[quote]brand wrote:
He stuffed a couple attempts late when Hughes was hurt. Hughes didn’t look to take it to the ground right away, that much was obvious. Bad gameplan for Hughes as GSP proved his standup to be vastly superior. I would have liked to see it go to the ground for a bit. That would have been interesting. [/quote]
It did go to the ground. GSP caught a leg kick and took down Hughes, and then he passed his guard and landed a number punches. Hughes did show his strength and stood up, but ate a knee while he did.
I’m pretty sure we saw the same fight - you must have gone to take a piss, though when Monson passed Sylvia’s guard, and Sylvia still controlled the ground game.
I’m not saying Sylvia is an exciting fighter to watch - but Everyone was saying that if Monson took him to the ground, the fight would be over. He did, but Sylvia was not submitted. [/quote]
No, I did see that. You’re right; he was never submitted. So I guess in the way of defending against the ground attack, Sylvia did a great job. I guess it’s not how the fight was won, but rather whether it was won at all. So good on Sylvia.
On the sponsorship thing… while I had somewhat of a hard time seeing the Spike logo on the blue trunks as well, the getspike.com across the back was pretty obvious. Guess I can’t comment on how people perceive the Spike logo, though. I can certainly tell the difference.
Biotest should look to invest in Brandon Vera. He will be the new face of the heavyweight division soon enough, and right now he’s probably not covered by anyone big enough.
[quote]Naphta wrote:
Biotest should look to invest in Brandon Vera. He will be the new face of the heavyweight division soon enough, and right now he’s probably not covered by anyone big enough.[/quote]
Double, triple thumbs up to that. Vera has mega potential.
[quote]MixmasterNash wrote:
brand wrote:
He stuffed a couple attempts late when Hughes was hurt. Hughes didn’t look to take it to the ground right away, that much was obvious. Bad gameplan for Hughes as GSP proved his standup to be vastly superior. I would have liked to see it go to the ground for a bit. That would have been interesting.
It did go to the ground. GSP caught a leg kick and took down Hughes, and then he passed his guard and landed a number punches. Hughes did show his strength and stood up, but ate a knee while he did.[/quote]
Yeah, I watched it. It briefly went to the ground. Hughes never really tried to take it there, however. That was out of character for him.
If Monson could’ve locked his legs around Sylvia while applying the guillotine, the fight would’ve been over, as he had it in deep. Sylvia used his height, though, and rolled over to side and eventually broke free.
I’m so stoked that GSP won. He owned Hughes from the start. Hughes looked “off” from the moment the fight began. Plus, GSP was real quick and sharp. Guess it was the Spike that did it.
GSP is going to destroy Matt Serra. A match against Diego Sanchez wouldn’t be bad, though, and then a third and final fight against Hughes, possibly leading to Hughes’ retirement?
I just caught the championship fights this afternoon after work (couldn’t stay up).
When they cut to Monson’s corner during the introductions, there was Josh Barnett and all I could think was “why can’t HE be in this fight??” That would’ve been much more interesting than the piece of crap fight those two put on.
The main even on the other hand…O WOW! Where can I buy a poster with that kick to the head? One of GSP’s corner people should’ve run up to Matt, stand over him and say “you got knocked DA FUCK OUT! Ha!”
Even though I don’t care for Silvia he did avoid getting submitted by Monson and that is certainly an accomplishment on his part. So give the man his props. He is beating everyone the UFC puts in front of him.
Either Hughes doesn’t have the ability for a very good stand up or his camp isn’t equipped to aid him in attaining those critical capabilities. If the latter is the case he needs to find the best muay tai trainers and the like. And then give himself up to them for however long it takes. He got completely embarrassed!
For me the craziest moment came when Hughes actually got GSP up to attempt a slam and GSP just spread his legs and came harmlessly back down, with underhooks of his own no less. I was just pissed that we didn’t get the backflip.
And yeah, this plus Ohio State feels pretty damn good.
Haha, I was pretty stoked, one of the guys jumping around and screaming when GSP knocked him out at the end of the first…and then again in the second. Good win for St. Pierre
I think we should practice a little levity with our celebration. GSP won, but lets not discount matt Hughes just yet, even though he is a cocky asshole at times…or at least plays one on TV. The guy has been an absolute monster in his division for awhile and he has just been running through guys. Anytime the top 3 in that division fight it could go either way, losing to Hughes, GSP, or Penn is nothing to be ashamed of.
After Couture beat Liddell the first time, everybody was saying Couture was going to run through him again in their second match…and we all know how that ended. Lets not write Hughes off yet.
Anytime the top 3 in that division fight it could go either way, losing to Hughes, GSP, or Penn is nothing to be ashamed of.
Completely agreed. I do think that a really well conditioned Penn would win most of the time against either GSP or Hughes. [/quote]
After watching GSP neutralize Matts game so effectively, I just don’t know that BJ’s stand up is better than Georges’s.
I think Georges is capable of beating them both standing or on the ground. I don’t think we can judge Georges on his performance fighting BJ due to the eye injury.
I think the eye poke did screw Georges’s vision up and because of that BJ was able to hit him more than he would have otherwise.
I think in the least Georges demonstrated the difference between that fight and being at a 100%.
I just can’t get over how masterful GSP’s skills were. Based on that I would say George can take either of them at will. I’m not saying I’m right but that is how I feel now. He took the top dog down without much adue.(spelling?)
I too would love to see him fight BJ again. To see who would win the striker war on that one and no due to GSP’s eye injury we haven’t seen it yet.
Anytime the top 3 in that division fight it could go either way, losing to Hughes, GSP, or Penn is nothing to be ashamed of.
Completely agreed. I do think that a really well conditioned Penn would win most of the time against either GSP or Hughes.
After watching GSP neutralize Matts game so effectively, I just don’t know that BJ’s stand up is better than Georges’s.
I think Georges is capable of beating them both standing or on the ground. I don’t think we can judge Georges on his performance fighting BJ due to the eye injury.
I think the eye poke did screw Georges’s vision up and because of that BJ was able to hit him more than he would have otherwise.
I think in the least Georges demonstrated the difference between that fight and being at a 100%.
I just can’t get over how masterful GSP’s skills were. Based on that I would say George can take either of them at will. I’m not saying I’m right but that is how I feel now. He took the top dog down without much adue.(spelling?)
I too would love to see him fight BJ again. To see who would win the striker war on that one and no due to GSP’s eye injury we haven’t seen it yet.
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Standing I can see it being very close bet GSP and BJ. The eye injury is a possible reason he got beat up so bad. It is hard to fight when you can’t see out of one eye due to an unintentional eye poke. That would be kinda like trying to fight after getting kicked in the balls…twice…in less than a minute. Sorry, couldn’t resist. I don’t him beating an in-shape BJ on the ground though.