The fight that defined GSP

[JustBleed69]

GSP thought he was a solid striker, he also thought Matt Serra was a big can and decided he will play around for a round, to test his striking skills. He didn't go for a single take down, he thought this fight is too easy and a good opportunity to test his striking skills, maybe get a nice KO highlight.



He never fought on his feet again. This was the last time he played the striker. In the rematch he would take Serra down in the first 2 seconds and repeatedly take him down when Serra stood up.
This was the fight that turned GSP into the ufc wrestling control freak and according to many the most boring ufc champ to this day with 0 finishes.

 

[Tylerlikesmma]

It really is a disservice you're doing for newer fans parroting this false notion that GSP started being boring right after the Serra fight. Again...Hughes III, Serra II, Fitch, BJ II were all incredible fights. A lot of the new comers won't go back & watch these classics because people like you repeat dumb & incorrect things.

 

[NoSmilez]

Probably Matt Hughes 2

 

[r-harper-1]

Well, you are spewing shit because you are a hater. Please don't even try to say that is not true. I can simply go back and post things you have said right here on this board. Now what makes me think this? GSP has been in quite a few fights with quite a few good wrestlers and grapplers. Find me ONE gif where he was controlled. Because if Khabib can't hold him down he is gonna lose. Plain and simple. Maybe you can say Khabib is a better grappler. But GSP has definitely showed he can out grapple a lot bigger guys. And that would be a problem for Khabib.
Proof. Like this kind of stuff.

Khabib will be much faster .... how will GSP look at 155 ? People thinking GSP is still in is prime will be disappointed if he fights a top guy .... but Khabib is of course a good style match for him

 

[Mike JV]

It always the same morons in these threads hating on GSP. They call his fans pathetic, yet they post in these threads every single day crying about him.

 

[ejazahmednit]

He outstruck nick diaz with a fever

 

[ejazahmednit]

Just because a fight goes to a decision doesn't mean its a boring fight
A high percentage of GOAT candidate fights went the distance

 

[boss429]

Half of sherdog will KO granpa bisping. Plus granpa shut down his wrassling game, can you imagine.

Are you serious? Only 3 people have ever KOed Bisping (2 of them being among the most feared strikers in the sports history) with the other coming 2 weeks after the GSP loss in a fight that should have never even been allowed.

Bisping was also notorious for shutting down Wrestlers which is why he was actually a terrible first fight back for GSP.

Bisping was a stylistic nightmare on paper. A tough, gritty, relentless pressure fighter/ volume striker with endless cardio who's hard to get to the mat and even harder too keep there.

On top of that he had a substantial size advantage and was riding the best winning streak of his career.

 

[boss429]

He outstruck nick diaz with a fever

He also out struck Condit and Alves as well as beating Kos and Shields in fights that he didn't attempt any takedowns in.

GSP spent a lot of time on the feet and was just as dominant standing as he was on the mat but he was also just as cautious so everyone seems too forget his title fights were probably around 50/50 between standup and grappling.

 

[boss429]

GSP thought he was a solid striker, he also thought Matt Serra was a big can and decided he will play around for a round, to test his striking skills. He didn't go for a single take down, he thought this fight is too easy and a good opportunity to test his striking skills, maybe get a nice KO highlight.



He never fought on his feet again. This was the last time he played the striker. In the rematch he would take Serra down in the first 2 seconds and repeatedly take him down when Serra stood up.
This was the fight that turned GSP into the ufc wrestling control freak and according to many the most boring ufc champ to this day with 0 finishes.

This was indeed the fight that defined GSPs career but outside of that the rest of the OP is pretty ridiculous.

GSP took Serra lightly and paid dearly for it. After he never half assed another camp or looked past another opponent again and went on to become an all time great.

 

[r-harper-1]

Yet Luke Rockhold and Anderson Silva couldn’t...

Rockhold actually did ... then he choked him out with one arm

 

[Richard Fannin]

It's funny how often i've read that St-Pierre has the most pathetic fanbase, when there's a couple of threads per week trying to discredit or diminish what he has achieved.

And these GSP bashing threads are always made by the same 5 accounts; a ragtag bunch of former BJ Penn nuthuggers, and Anderson Silva fanboys who just can't accept that most people tend to rank GSP a bit higher than him P4P.

