Did GSP get heat like Jon Jones for ducking entire MW division?

[koa pomaikai]

Did GSP get as much heat as Jones for hand-picking Bisping, promising to not retire, and then ducking entire MW division?

Or is it just bias against Jones for refusing Aspinall?

Did Sherdog treat GSP with same energy?

 

[AmonTobin]

 

[TrueBias]

Yeah he got shit for it. We cried, pissed, and moaned. We survived.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Weak troll attempt

 

[FilipEmoFights]

No think of it like this

Imagine Jon fights Tom and it goes to decision
Watching the fight, it appears Tom is getting the better of it and Jon is beat up while Tom’s face looks fine
Then they announce Jon the winner and he says he’s taking a break or maybe retiring

This is what GSP did to Johnny Hendricks although Jon has had two close scenarios like this with the Gus and Reyes fights

GSP lost a fight, somehow won it, and then left the sport lol that was before even screwing over the middleweights (but we didn’t wanna see GSP fight Yoel anyway right?)

 

[Bob Sagat]

Did GSP get as much heat as Jones for hand-picking Bisping

iirc gsp and bisping fought because whittaker got injured
you should be thanking gsp every day you're alive for saving mw from bisping dodging contenders and taking money fights for a year and a half

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

He got criticism but not anywhere near as much because he didnt stick around holding up the division for years by sitting at home with the belt and making BS defences while shamelessly ducking obvious contenders because they "dont add anything to his legacy" and "havent done anything".

 

[ChickenBrother]

iirc gsp and bisping fought because whittaker got injured
you should be thanking gsp every day you're alive for saving mw from bisping dodging contenders and taking money fights for a year and a half

I believe this is correct. Like Aspinall, Whittaker was IC at the time. So GSP only would have "deserved" as much heat as Jones if he'd defended against anyone other than Whittaker after winning the belt off Bisping, which of course didn't happen because GSP retired - leading to Whittaker's IC belt being promoted to undisputed champ.

It would have been like Jones retiring 1 month after beating Gane.

 

[C0NCH3TO]

No, but Ping got bashed. Cause instead of fighting Whitaker or Romero he stalled the division for the money fight against a guy he thought he’d beat. Gsp relinquished the belt 1 month after beating Ping and prior to that whenever he got pressed to fight Anderson he came clean and said “ fuck no, lol… he’s too big “. Period.

Joni boi dodged Ngannou, threw a tantrum and fired himself from the ufc… waited a few years and came back to fight a french kickboxer with no heart. Good for him. But the problem came afterwards…he stalls the division to fight a 40+ retired firefighter who was coming off a devastating ko ( nothing wrong with fighting Stipe but he should have relinquished the belt after the Gane fight), wins the fight and now refuses to unify the belt because the other dude is an asshole and a nobody lol. Just say it…” he’s too big, young and can beat me like an abused wife.”

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

GSP held onto the title for a month, then vacated. Jon held the division up for over a year just to fight old man stipe.
Night and day.

 

[ArtardFiesta]

GSP on the outside appears to be a nice guy and gentleman.

Jon Jones is a steroid cheat and sociopath.

So GSP often gets a pass jones would never get.

Another example is when jones left lhw after his razor thin decision win over reyes. Actually most people have forgotten about that, but still brought up by the GSP haters,. But really GSP got it easy there too.

 

[Thy]

didn't he retire and give up the belt instead of holding the division up?

 

[Strijfy]

Did GSP get as much heat as Jones for hand-picking Bisping, promising to not retire, and then ducking entire MW division?

Or is it just bias against Jones for refusing Aspinall?

Did Sherdog treat GSP with same energy?

you need to stop making dogshit threads and read the forum a little, no a lot more

 

[Sweater of AV]

Actually, yes, he did get a ton of shit. There were also quite a few jokes about his colitis.

 

[koa pomaikai]

didn't he retire and give up the belt instead of holding the division up?

He promised he wouldn’t retire and would defend. Jones didn’t hold anything up. Tom got his Interim belt.

GSP got the title shot because he promised Dana he’d defend, didn’t do it and then wanted a shot against Khabib lol.

 

[AmonTobin]

GSP was one of, if not the most humble and respectful defending champion in UFC history. Threads like these are just pissing up a rope. He vacated immediately, didn’t insult other contenders, didn’t bitch at fans on social media, and didn’t refer to himself daily as the goat. Big difference.

 

[lsa]

As stated GSP vacated and the division was never on hold.
They did not get an interim champ or anything.
But people pissed and moaned for years about it.

 

[koa pomaikai]

GSP was one of, if not the most humble and respectful defending champion in UFC history. Threads like these are just pissing up a rope.

Jones might not he humble or that respectful but he defended against everyone until the tail end of his career, just like GSP.

GSP also ruined the MW division arguably worse than jones, by sniping Bisping and then immediately hightailing it after he promised not to run.

 

[Mind Mine]

He got criticism but not anywhere near as much because he didnt stick around holding up the division for years by sitting at home with the belt and making BS defences while shamelessly ducking obvious contenders because they "dont add anything to his legacy" and "havent done anything".

Shamelessly ducking? You mean the UFC never offering the Aspinall fight and any man with a pinch of intelligence would have taken the Stipe fight? Is that your new age definition of shamelessly ducking? Well it’s fucking dumb

 

[AmonTobin]

Jones might not he humble or that respectful but he defended against everyone until the tail end of his career, just like GSP.

GSP also ruined the MW division arguably worse than jones, by sniping Bisping and then immediately hightailing it after he promised not to run.

Good luck with that.