(‘Of course I’m wearing me bandana. I’m not going to walk around during flu season without taking the necessary precautions, now am I?’)
Ever since the first installment of "UFC Primetime" in the run-up to last January’s Georges St. Pierre-B.J. Penn fight blew our collective minds, we’ve been waiting for Spike TV and the UFC to get together on another collaboration of slow-mo walking and carefully crafted storylines. Surely, we thought, they were waiting until they had an especially compelling title fight. Or, as we learned in an email from Spike TV today, a title fight that most people expect to be a total squash match.
Beginning on Wednesday, March 10, Spike will run a three-part "Primetime" series to hype the UFC 111 main event bout between GSP and Dan Hardy. Presumably this will be where they attempt to sell us on the idea that Hardy offers a considerable challenge to the welterweight champ, and that the oddsmakers who currently have St. Pierre pegged as a 6-1 favorite have no clue what they’re talking about.
The show is bound to be visually compelling with great production values, so it will still be worth watching. But didn’t we already get all the backstory we needed on GSP last time? And wouldn’t it be more fun to see this done for a future fight that seems a little more competitive?
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Why are some of you slagging on GSP about the legacy thing, anyway? I'd rather hear him talk about that than the same bullshit that everyone else says - "I'm doing it for my family", "I'm thinking of my kids when I go in the octagon", "I has a shitty childhood", blah blah blah.
The guy's 28 years old, has class, and if he retired tomorrow he would have the legacy that he's referred to. It'll be a while before someone as dominant and talented as him comes along. Anthony Johnson was looking good as a challenger until he got choked out by Koscheck, and we all know that Kos is in reality 1/3 as good as he thinks he is. Alves got dominated by an injured GSP and BJ Penn would be a fool to take another shot at the WW title while Georges is holding it. Fitch? His education truly began when he stepped in the ring with GSP, so who's left? Nobody. That's his legacy right there.
I for one respect the fact that the guy's honest about how he wants history to remember him, and he's doing a pretty good job at earning that place in the history books, hall of fame, and whatever else. If he never faces off against Silva, that's going to be a comparison that MMA aficionados are arguing about for a generation, which suggests that they're both legends while still competing, and that says a lot.
Yeah, I know, I sound all nut-huggy and shit. Didn't mean to - just calling it like I see it.