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Media Johny Hendricks *** MEGA Lightweight ***

r-harper-1 said:
Gsp fanboy damage control
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Silva fought at 168 before the UFC. The Rumble on the Rock Tournament where he was DQ'd against Okami was a 175lb tournament, mere months before he entered the UFC. At any point in time Silva could have accepted the catchweight but knew he'd get 50-45'd.
Dana and GSP's versions of why it didn't happen line up, GSP wanted to stay at 170, bulking up for 185 would permanently affect his ability to go down to his natural division, so he offered a catchweight of 175. Notice that Dana says specifically "Anderson could have gone down to 170 to fight him, they could have come up with a catchweight" as in, the idea of a catchweight was in the air, I'm assuming Anderson either wanted 180 at minimum or was outright refusing a catchweight.

https://www.republicworld.com/sport...lva-and-georges-st-pierre-never-happened.html


UFC for some reason had an issue with outside testing I wonder why. They also wanted GSP to take that superfight on his current contract lmao.
When Anderson is asked directly if he wanted GSP to come up to 185, he completely avoids the question and obfuscates, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt with the language barrier, even though I really shouldn't, and it leads credence to my theory that he outright refused a catchweight of any kind.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Uex9mc01jb0
In short, you are wrong, Anderson wanted the fight only at 185 or bust, probably knew that if he cut weight again he'd get demolished, or perhaps his losses at that weight class still haunted him, only Anderson knows.
 
Mike said:
He only did significant damage in 2 and 4 and he won both of those rounds. This fight has always come down to round 1. Which was razor close.
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I understand that brother, but I still think Johnny won that fight, I know that's not a popular opinion lol.
 
whats with all these friggin Hendricks /GSP threads in the last week?
Sooks still cant get over the fact that your boy lost..
Time to move on
 
AmericanMMA said:
Hendricks/GSP is an all time robbery. Johnny got fucked… it was like Shogun/Machida, but Mchida had the balls to actually give Shogun the rematch. GSP quit.
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Bro, can people STFU with that robbery bullshit? Fight was close. The winner of round 1 won the fight. I gave it to GSP. Scoring the whole fight, which the UFC obviously doesn't do, gives a clear win to Big Turd. Round by round, it's a tossup. If the 4 star Michelin chef really wanted to win, he wouldn't have coasted the last round.
 
Lee_ said:
Lucky for Jonny he didn't get a rematch. Johnny went on a losing streak afterward that ended with losing to a gay porn star in bare knuckle. GSP won the MW title. And that's not even getting into the other, uh, issue (avoids stating so post isn't deleted, but knows the evidence is overwhelming).
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His downfall was terrible.

Even outside of the ring it was a sad downfall (lost his restaurant, foreclosed on his house, got fat and became a cop)
 
560ti said:
His downfall was terrible.

Even outside of the ring it was a sad downfall (lost his restaurant, foreclosed on his house, got fat and became a cop)
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Wow, I didn't know all of that; that is sad.
 
560ti said:
His downfall was terrible.

Even outside of the ring it was a sad downfall (lost his restaurant, foreclosed on his house, got fat and became a cop)
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Sounds like if they made Artie Bucco Tony Soprano's true nemesis in the series
 
checktheknuckles said:
GSP isn't dumb. After he got that home cooking, he took his ball with him and went home. He also waited until Silva wasn't champ and for the weakest MW champ ever in bIspong to come up to MW. Then took his ball home with him again.
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Problem with that is, he kept his ball in play and beat the very best for a long time. He lost previous fights (which he didn't here) and came back to destroy both of them. The idea he skimped and ran away is silly given the greater context of his career.

Yes, he came back and fought Bisping. And Jones waited until an easy match came at HW; 3 long years of waiting for Francis to leave. Silve in his prime would not go near Jones, but fought Griffin and Bonnar. He fought DC, but he was over with as a dominant fighter by then; he never would fight DC when he was a champ and had something to lose. In short, fans have nothing to complain about with GSP.

He had a long career as the champ taking on all comers, which is a lot of pressure which he was done with. If it was just Hendricks that GSP ran from, then why didn't he just come back when Johnny wilted to nothing, which was right afterward? GSP was winning the MW title looking and performing great (post USADA) when Hendricks' physique AND performance totally fell apart. Not much to complain about.
 
Lee_ said:
Problem with that is, he kept his ball in play and beat the very best for a long time. He lost previous fights (which he didn't here) and came back to destroy both of them. The idea he skimped and ran away is silly given the greater context of his career.

