WAR FITCH!!!!

a little off his head the guy needs to eat his meals through a straw for the next couple of weeks

Fitch is a badass just for going 5 rounds like he did. Lots of guys would have gave up.

Nothing but respect for Fitch. He is a warrior and I really feel bad for his next opponent.

i have a whole new level of respect 4 fitch!! i knew he was a great fighter but that 5 rounds of war just proved his hunger 4 the title!! feel sorry 4 his next victim!!!

I give him all the respect in the world, but does he really think fighting before the end of the year is the smartest choice? His face was mangled!

That being said I hope he is on the Dec card. That has the potential to be unbelievable!

Have him fight Koscheck

I honestly didn’t think Fitch would last through the 1st round, but I give him a lot of respect. He hung in there and stuck it out. He didn’t have a lot offensively but he did a good job of neutralizing a lot of what GSP threw at him. I gained a lot of respect for his abilities and he’s a classy guy. The sport needs more like him.

Make Karo fight him!

dana should give fitch an exciting match like:
fitch vs. koscheck
fitch vs. hazelett

but instead the ufc will give him a slide in the next fight with lower fighters like:
fitch vs. burkman
fitch vs. saunders

Man, what a warrior, but he sure looked pretty beat up to me. I would like to see him fight Kos but Kos is always talking about how they are good friends and training partners and how they prob. wouldn’t fight unless it was for the title and it would have to have a big pay day.

Totally agree! Fitch is on a new level in my mind.

I don’t want to get off the subject too much but does it upset you guys that the top fighers that we are used to seeing fight 3 times a year in the UFC have been scheduled to fight only twice in 2008?

Fitch deserves a lot of respect for his “never say die” attitude. His statement that, “I wasn’t that beat up.” is a bit odd though – could he still be in a bit of denial?

fitch became one of my favorite fighters on saturday due to his heart, toughness and respect. He has all the skills to be a top guy but gsp is a beast and he gave it his all. I would like to see fitch fight another top ten guy in his next fight i think he is going to be stuck in the same situation as rich franklin in the middleweight division that being he is far and away from the top guy but he is also far and away from the third guy. I think fitch would handle karo rather easily i would like to see him fight the winner of sanchez vs. alves he has already beaten both of those guys but they were exciting close fights

If Fitch can improve his game to the degree that GSP improved his, after his loss to Hughes, Fitch will be a force to reckon with. Everyone now knows that you will have to kill the guy to finish him.

TOTAL PROPS to Jon Fitch man, he is a warrior no doubt about it ..i fear for his next opponent ..! now bring on gsp/penn then gsp/silva BooYaa

Based on comments from Hughes that we read earlier, I’d like to see Hughes scheduled to be Fitch’s next victim, assuming he takes care of Serra. Either Hughes or Karo would be great for Fitch, as they are both guys that he’ll handle easily, and they’re both d*ckheads that deserve to get pummeled. Having said that, i don’t think Hughes or Karo are locks to win their next fights. GSP vs Penn aside, I’m struggling to pick who is now deserving of a title shot from GSP. Maybe the winner of Alves vs Sanchez?

I agree Fitch is the man, He gained a ton of respect going 5 tough rounds. I can’t wait for GSP/Penn then Penn/Silva

Call me a cynic, let me play devils advocate or maybe I see the glass half full but in Fitch’s last 3 fights he had a split decision win (meaning he barely won) to Sanchez, he had to go the distance with Chris Wilson whom, if you’re honest, no one had ever heard of (and we were all complaning about the choice of Wilson), and he just got annihilated by GSP. He’s tough yes but, we he has not impressed me, at all, in his last 3 fights. Being a human punching bag / tackling dumby for 5 rounds does not impress me. That’s just kinda how I see it.

I like Fitch, but I don’t think anything about the fight was a “gutsy performance” from his side. He got a pretty good beat-down, GSP dominated him in every fashion. This doesn’t say anything about Fitch, only about GSP. GSP is the same calibre as Emelianenko, A.Silva, BJ Penn – pure dominance in his weightclass.

So where does Fitch go from here? A change in weightclasses seems unlikely, so all he can do is beat other top contenders, making sure he gets another shot at GSP, maybe after (and if) BJ Penn wins against him.

