GSP sucks, he’s boring, his accent is terrible, he’s ugly…I can’t wait for him to get smashed!

LOL! Hater!!! GSP will not overlook Alves, he will be focused, and he will whoop his @$$!!!!!!!!!

ok noob. so you like the attractive fighters?

Yeah, you’re right, he sucks because English wasn’t his first language. I guess Fedor, Anderson Silva, Shogun, Nogueira, Aoki all suck too. Yeehaw!

He’s ugly ya’ll. He’s no doubt in for a loss since he is ugly. You want to talk about ugly, let’s talk about the Nog brothers, Randy’s ears and Fedor’s physique. Ugliness aside, those are all great fighters as is GSP. Top 3 P4P hater.

i dont like GSP any more… i used to but now he is just boring… he still shows glimpses of his great stand up but he just seems to prefer to take the fight to the ground lie on his opponents for a bit eventually pass the guard and throw little 5 inch hammer fists for 5 rounds…. and yeah it does work it is smart but it is something i do not like seeing …. especially in a main event

before i get any replies about me bashing GSP and how i am totally wrong let me just make it clear that i’m not saying he is rubbish because he is obviously not he is a great fighter and his strategy is very smart and works for him

i hope Alves wins but it’ll be hard but not impossible… i think if there was anyone who could beat GSP at WW atm it would be him

Those bombs Penn was getting smashed with didn’t look like “five inch hammer fists” to me. And he didn’t exactly lie on top of Fitch ( undisputedly a top 5 WW) for five rounds, he kicked the crap out of him all over the octagon. I think you are confused.

bombs?? lmao is that why it took him 4 rounds (2 and a half of solid ground n pound) to finish penn off?? bombs haha

if he was landing these so called ‘bombs’ GSP would of finished him earlier because GSP has power

he was wearing him down with hammer fists from close range you might want to watch the fight again… he landed a few big punches a round and that is about it… that isn’t a lot considering he had the fight on the ground for the majority of the rounds

okay he didnt have him on the ground round 1 but he was on the ground for half of round 2 and the majority of 3 and 4… it doesn’t take someone who’s landing ‘bombs’ 2 and a half rounds to finish the fight

and i’ll give you the fitch fight… he dominated that on the feet and on the ground that was entertaining

Um, those were bombs.

Penn has an iron chin and admitted to being essentially knocked out after the second round. It is hard to get full leverage on your shots when in half-guard.

GSP probably could have gone all out and finished him sooner but he didn’t want to risk getting arm-bar’d or triangled. He wanted to school Penn and completely dominate him to prove a point. He did just that.

they weren’t bombs… you just said it yourself it’s hard to get full leverage on your shots from half guard that’s why he was throwing hammer fists from close range because if he would of postured up and rained down punches bj probably would of wasted no time getting back to his feet

and i would like to see this interview of him admitting he was knocked out… i visit a lot of mma news sites everyday watch all the post fight press conferences, even visit fighters sites and have not once heard him say that

Whatever dude, call ‘em what you want, GSP was posturing up and throwing full power shots at Penn, and BJ’s head was literally bouncing off the mat.

As for the interview, Wiki BJ Penn and read the “challenging foir the WW title” segment… here’s an exerpt:

“Penn later admitted that he couldn’t recall anything that happened during the 3rd and 4th rounds because “I was probably borderline knocked out or something.”

I guess BJ’s famously iron jaw allowed him to be knocked silly with pitter-pat hammerfists… amazing.

Who cares! If your a GSP fan, you get to see victories. I look forward to watching this victory. I don’t think Alves is a joke in any way, but neither was Fitch. GSP will do to Alves what Machida did to Thiago Silva. i.e, make a great fighter look like he doesn’t belong there.

I’m with the vagina-puncher.

do not underestimate the power of the hammer fist look at the brock/couture fight for reference… brock throws the hardest, shortest hammer fist i’ve ever seen

they dont look like much but they do damage

anyways alves by tko

i think alves will get the w. aslong as alves can stuff the takedowns this fight is all his

it says he was borderline knocked out at the end of round 4… i think everyone knew that

It does NOT say that.

Penn says he could not remember the THIRD OR FOURTH rounds because he was “borderline knocked out”. He took some huge shots in the second round. I can’t believe I am even arguing this. If you think hammerfists are what damaged Penn in that fight you are delusional.

And your above posts seem to suggest that you believed he was NOT borderline knocked out… you even go so far as to question the legitimacy of my quote.

Now that you’ve seen evidence to the contrary, you not only misquote the article but have the gall to suggest that “everyone” already knew he was borderline knocked out (although it is obvious from your initial posts that you did NOT believe this to be the case).

Pretty wishy-wash argument, and I’m sure “everyone” would agree.

no i never quoted the article and i was suggesting he was not knocked out at the end of round 2 like you said he said … even though he never! thats what i was arguing about… your Bull poo claims

No offense John mi amigo,but the only chances Alves has in this fight is if GSP cant take him down and control him.Which is unlikely becuz Karo took him down first round,hughes took him down on top of the size advantage and the only reason kos couldnt take him down becuz most of his attempts were against the cage trying to pass under hooks.Kos should have thrown more leg kicks for damage and points in that fight but hes a pussy whos afraid to get hit.He has a way better chance on the feet than kos or anyone else and i believe if backed into a corner,if GSP uses his footwork and elusiveness correctly he can out strike Alves on the feet and possibly finish him off.

