Thanks. Yeah I saw the above pic and thought "Wait a minute, I could have SWORN GSP had worse damage under his eyes".I knew this was gonna be the first one but that's actually the wrong pic.
Here's the actual one. Looks even worse.
I just rewatched Anderson-Bisping and man what a beating Anderson put on him over the course of 5 rounds. WAs a very interesting fight in that Anderson did do a lot of dancing and hand/arm distractions but when he landed he did a lot of damage in addition to the nuclear flying knee. So anderson loses and he looks like he just jogged a mile on a treadmill and Bisping looks like he was beaten by a baseball bat for 25 minutes.
The other fight that comes to mind is another robbery imo, Penn-gsp I. Geroges got absolutely decimated over the course of the 3 round fight and had to be rushed to the hospital afterwards while BJ literally walked out of the arena without as much as a scratch on his face and was in the club with his team that night while georges was most likely on oxygen and an IV for days afterwards.
Any others you can think of?
Thanks. Yeah I saw the above pic and thought "Wait a minute, I could have SWORN GSP had worse damage under his eyes".
That fight is a good indicator for who watches the fights they discuss and who parrots the rubbish they read from other people who make their decisions based on pictures and rumors.Clearly.
A sherdogger finally explained to me why sherdoggers think otherwise. They acknowledge everything you said above...they just think that was the beginning of the migration toward "point fighting" - the beginning of the end. And they're frustrated about it, still.
But unlike fights like, say, Machida v Rampage or Souza v Romero, where one or more rounds could have honestly gone either way, no one actually believes BJ won either round 2 or round 3 according to the rules agreed to by all. They just wish fighters were rewarded more for throwing heavy punches in the box (BJ) than jabbing and moving and landing more shots that don't hurt much (GSP).
Once I heard that, I quit pointing out that BJ clearly and obviously won only 1 round. Apparently they all know it already
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I just rewatched Anderson-Bisping and man what a beating Anderson put on him over the course of 5 rounds. WAs a very interesting fight in that Anderson did do a lot of dancing and hand/arm distractions but when he landed he did a lot of damage in addition to the nuclear flying knee. So anderson loses and he looks like he just jogged a mile on a treadmill and Bisping looks like he was beaten by a baseball bat for 25 minutes.
The other fight that comes to mind is another robbery imo, Penn-gsp I. Geroges got absolutely decimated over the course of the 3 round fight and had to be rushed to the hospital afterwards while BJ literally walked out of the arena without as much as a scratch on his face and was in the club with his team that night while georges was most likely on oxygen and an IV for days afterwards.
Any others you can think of?
Penn x GSP is a robbery that doesn't get talked about often enough.
Penn x GSP is a robbery that doesn't get talked about often enough.
In GSP's defense, his face/skin bruises ("strawberries"?) easily, so even without any cuts or serious (dark) bruises, his face is always torn-up looking. Igor Vovchanchyn was another stud who, after even the lightest pommeling exchange, would have deep-purple markings all over his banana peel face.The GSP pic you posted is actually from the Diaz fight. It’s crazy how much scar tissue GSP has, that fight was nothing but a domination but the 6-7 punches Diaz landed were enough to bruise up GSP badly. Imagine if Diaz actually had some TDD, Georges would’ve been a mess!
Holy shit lmao