GSP's toughest opponent is Jake?

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Zahabi said that Shields was Georges' toughest opponent to date. The article is on mmafighting.com. This is pretty surprising to me. Maybe it's because of the eye poke...I don't know. George looked in control the whole damn fight.
 
Trying to hype a rematch with Shields because of what he said about George's hand wraps?
 
Jake took rounds off him, albeit controversially. Jake is way better than he gets credit for, he just takes endless shit because he punches like a bitch and looks like a douche. But Jake has some outstanding wins on his resume and most of his losses have been very close. He's also way stronger than Diaz and thus much more dangerous to GSP on the mat, so GSP felt it was best to keep it standing, even when he was half blind. Personally, I don't think he'd have had nearly the problems on the ground that he was afraid of, but what do I know.
 
The way to beat GSP is with terrible striking technique.

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iwhoopedbatman said:
Jake took rounds off him, albeit controversially. Jake is way better than he gets credit for, he just takes endless shit because he punches like a bitch and looks like a douche. But Jake has some outstanding wins on his resume and most of his losses have been very close. He's also way stronger than Diaz and thus much more dangerous to GSP on the mat, so GSP felt it was best to keep it standing, even when he was half blind. Personally, I don't think he'd have had nearly the problems on the ground that he was afraid of, but what do I know.
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Totally agree. Rush is an ace on the ground. He just like to minimize all risk and that includes not fighting in his opponent's strong areas.
 
From what i've seen, I'd say Condit was GSP's toughest. Nick Diaz second.

GSP has pretty much dominated everyone he's ever fought.
 
I'd say Jake did the best round wise and had a set of skills he appeared most concerned with but Condit put him in the most danger.
 
Blatant eye gouge. Anyone got the gifs? But like i said the refs dont give a shit unless its 12-6 elbows.
 
idk if we are talking all his fights in the ufc then it is definetly bj penn 1...Bj is the ONLY person in the ufc to actually F up Gsp and legitmetly win an entire round agaisnt him and arguably the fight as well..many people think BJ won that first fight....but if your talking recently then i would say condit for sure...
 
Wasn't he the only guy to take a round from GSP since the first Koscheck fight? He took 2 rounds from him on two scorecards. But GSP himself said that Condit was the best guy he's ever faced.
 
istay said:
No way was Diaz the 2nd toughest fight he's had.
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I've never seen GSP in that much danger. He was rocked in the end of the 3rd round and there's no doubt Nick Diaz had some good exchanges with him on the feet. Also Nick stuffed a lot of GSP's takedown attempts.
 
ive been saying jakes his toughest opponent for years

by far the strongest and most athletic fighter gsp will have ever faced. one of the best wrestlers, hits the hardest etc
 
iwhoopedbatman said:
Jake took rounds off him, albeit controversially. Jake is way better than he gets credit for, he just takes endless shit because he punches like a bitch and looks like a douche. But Jake has some outstanding wins on his resume and most of his losses have been very close. He's also way stronger than Diaz and thus much more dangerous to GSP on the mat, so GSP felt it was best to keep it standing, even when he was half blind. Personally, I don't think he'd have had nearly the problems on the ground that he was afraid of, but what do I know.
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It is because Shields rarely looks good, even in victory. You never watch him and think to yourself "holy shit can that guy fight." He reminds me of Munoz in this respect. They both have good records and pretty good resumes (with Shields' definitely being better) but neither wows you.

And it also doesn't help Jake that all of his really good wins came outside of the UFC except for Kampmann, which was a pretty crappy performance where he gassed badly and the fight could have gone either way (I had it for Jake but it wasn't exactly a dynamic performance).
 
OneBoredColeman said:
I've never seen GSP in that much danger. He was rocked in the end of the 3rd round and there's no doubt Nick Diaz had some good exchanges with him on the feet. Also Nick stuffed a lot of GSP's takedown attempts.
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No way he was rocked. Georges said himself that body punch didn't hurt him. He said a left hook caught him by surprise, but he wasn't hurt.

Estima also said that Georges was a bit tired in the 3rd round from fighting off the wrist control from Nick in rounds 1 and 2. Nick was in an energy conserving position...just turtled up working for the knee bar.
 
velvet goldmine said:
Totally agree. Rush is an ace on the ground. He just like to minimize all risk and that includes not fighting in his opponent's strong areas.
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This, it's funny when people say gsp beats his opponents in their strengths because hell stand briefly with his opponents between takedowns.
 
iwhoopedbatman said:
Jake took rounds off him, albeit controversially. Jake is way better than he gets credit for, he just takes endless shit because he punches like a bitch and looks like a douche. But Jake has some outstanding wins on his resume and most of his losses have been very close. He's also way stronger than Diaz and thus much more dangerous to GSP on the mat, so GSP felt it was best to keep it standing, even when he was half blind. Personally, I don't think he'd have had nearly the problems on the ground that he was afraid of, but what do I know.
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Jake is the first fighter that couldn't finish an average Joe at bully beatdown.It says alot about his striking.
 
Georges is the best at winning. He is great. I will never buy his PPV. 3 Facts.
 
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