Like rashad evans said, gsp is going to dismantle alves. Ill put up 1k against anyone who thinks alves is going to win this fight. GSP spars regurlaly one after with the likes of marquardt, jardine, carwin, and rashad all fighters that would destroy alves, and the amazing thing is none of them can touch him. BELIEVE ME if rashad evans gets taken down at will by GSP, and dominated in the standup, alves wont do stand a chance. Rashad is problably around 225 in training, so alves size wont affect him, and after going up against carwin, gsp will toss alves around like a rag doll. people dont realize that gsp trains with HW olympic wrestlers, WBA champion boxers, the best BJJ in brazil, and he is the most athletic fighter in MMA. HE IS ALSO THE STRONGEST ww by far, doesnt matter if alves outweighs him, like jardine said he is stronger than most LHWs, his strenght is insane, doing millitary presses with 145lb dumbells, pullups with 200 lbs strapped to his waste, he tosses wrestlers like hughes who have gorilla strenght around like rag dolls. Alves wont win a round, he has to constantly watch for being taken down, so he cant committ to full striking. GSP will mix it up, and it will soon be like the bj fight, where alves wont know when bj is punching or taking him down. GSP is much faster and athletic than anyone whic means he improves faster than anyone. alves wont win a round.

So i take it you think Alves is going to win.

nick J: YOu asking me that question? I think he has a better shot at 170 lbs then anyone else in the world against GSP. so good of a shot that I will bet a nice amount on Alves in hopes of the upset!

but of course GSP is the favorite….and rightfully so!

john,you can be sure that,i will remember your comment on july 11.I don’t want to start bashing at every thing that you said,it will be too long.But be assured,i save your post and we will talk about it when the time comes!

dtotorica, great post, I don’t think people realize how freakishly strong GSP really is. Alves won’t seem big to him at all. Marquardt is one of the smallest guys GSP trains with. Rashad knows GSP will destroy Alves, because he know how hard of a time he has with him in training. I agree that Alves striking won’t look so hot when he is constantly warry of the take down.

Alves gets the edge if this was a kickboxing match. But standing in MMA is different…Alves is gonna be thinkin of the takedown, whereas GSP knows Alves wants to keep it standing.

Bj has better takedown defence than Alves, and look what GSP did to him.

GSP has hands down the best MMA wrestling in the UFC. If it were a pure wrestling match, someone like Kos might beat him but when you mix in strikes I dont see Alves winning this one.

GSP-Silva Superbowl weekend 2010! That is the biggest PPV of the year for the UFC and I’m sure Dana doesnt want to waste a superfight.

bull, i would say Randy has by far the best MMA wrestling. GSP is great, but Randy out wrestled Vanaresdale, maybe the best pure wrestler in MMA.

Randy didn’t outwrestle Brock

He took him down, that is amazing considering he out weighed him by 35 pounds. Brock didn’t out wrestle Randy either, he caught him right behind the ear.

John thought that Thales was going to win too though.

YOu wont find a single post on mmamanis saying that “Leites was going to win the fight” with the name JOHN next to it!

Oh how I laughed when I read that!!!!!!!!
I didn’t think you’d pick Leites for a second, I see your reasoinin for picking Alves for this fight. Really interestin points about how he hasn’t had damage done to him like Alves can do……but can Thiago contain the pressure GSP is famous for. I don’t think so

You were swinging from Thales’ sack john! I guess if you keep picking or leaning towards the underdog, eventually you will be right.

yeah there right, john was hyping leites saying hes pretty much the 2nd best mw and that hed beat henderson and franklin and a bunch of other stuff

GO back and read my posts….I was still wrong, but I said that I expect Silva to win, but Leites will be Anderson’s toughest fight since joining the UFC….I was so wrong, and already admitted it in previous posts….but get your damn facts straight if you are going to come at me….I couldnt be that bad at picking fights, I went 4 for 4 on Saturday on my bets….

You have a lot of balls coming at me…. I have picked countless main card upsets over the past couple of years…not only have I picked them, but I had the stones to bet on them. At least I am willing to put my money where my mouth is….Can u say the same!

and I was clearly wrong about Leites being silva’s toughest fight, but then again, has anyone else made it to a decision against Anderson since he has joined the UFC? hahahaha

Irish Kev: I just pointed out what Alves needs to do to win. Whether he can do it or not remains to be seen, but I dont think my above post is that far fetched. I think Alves has the best chance of beating gSP at 170 lbs then anyone else in this entire world. U bring up a great point as well, CAN ALVES deal with the continued pace that GSP will bring? THAT IS THE BIG QUESTION that will DECIDE this fight!

same bj was one of my favorite fighters but he pissed me so much after all the grease allegations i just couldnt care less if he dropped dead. if he wouldve just said good fight george your the better fighter, nothing wouldve changed, i wouldnt still been a huge fan, but he cried to his mom and cause a pointless shitstorm

Same here. I actually threw away my RVCA BJ shirt because he exposed himself as such a little whiney bitch that can’t back up his words.