Yes, he came back and fought Bisping. And Jones waited until an easy match came at HW; 3 long years of waiting for Francis to leave. Silve in his prime would not go near Jones, but fought Griffin and Bonnar. He fought DC, but he was over with as a dominant fighter by then; he never would fight DC when he was a champ and had something to lose. In short, fans have nothing to complain about with GSP.

He had a long career as the champ taking on all comers, which is a lot of pressure which he was done with. If it was just Hendricks that GSP ran from, then why didn't he just come back when Johnny wilted to nothing, which was right afterward? GSP was winning the MW title looking and performing great (post USADA) when Hendricks' physique AND performance totally fell apart. Not much to complain about.
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One of the things that I guess bothered people about GSP and his career is that he was determined not to take tremendous amounts of damage. He was determined to retire at a relatively young age for a fighter and leave with his health fully intact. Sure he could’ve taken rematch after rematch and put his body through hell as he aged and his skills continued to decline. But he was too smart, and frankly wealthy to do that. He made the right decision since he routinely pops up as top three on everyone’s greatest of all time list.
 
Dbreiden83080 said:
One of the things that I guess bothered people about GSP and his career is that he was determined not to take tremendous amounts of damage. He was determined to retire at a relatively young age for a fighter and leave with his health fully intact. Sure he could’ve taken rematch after rematch and put his body through hell as he aged and his skills continued to decline. But he was too smart, and frankly wealthy to do that. He made the right decision since he routinely pops up as top three on everyone’s greatest of all time list.
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They don't like that GSP wouldn't sacrifice himself at the altar of the MMA fan (imagine that).

Yes, you are totally right:

“There’s a lot of people buried in the desert for much less than what I made for that fight, my friend,” St-Pierre wrote. “For the fight with Michael Bisping, with the pay-per-views, the sponsorship and all that, I made about $10 million. Then in 2019, I got out. I’m very lucky and very privileged that I finished on top. The reality is most fighters finish broke and broken. They hang there too long. They get brain damage. They go broke.

“I’m very healthy and I’m wealthy. It’s very rare to find someone that hangs up his gloves and finishes on top like this.”

Georges St-Pierre reveals details of past UFC negotiations, career earnings: ‘I was making many millions of dollars’ - MMA Fighting
 
Lee_ said:
They don't like that GSP wouldn't sacrifice himself at the altar of the MMA fan (imagine that).

Yes, you are totally right:

“There’s a lot of people buried in the desert for much less than what I made for that fight, my friend,” St-Pierre wrote. “For the fight with Michael Bisping, with the pay-per-views, the sponsorship and all that, I made about $10 million. Then in 2019, I got out. I’m very lucky and very privileged that I finished on top. The reality is most fighters finish broke and broken. They hang there too long. They get brain damage. They go broke.

“I’m very healthy and I’m wealthy. It’s very rare to find someone that hangs up his gloves and finishes on top like this.”

Georges St-Pierre reveals details of past UFC negotiations, career earnings: ‘I was making many millions of dollars’ - MMA Fighting
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For a lot of fighters and boxers, they simply can’t pull themselves out of the limelight. They are addicted to the fame, fight night, the competition whatever it is. Muhammad Ali to me is the greatest example ever of this. After he defeated George Foreman, he pretty much had solidified his greatest of all time argument. But he put himself through fight after fight after fight taking mass amounts of damage to end his career. All of it was unnecessary.
 
AmericanMMA said:
Hendricks/GSP is an all time robbery. Johnny got fucked… it was like Shogun/Machida, but Mchida had the balls to actually give Shogun the rematch. GSP quit.
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It obviously comes down to one round (round 1) which was quite tightly disputed. Unless you are not aware that fights are scored by rounds, it clearly is not an all time robbery.
 
Close fight but Jonny won. Sucks for him. GSP had a much better career and prime v prime gsp beats him clearly
 
I just rewatched round one to make sure I knew what I was talking about before posting and Hendricks clearly won. I am/was one of the biggest GSP fans around but I don't see how you can watch that round objectively and think that it was debatable.

They both got a takedown and only held the other down for like 10 seconds . GSP attempted a guillotine but it was never close and he only had it for like 5 seconds so I don't see how you could give much weight to that. The sequence where Hendricks hit GSP with 4 or 5 stiff right hands as he was defending a single leg and then hit GSP with 3 or 4 hard elbows flush on the temple along the fence is what seals the round for Hendricks. GSP hit Hendricks with a few strikes in the last minute or so but they were all really light looking strikes , even the head kick looked half commited and looked like a foot slap more than anything.
 
StonedLemur said:
I understand that brother, but I still think Johnny won that fight, I know that's not a popular opinion lol.
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Well I wouldn't say it's a minority opinion lol. It was a close fight I could understand people scoring it either way.
 
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