Why did GSP tap so fast against Matt Hughes?

[Psychojoe86]

That particular armbar is extremely deep right off the bat, and results in instant pain

 

[Bouboumaster]

Because he has twice the IQ of a guy like Mike Perry and avoided useless damage. Instead, he tapped, beat some fools and came back to kick Hughes ass

 

[chiefwiggum]

Because some guys you can just shout “ do over” when you’re in trouble and fight them again pretty quickly again.

 

[JustBleed69]

It looked like he tapped when Hughes grabbed his arm and didn't even have it locked in place, there was also 1 second left and he didn't even hold out a few seconds. Was GSP a heartlet? He always seemed like a mentally tough guy to me

It was locked in. Also GSP admitted that he choked hard in this fight. It happens, especially when you're young.

 

[90 50]

It was 100 years ago and he didnt have a strong BJJ game yet? Beat the brakes off hughes twice more, so I dont think he was too shook.

He was shook, has said so in numerous interviews

He was young and the spotlight got. To him. Plus he. Saw Hughes as the megastar champion at the time and couldn’t even look at him. Before the fight.

Freaked and tapppped like it was training.

 

[Fadetoblack918]

I mean if you had a guy as big as Hughes trying to break your arm...

 

[Uber_Noober]

Prime Hughes was a bear of a man

 

[jko1355]

GSP botched that one. If he pinched his knees together instead of spreading them he almost definitely would have finished that armbar

In reality it's wrong in multiple places.... I think GSP had an interview of not wanting to hurt people but an arm bar comes from the legs not the upper body... this was all upper body.

 

[jeff7b9]

I am going to venture a guess that he probably didn’t have a ton of experience fighting through submission attempts at that point in his career. He was very young and green at this point.

Who was he training with at this point in his career? Was he with Greg Jackson yet?

could he have been the big fish in a small pond where he was training in Canada at that point and maybe he dominated most of his training partners and as such was always the hammer, not the nail, and panicked because he was not used to being in a bad position?

Could he have had the habit of tapping quickly from BJJ class/training?
(Where there is no reason to risk injury)

 

[TheBulge]

Why do a fighters fanbase get so butthurt over any type of criticism?

I think he has more of an athletes mentality than a fighters. He’s tapped out quickly on more than one occasion and I don’t see him having the same end-all attitude that other fighters do. He taps when he loses control or he’s in a compromising situation. There’s a difference. He’s gotten heat for it in the past and whether he deserves it or not us up to the individual. There’s no coming from behind to win for those types of fighters. I don’t blame him for tapping when it’s over, I’d do the same, but I don’t consider his ability to compete as some kind of confirmation.

It's not the criticsm it's your undeveloped brain's inability to comprehend a simple fact.

I literally just gave you examples of GSP getting hurt and almost losing fights and still coming back to win those fights, but your small brain just ignores that and you go right back to the "GSP never overcame adversity in fights" narrative.

Like without even missing a beat. I honestly do feel bad for people with a learning disability. It must put you in many frustrating and humiliating situations in real life never mind the internet.

 

[H41ph_84k3d]

No heart.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

tou should watch sandhagen vs ilacantra. Or the hundreds of times when guys didn’t tap instantly. And got out of it.

IIRC Alcantara was quite deep on the arm, which is a great control position and will ultimately get a tap but there's more flexing room there. Hughes has the point of GSP's elbow over his cup/hip so from a fulcrum/lever point of view, that's going to break quickly. The downside to going for an armbar like that is if GSP had managed to slip his arm back an inch and get the elbow past the hip then there's no submission, but if the point of your elbow is on someone's hip or cup and they're going for a break, you want to be tapping.