[quote]brand wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
Fiction wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
I’d have to disagree about him being a better striker though, GSP easily got the better of their striking exchanges. So, I don’t really know how you can say that.
In their first match-up I agree, BJ was the better striker. But, this time around GSP had learned a little something about striking strategy,the importance of doubling/tripling up his jabs, broken rhythm and feints, and attacking different levels of targets (going to the body as well as the head).
GSP pretty much conceded that Penn was the better boxer.
He and Greg Jackson intentionally made the first couple of rounds a wrestling match to cause his shoulder to freeze up and make BJ too tired to throw good shots.
No, he said that he thought Penn had faster hands, not necessarily a better boxer. The wrestling strategy was designed to slow Penn’s strikes down by tiring out his shoulders.
Still, even when Penn was fresh GSP got the better of him striking wise.
GSP’s use of feints, broken rythm, going to Penn’s body, doubling up his jabs and wrestling to tire BJ’s shoulders out was pretty much the perfect strategy for fighting a faster fighter.
They didn’t really strike while they were fresh. A handful of punches before GSP went for a takedown and clinched up. It was a good strategy, no doubt, but Georges didn’t want to all out strike with him to start off the fight. He didn’t get the best of it when that happened in their first fight. That’s why its MMA though, not boxing. [/quote]
Actually it was BJ who initiated the clinch, but yeah after watching it again, the first round was mostly clinch work.
I honestly think Georges would have still got the better of it this time around. When they first fought GSP always went for BJ’s head first (a mistake that Sherk also made) rather than mixing it up to the body, didn’t use any fakes, and didn’t use any broken rhythm to mess with BJ’s timing. This time he did.
