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As a huge Anderson fan .... I would’ve loved to have have seen GSP vs Anderson
Anderson and it's not even close.
I suspect people voting Khabib are 'newer' fans
The Trenches Poll: Which fight with GSP do you wish had happened the most?anderson fight would have made sense back in the pre-usada era. now look at anderson. the steroids are wearing off, he's getting too old, and he's struggling to win against lower level guys. now look at the opponents he's signing off to fight. at this point in time do you really think that silva fighting gsp would end up resulting in anything other than silva being wrestlefucked to death? gsp would bring it to him.
gsp made it clear that he only wants legacy fights from this point on. fighting a fully deflated anderson would add nothing to that and make no sense at all. it would just be for nostalgia purposes
once upon a time that would have been the fight to make, but that time has come and gone. gsp has a legacy to protect, whereas anderson has spent the last 6 or 7 years embarassing himself and tarnishing his legacy and legitimacy as a fighter. gsp has nothing to prove by taking the fight, and nothing to gain from it either. sure he'd be able to say he was able to defeat anderson silva, but that wouldnt be much of noteable accomplishment when everybody else has been doing it these days, and in the post usada era the only time he's fought clean and won was when he barely scraped a questionable decision win over brunson. i mean come on. is this the best retirement party you can offer georges?
i would vote for any other top 10 fighter over anderson. anderson has not earned the right to fight georges after all of his recent history inside and outside of the octagon. khabib is a solid choice right now. he's also got 25 fights under his belt and has also won the belt and defeated every single opponent he has ever faced. i dont know of any other fighter whos been able to pull that off, other than GSP himself. this would be one hell of a fight if georges is still in good shape to go. would be alot more entertaining to watch than seeing him feed jabs and smother anderson silva to death when anderson is well past his prime
in all honesty silva should probably hang them up. or at the very least fight bj penn just for the nostalgia or whatever. bj penn doesnt seem to know when to fold em either so that would be a much more meaningful fight to make. you look at the level of competition anderson wants to take lately, and you look at the level of guys that gsp will only consider fighting, and thats a huge gap right there.
anderson silva isnt going to retire if he cant get a fight with straight killers like khabib. and gsp isnt going to take fights against guys like cannonier, brunson, adesanya, etc. because it would add nothing to his legacy and he feels he's still above taking fights with lower level fighters just to try to prove anything.
its pretty obvious how the fight would play out, and i just dont care to see it. gsp is still hungry. anderson is just hanging around for the sake of fighting. the only reason gsp would even consider taking this fight would be if he's looking to take the easy road to retirement and make a lot of money and go out with what should be a fairly easy win, rather to face any of the dozen or so top level guys who would also want to fight him. theres nothing more to it than that.
The Trenches Poll: Which fight with GSP do you wish had happened the most?
Question isn't asking for present day
That's how they've been working. Auto updating instead of having to hammer the F5 button. Must save Wadtucket a lot of grief, or maybe it causes more, I dunno how it impacts the like feature.So the live threads will work basically like chat rooms in the mid 90's?
Cool.