Dan Hardy: Georges St. Pierre plays it safe to keep his belt

…..Standing and trying to knock people out. Unfortunately it didn’t pay off this time because he met someone who was able to nullify his boxing. Should we start to blame Hardy because he can’t wrestle worth shit or stop a take-down to save his life? Hey Hardy….if you want the fight to go in your direction, do something about it and stop your opponent.

war Hardy

with what he said there. dude’s got respect

Its easy to say that right after you were just worked for 5 straight rounds. Title shots dont come quick and easy and Im sure no one out there holding one is going to try and fight so recklessly that they can potentially lose. Im sure Champions mind sets are a little differant going into these title defense situations. GSP learned from his lack of respect the night Serra KO’D him. I have never seen a boring GSP fight, I look forward to watching him more than anybody. Its fun to watch how easily he dominates his opponents and these are title contenders lol!!

I’m sorry but watching a “champion” lay on top of a guy for 5 rounds and do little ground and pound is boring. The most exciting moments were when he almost pulled of the submissions.

Blah blah blah, I’ve already conceited that GSP is a great fighter, a class act, etc. But you compare him with the other champions and only Jake Shields is more boring:

More Exciting champions: BJ, AS, Machida, Brock & Fedor
Less Exciting: Shields

I gained respect for Hardy after the fight. No body gave him a chance surviving on his back for a few minutes let alone 25 minutes with GSP, but he did.
 As far as GSP goes I’ve been saying this for the past year or so, but there is only a few people with extensive and old school MMA knowledge who’ll agree with me. GSP isn’t the best WW of all time nor is he even close to P4P best. Simply because he doesn’t finish he fights. He rides top position for 25 mintues and earns decisions because he knows how much judges look at takedowns and top control with little regard for what the person the bottom does to keep themselves in the fight. People bash on Sherk and Tito for riding out decisions, but yet GSP is god because he’s in Gatorade and Underarmor commercials lol. LAME.
GSP knows his strengths and plays with them very well, but it’s starting to get very repetitive and boring. His last entertaining fight was against Hughes. So, just because all of you have secret man-crushes on GSP doesn’t mean he is GOD of MMA..

then how could you have not like the when he put the smackdown on BJ. That was just a relentless beating, you had to have liked that one……..come on now!!

GSP Does indeed play it safe.. I would like to see the old GSp that fought JAY Hieron that was a great fight

 Exciting before he lost to serra…….well I agree and disagree with that. I used to be a big gsp fan, I’m still a fan but was very disappointed with his last fight, and still am baffled by his weak ground and pound. A good part of it could be that hardy is extremely and deceptively strong and nullified his g’np. I’ve seen pretty much all of his fights, his UFC debut with karo and guess what? Gsp took him down most of the fight..lol, gsp’s oldest fights are mostly on the ground. He started karate at 7 and was learning MMA by 18, he had very solid stand up skills and has stated I don’t know how many times early in his career that his favorite method of finishing a fighter is by ground and pound or submission, like his idol matt hughes.

GSP was called “Rush” because he rushed in aggressively and either ground and pounded out his opponent or subbed them…but lets be honest most of them were cans. Hid first real test was when he came to the UFC and fought karo, surprisingly taking him down almost every chance he got, even though it was obvious he had superior stand up skills.

His most entertaining fight of all time was a decision win he had with jason miller, a wicked fight, gsp really shined and let people see what he was capable of, but miller is a tough sob and gsp couldn’t finish him but it was a very entertaining fight.

I agree gsp’s fight’s pre serra/gsp 1 were his best but some of that had to be attributed to the fact the he didn’t have the belt, had so many fans he didn’t want to disappoint by an embarrassing loss, had never been t’ko’d, humiliated, but serra t’koing gsp IMO has shaken his confidence of taking a good punch unlike in the past. Pre bj/gsp 1 he had never bled before and the upper cut that caused his nose to bleed so much and the eye jab, really shook him up.

Lets look at his fights since he lost to serra..
1.koscheck- you could tell gsp was trying to put koscheck on his back and out of his comfort zone and submit him but was unable the first 2 rounds. The third round he stood with him and totally outclassed him on the feet causing koscheck to go for the take down, which resulting in gsp gaining top control and gsp winning the decision-average fight IMO
2.Hughes- Hughes was on a mission to take gsp down and wanted no part of his stand up, but he was too slow, gsp too fast and strong and gsp man handled hughes and secured an armbar, making hughes take verbally…lol great fight IMO.
3.Serra-Gsp wants no part of serra’s stand up and doesn’t want a repeat of there first fight, man handles serra, serra constandly turtles up and loses eventually by getting kneed-tko-average fight-nothing to write home about.
4.fitch-Gsp knows hes has the speed and striking advantage here and beats the tar out of fitch, the fight was on the ground at times mainly because gsp dropped him there with a punch. Fitch is a very tough guy and somehow survived, but took a major beating-good fight, I loved watching fitch get hammered.
5.penn-grudge match for penn-his first being a controversial fight and this fight more so. I don’t want to go into it but gsp owned penn after an even first round, taking penn down and pounding him out similar to penns last fight with hughes. Penn/corner quits after 3 rounds of g’np. decent fight and a great one for gsp fans.
6.Alves-gsp obviously had no intention of standing much with him and again was going for a submision, alves weakest link but his offense and strength was too much, gsp injures a groin in the forth gsp winning a dominating decision-ok fight and great one if you love great takedowns.
7.Hardy-one of gsp’s most boring fights yet IMO but would be amazing if you loved takedowns. GSP looked surprisingly good standing the few minutes he stood in the second round but seemed hell bent on “the beautiful finish” aka not harming his opponent brutally and with a submission. Came close twice but hardy survives and makes it to a decision.

I can see both sides of the gsp debate, he really does do everything in his power to fight his opponents at there weakest points. His last 4 opponents weakest and strongest points. Fitch weakest-standup-strongest wrestling..gsp stood with him. Penn strenghts very fast hands and great bjj weakness, not really any but his conditioning will aways be inferior to gsp….gsp wanted to g’np him. Alves strenghts very good stand up, weakest link grappling gsp trying subbing or g’np him and the same with hardy with hardy having a weaker ground game and lacking alves kicks. Pretty much in everyfight gsp fights opponents at there weakest not strongest point. Brock lesnar does this, machida does this, anderson silva does this…he pretty much won’t go to the ground with almost anyone. Bj penn prefers to stand and bang. None of the above have being ko’d, it would be interesting to see how how they would fight after that. GSP does takes the fight to the ground and standing more so than bj,silva or machida. I myself was disappointed with gsp/hardy in general with both guys, hardy looked awful, so much for “fist to face as often as possible” he had a few minutes in the second round. OMG this is one of my longest posts I doubt anyone with read all of this lol but since this is talk of the town I’ll throw in my 2 centsx100.