About the "most pathetic fanbase" thing, since it's what every single MMA fanbase ever has been called by sherdoggers, it doesn't mean much.
BJ Penn's hardcore nuthuggers became a running joke back in the days, and ever since this fanbase war has kept going...

It's like people from the right and the left calling each others triggered snowflakes, it doesn't mean anything anymore at this point.

The fight that defined GSP for me was the 3rd Hughes one... it really showed how much St-Pierre had evolved, beating his old rival, the former WW king, in a way that made Hughes look like he didn't belong in the cage with his anymore.
The second BJ Penn fight was also a beautiful beatdown, the kind that says "no need for a 3rd one"; making BJ quit on the stool after all the shit he had talked, that was such a pure, clean high.

Special mention for the Bisping fight; GSP put his legacy on the line with everything to lose, to move up in weight and fight the champion there, who had just beaten Anderson, Rockhold and Hendo.
Finished the bigger brit in exciting fashion, now that reminded me why GSP is such a legend.
(in my headcanon, Fedor and GSP are tied for the GOAT spot, 2 very special warriors)

Can it sink in as far as Jake's knuckle sunk into GSP's fucking eye socket? GSP suffered a scrathed cornea. It was not a onetime accident. It was part of the game plan. Jake went for the eyes over and over and over. What a fucking shit stick.The worst poke was either in R1 or R2, so GSP was half blind for the majority of the fight. He also stuffed every one of Jake's take downs.

Tss tss tss
Reminds me of when BJ Penn eye-poked GSP in their first fight

George's eye was completely fucked, he saw double and all.

Between eye poker and steroid cheats, poor Georges had his hands full during his reign.

 

[ThunderStruck]

GSP thought he was a solid striker, he also thought Matt Serra was a big can and decided he will play around for a round, to test his striking skills. He didn't go for a single take down, he thought this fight is too easy and a good opportunity to test his striking skills, maybe get a nice KO highlight.



He never fought on his feet again. This was the last time he played the striker. In the rematch he would take Serra down in the first 2 seconds and repeatedly take him down when Serra stood up.
This was the fight that turned GSP into the ufc wrestling control freak and according to many the most boring ufc champ to this day with 0 finishes.

Ban.

 

[Brandon Wilson]

Can it sink in as far as Jake's knuckle sunk into GSP's fucking eye socket? GSP suffered a scrathed cornea. It was not a onetime accident. It was part of the game plan. Jake went for the eyes over and over and over. What a fucking shit stick.The worst poke was either in R1 or R2, so GSP was half blind for the majority of the fight. He also stuffed every one of Jake's take downs.

Let that sink in.

The same people that will be OK with this, are the same ones that are OK with Jones doing the same thing. GayArea and 20FarValdes come to mind.

 

[ThunderStruck]

Guys remember that georges lost two rounds on the feet to jake sheilds. Let that sink in.

Penn lost one round to a random street thug, by KO.

Let that sink in.

 

[ThunderStruck]

Don’t recall him ever admitting that .... but I’ll tske your word for it

He 100% admitted it.

 

[ThunderStruck]

I wouldnt use either kos fight to brag Bout his abilities especially the second one where kos looked like the cyclops from Krull and gsp still couldnt or just plain wouldnt put him away.

GSP took Kos eye out with a clean jab

Penn took GSP's eye out with a clean eye poke.

To each its own.

 

[ThunderStruck]

Kos has the second best takedowns in mma imo, next to GSP.

 

[Oddmonster]

Yeah, GSP was not a ground fighter before he fought Serra. Just look at his UFC debut -

Ohhh.....

 

[Perrichet]

I watched a lot of old GSP fights today & it really cemented for me that the narrative that he became a grappler after the Serra fight is COMPLETE nonsense. He fought the majority of his career in top position before & after Serra.

Also, the idea that GSP became boring immediately after Serra is also bullshit. Hughes III (armbar) Serra II (tko), Fitch (absolute beating), BJ Penn II (beating & corner stoppage). All those fights happened after the first Serra fight & they were all incredible performances.

Georges did not start to have some boring fights until around the Alves fight, which was many fights later. & He always favored the top position

Even the Alves gets slated for being boring and lay and pray yet GSP did what he wanted until he pulled his groin after the 3rd(?) round, and Alves still didn’t threaten.

Almost half of the fight was standing in which GSP oustruck him, dropped and almost finished him.

Took his back twice, got into mount, passed his guard numerous times. Postured up in guard for GNP. The totally opposite of lay and pray