards of win were way too high to pass on.

GSP said it himself. Bisping's stock was high, but cheap to obtain. A no brainer buy-cheap-and-sell-high scenario.

 

[Dirge]

The masses were clamoring for Georges to move up and face Anderson when they were both at the top...but Pierre had no interest.

When Weidman and Luke were the MW champs, did not hear a peep.

However when Left Eye Larry shocked the world and got the belt, GSP suddenly appeared.



Guess Georges just wanted a “real challenge”...eh??

GSP joined the USADA testing pool while Rockhold was champ. Do you think he knew that somehow Bisping would become champ? Because if so he was the only person on the planet that thought Bisping would ever be a champ.

Those aliens must have given him psychic powers.

 

[PAPERCLIP30]

It was a year and a half after Bisping won the belt, no? It’s not like it was the day after.

 

[Doctor Lenovo]

Goat shit.

GSP also destroyed bisping, who happened to destroy Anderson.

<Lmaoo><45><Lmaoo><45><Lmaoo><45>

Anderson actually KO'd Bisping in the fight. Herb Dean was shambolic in that sequence.

 

[CBohl]

Goat shit.

GSP also destroyed bisping, who happened to destroy Anderson.

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Bisping "destroyed" Anderson

 

[El General]

“Teh Goat”???

Anderson Silva lost to Daiju Takase and Chonan to put things in perspective.

It’s possible to like GSP and Anderson. I do. In all honesty, I’d rather have GSPs career though. Minus Jones, almost every goat has an embarrassing loss. And even as illegitimate as it was, the hammer has a win over him lol

 

[OneToughCookie]

GSP saw a chance to face and beat a fighter who previously beat Silva. Maybe in his prime it appears that GSP was ducking Silva but I believe GSP had a good chance to win that fight.