To me Fitch is in the same position as Rich Franklin, a great MMA figher who found his cryptonite in A.Silva/GSP. It would be good if there was a parallel championship like the PrideFC model for such guys. On the one side the world champions, on the other Grand Prix Champions (same weight class or open-weight or both).

This would make the UFC actually exciting again, but I don’t see that happening with Dana and J.Silva on the button.

I think it should be Fitch/Serra next. I think that Hughes is out for a while.

1) To those who say Fitch had a lot of heart, it wasn’t proven in this fight (not saying he doesn’t have it, just that it wasn’t proven). I would agree that he’s tough and had good defense, but that’s different than having a lot of heart. At no point in the match did GSP have a firm submission hold on him, nor was GSP pounding the crap out of him for a "long" period of time. That’s when you can tell a fighter’s heart, whether he taps out or whether he can gather himself and overcome the situation. Sure, Fitch was beaten convincingly and his face showed it, but that was from GSP’s consistent strikes throught out the 25 minutes. No fighter would just tap out cuz he got hit a few times then move out of the way, then get hit a few times more.
Which leads me to point 2.

2) As dominate as GSP was in the fight, he still should have been able to finish Fitch off. He had a lot of opportunities to do it when he knocked down Fitch but was not able to capitalize on them. I remember at one point, Fitch was on his knees and GSP was just giving him these cheap jabs to the face. How did he expect to finish him like that? Another time, GSP was attempting the RNC but seemed like it was in slow motion. Obviously Fitch was able to get out of that and then got the dominant position.
GSP needs to do better than that to finish BJ. Albeit he may still win cuz of his athleticism.

Props to Fitch for totally getting his a@# handed to him! staying in there to take one of the worst beatings I’ve seen since Tito and Shamrock 1. I think his team should step up an force him to recover fully before getting in there again. With the damage caused to his face, head , body, ego and was totally schooled for 5 dominated rounds by GSP!! Last thing you want him to do is get hit once and land in a coma. As he is a warrior who was totally dominated, knocked out 3-4 times recovered quickly with a caved in face and fight defensively like my little brother for 5 rounds. He needs to heal fully before he gets in there with another tuff guy without fully recovering and ends up a losing quickly.

Dr Harry, CLearly you are either not a mixed martial artist or never been knocked out. The heart involved in keeping on going after you are dropped is intense!(Especialy in the few seconds after it happens) Fitch got dropped a few times and was in trouble in most of the drops. Or how about the series of knees in a row to the face he took, one in particular when he fell forward and ate a perfectly connected knee. I can garantee his body wanted to quit a few times.

About the reference of cheap jabs… how can you even say they were cheap. It was part of the strategy GSP had to scare fitch off so that he would think twice before exploding at him.
What do you mean by cheap anyways. THese are Jabs is not againt the rules. A good example of cheap would be Marquart’s spike on Leites

I will agree though that this fight was mostly GSP. There was only little effective offence for Fitch.

how many years at AKA? and still no kickboxing skills… c’mon Fitch!!

Give Fitch credit for taking a beating and incredible heart to continue on and I must say I am impressed with home quickly he recovers from each time he was stunned.

I think Jon would take Gsp if they fight again.

Wasn’t Fitch’s comment after the fight the funniest thing?

Journalist : Fitch, do you think you hurt GSP?

Fitch : I hope so (crowd laughing)… God I hope so (crowd laughing real hard).

Class all the way. He lost, he knows it, not looking for excuses. Makes even fun of himself. Good sportsmanship.

KARO SAID WHAT I DID,,,, THAT GSP WOULD ABSOLUTELY MAUL FITCH AND HE DID!! LOL!!

I like fitch I hope he can come back from this, he will defiantly be better from the experience. I still think hes 2nd best in the ww division but its a pretty good gap to gsp. If Alves can beat diego alves may be able to take gsp with standup but WHEN gsp decides its time to go to the ground ….In the words of Goldie " ITS ALL OVER, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!"

Damn Fitch, I think I am impressed more by how you lost versus how GSP won. I say feed Swick to Fitch next fight.

fitch needs a reality check! he will never beat GSP! the only way fitch will get the belt is if GSP gives it to him out of pity..LMAO

I LOVE HOW ALL THE GSP BASHERS HAVE DISAPPEARED AFTER GSP CRUSHED THEIR BOY FITCH…..LMAOMFERs!!!!!!!!!!!!!