GSP the two division champ, impressive?

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GSP the king of WW and an all time great comes back and reclaims the MW title, awesome thing to have on your legacy, WW and MW champ, dude will be remembered for sure but how about hardcore fans? Are those “two belts” THAT impressive? We all know that Whittaker, Romero or Luke would be a harder matchup than bisping but its not his fault bisping was the champ, he sure fought him quick instead of those guys tho, as soon as he wins it he gives it up too?

GSP is a bonafide legend no doubt but the whole 2 belt thing is as glorified as conors double champ..
 
As a matter of fact, it is.
 
Still impressive to finish Bisping. A guy who's been active and is in a division above. Especially after a 4 year layoff...
 
Nope.

GSP cherry picked one of the worst champions of all time and retired again when the true MW champ came calling.
 
It is, but fact remains he intentionally waited till the Middleweight division had one of its weakest champs ever before returning. He wanted no part of Whittaker, Rockhold, or Romero and would not have fought any of them if they had been champion.
 
Couture and Penn were two division champions (not simultaneously). Couture was a 3x HW champion and 2x LHW champion while Penn won both the WW and LW titles once.

Back then that was a tremendous feat but now, not so much. With gifted title shots and the company so eager for super fights like Cyborg vs Nunes for the BW title, it will be the norm. Before you know it, the UFC will be like boxing and have three belts for one division.

Atleast GSP cleaned out his division first, Mcgregor didn't even defend his FW title before getting a shot at the LW title. And now he hasn't defended that one either.
 
His career at 170lbs is very impressive. Potentially GOAT Status.

The win over Bisping after the time off was pretty nice but a senior citizen Hendo nearly beat him.

That second title? *Eye roll* but I guess it will look good in the history books.
 
Impressive, sure. He took a few years off and won the title in a higher class. Of course, his route to the title was as impressive as Conor's to the LW title (meaning it wasn't) but you can't deny those 2 guys beat the champs of the higher weight class. However, it's not AS impressive as winning the title then defending once or twice.
 
Not according to posters here.

According to rational fans, winning one title is amazing. Winning two is incredible
 
Impressive that GSP came back after 4 years and won a fight. Not impressive that Bisping lost to a guy who hadn't fought in 4 years.

UFC belts don't mean anything. Given a chance, any fighter can win one fight and become a UFC champ. In the NBA you have to play a series of 7 games 4 times to become champion. All these after playing 82 games in a season.

It is very hard to tell who is the best fighter in combat sports, because any fighter can get lucky on one night (JDS vs Cain 1), and if there is no rematch, that fighter may go to his grave thinking he was better than the opponent, but in reality, he really wasn't.
 
Is it impressive that after 4 years off GSP came back at a higher weight and won the title?

Of course it fucking is. Stop finding a reason to hate on him.
 
For years people gushed over Anderson's wins at LHW win over Forrest. When Anderson's in the GOAT discussion his win over Forrest and 'testing himself in the division above' are one of the biggest accolades put forth for him.

Now GSP goes up and tests himself in the division above and does so in a bigger fight, with a more relevant fighter who is also the Champ. In every way conceivable a bigger and better win at the division above than what Anderson did.

so yes TS it is a huge and relevant win for GSP.
 
Yes it’s impressive, it’s also entirely opurtunistic (mw belt) but hey that appears to be the present state of the UFC. I’m not impressed with the fact I probably won’t see him fight again imho.
 
People expected Bisping to win. UFC fighters were counting GSP out, especially MW's. GSP went out there and finished one of the MW GOATs. People didn't make a stink when Conor won the FW belt and then left the division without defending and left for LW. BJ won at WW and left. He beat the undisputed champ, period. He is GOAT imo.
 
No. It's just a stupid technicality like Conor holding two belts simultaneously despite never defending, and getting stripped very soon after without protest. Everyone new Bisping was an oppurtune easy fight, and if you don't think that's 100% the reason he came back then you're silly.

It's about as impressive as Ngannou having the "worlds strongest punch as measured by our proprietary machine"... it's just something thrown around to create buzz/hype. In reality it doesn't mean much.
 
The fact is whether you like it or not it’s more impressive than what any other GOAT candidate has done considering he’s the only one to accomplish that.
 
Eh, hard to say, a 46 year old Hendo nearly finished Bisping twice.
 
Yes and no.

The thing is that no two division champion has actually earned their way to the top of both divisions.

Randy has the strongest second division resume but remember that he did start out at 205 by getting in interim title shot vs chuck then beat Tito. Randy never actually had a win streak longer than 2 in the LHW division (technically, since he did have that weird Vitor loss).

BJ was a 155er that got a title fight after Hughes had taken out all 170 LB contenders. Outside of Hughes he doesn't have a single 170 LB win in the UFC.

Conor and GSP both only have a single fight at their higher weight class to their name.

No two division champion ever went on a tear in their second weight class unlike someone like RDA who actually would have earned a title shot based on his resume at 170 if he happens to ever become the 170 Champion (same with Frankie at 145).
 
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