UFC Quick Quote: Georges St. Pierre asks Gegard Mousasi to help him prepare for Dan Hardy

Love both these fighters! Was thrilled to read this and find out they are training together! True professionals! GSP is one scary mother, and only getting scarier. After he kills Hardy and claims yet another victim, he should be known as the Grim Reaper!

GSP is an amazing fighter, and the most complete mixed martial artist in the game today. But let’s see how he does when he moves out of his natural weight class. BJ may have lost to him twice, but he did it fighting against a very big WW and the best of all time at that.

If GSP ever moves up he won’t be able to manhandle guys like he does at WW. And fighting AS would be a mistake because he will get KO’d. I have nothing but respect for GSP. He is a class act and one of the best in the game. BJ made his bed by talking trash leading up to the fight, but give him credit for going after it. He could stay in the LW division and dominate for years. No one is even close to him there. Instead he is looking to go back up and challege GSP again after the beating he took last time.

I’m not saying BJ will beat him, but if they fight again I think it will be much more competitive. BJ should have to beat one solid WW and then either Alves or Fitch to get the shot, IMO. Maybe they will give him Hughes as a first fight, but I would prefer to see him fight Kos first. A couple fights at WW will have BJ more acclimatized at the weight class before he takes on GSP, which should help a little.

It would take the performance of Penn’s career to beat GSP, because if ever there was a guy that was BJ Penn’s kryptonite it would be him. But I would never put it past Penn.

BJ gets trashed a lot for various reasons but very few guys have the guts and self-belief to challenge the best in the world in higher weight classes. The fight he had with Machida (who was fighting as a HW) was damn close and look where Lyoto is now. The first fight with GSP was damn close. And he beat Hughes back when Hughes was invincible. Only AS has that kind of range outside of his weight class.

I think GSP will still ba able to man handle a % of MW tho. But i agree not the elite ones. Look how big Alves is. Prolly at 200 when the fight happened, and GSP beat him up, well atleast dominated him and did what he wanted. I am really interested to see how he will look. Reserving my judgement untill me ACTUALLY see him fight at MW. PS. Georges walks around at 195-200 now. And not an unhealthy 200 at that!

GSP walks around at 193 as of his last interview on the subject. If he went up to MW he would probably put on another 7-10 lbs at least.

But bear in mind he is only 5’ 10. That’s a perfect height for WW, but small for MW. Look at the size of guys like Marquardt, Franklin (should he return to MW), AS, Hendo, Wandy, Belfort, etc.

GSP would still be able to take guys down, but it would be more taxing. He would be an average sized MW at best. And he’d have to deal with the added power in striking. His only real weakness is that he can be tagged and put out. Not that it’s a weakness because you could say that about anyone, but I don’t think GSP has a granite chin like a Hendo, or a BJ Penn for example. I think he has a good chin, but he doesn’t want to be eating strikes from the likes of AS, that’s for sure.