Yeah, that happened.
Ever since the UFC purchased Strikeforce, it has been business as usual. Well, for some things at least. Georges St. Pierre and Jose Aldo are still the kings of their respective weight classes. Jumping karate kicks are still incredibly badass. A stadium full of over 55,000 fans could get pretty loud. You know, business as usual.
Georges St. Pierre extended his winning streak to nine fights last night in convincing fashion, exhibiting his superior stand-up skills en route to a unanimous decision victory over Jake Shields. While Jake Shields displayed much better striking last night than anything we’ve grown accustomed to seeing from him, he was also unable to get the fight to the ground. Oh well, on to Anderson Silva now, right?
Well, not exactly. GSP didn’t hide that he hasn’t committed to moving up to middleweight, and Anderson Silva still has to beat Yushin Okami for this to happen. Oh yeah, there’s also one minor issue: Dana White seems interested in seeing GSP fight Nick Diaz. But can Dana White really make this fight happen? In the “business as usual” manner we’ve come to expect, Dana White said, “I imagine I could do whatever I wanted to do if I really wanted. But we have a contract with Showtime, and he’s a Strikeforce fighter. We’ll see how it works out, but that’s an interesting fight.” For what it’s worth, Jake Shields also likes the idea of Diaz vs. GSP.
If there is such a thing as winning during a loss, Mark Hominick managed to do so last night. Faced with a seemingly indestructible Jose Aldo, Hominick showed a lot of heart by managing to steal the final round from the champion (at least on two of the judges’ score cards). While Aldo was complimentary of Hominick after the fight, he also let it be known that Hominick didn’t exactly live up to his pre-fight promise of hitting Aldo harder than he’s ever been hit. During the post-fight press conference, Jose Aldo laughed and said, “I talk with Anderson [Silva] a lot and like he says, ‘Even a parrot can talk.’”
As for Aldo’s next opponent, it appears that he will be fighting Team Alpha Male’s Chad Mendes next. While Dana White admitted that he hasn’t talked to Mendes about fighting Jose Aldo yet, UFC’s return to Philadelphia (UFC 133, August 6) will more than likely host the fight. Wild speculation, but I imagine that Urijah Faber will have Mendes checking kicks.
One final example of “business as usual” that should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: Steven Seagal is still an incredibly dislikable human being. Seagal caught up with mmafighting.com for an interview last night. About halfway thought, he literally stops the interview to answer his phone. It is what it is.
Main Card Results:
Georges St-Pierre def. jake Shields via unanimous decision (50-45, 48-47, 48-47) – defends welterweight title
Jose Aldo def. Mark Hominick via unanimous decision (48-45, 48-46, 49-46) – defends featherweight title
Lyoto Machida def. Randy Couture via KO (kick) – Round 2, 1:09
Vladimir Matyushenko def. Jason Brilz via KO (punches) – Round 1, 0:20
Ben Henderson def. Mark Bocek via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)
-Seth Falvo
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commentsIt's not a sport, it is used to defend yourself, and fuck up your attacker badly. van damme is a joke regardless of his piddly small competition he did back when he was 20.
Seagal is an actor with a real skill dude. aikido is not a fake martial art...so I'm not sure if you are being stupid or what.
you can't compare movies to what he can really do, and you certainly cannot compare his younger self to his older self now, that is also just dumb.
you dont have to like seagal but you cannot say aikido is fake or lame cause thats just ignorant.
Thats like saying because Bruce Lee made movies he was fake. get a grip man.
Van damme actually competed and has fought at a pretty reasonable level...simple google skills could of taught you that..how many fights has Seagal been in?
I'm no fan of that idiot Van Damme but Seagal is a joke..everything he does is stunt doubled and the little he does manage to get his fat ass to do is sped up...he's an actor I can't believe I have to spell this out for you....now that I think about I know you're not that stupid you're being ironic right?
you are one negative little bitch about anything on here. get some pussy or smoke a bowl of some good. stop to smell the roses...then jump in them.
A)It's always exciting taking a GSP to win via decision at plus money. Seriously guys, stop looking at this as boring and start getting paid from it.
B)Look what Hominick did in his fight against Aldo versus what Shields did against GSP, that will show you were the blame should lie with the WW title fight being boring. Shields brought it on, but way too late. Like Danaher said, Shields has the equivalent of a KO punch in his Guillotine, would you want to tempt that if you were GSP? If you were Shields, would you not want to try everything in your power to try and set something up on the ground? At the end of the day, Shields couldn't get the fight where he needed because GSP was too good. It's not GSP's fault Jake does not know what to do when he get's blasted in a fight.
GSP is for the fight savy fan, you can almost control him from your couch at home, if GSP is in there with a great grappler, watch for the fight to stay standing, if GSP is the better grappler, look for the fight to go to the ground. It may not always be the most entertaining thing to watch, but that's why they have about ten other fights to show you every night GSP fights.
I think GSP was just overly-cautious about Shields' ground game. We've all seen Shields take people down, blanket them, and win rounds. I think GSP had a good game plan last night: win the striking battle without overextending himself and leaving himself vulnerable to being taken down. I don't know when in the first round he hurt his eye, but it's tough to rag the guy for being off after that. I think he started out slow because he was being cautious of the takedown and then he was blind in one eye most of the fight after that. I don't hate on that, at all. I thought Hominick showed great heart but for anyone to compare Hominick's heart to GSP's in those respective fights (as another poster did) is completely unfair-- Hominick knew he was losing, GSP knew he was winning. If you're hurt and ahead (and you can't see punches coming), do you really go all out for a risky KO? I wouldn't. And I don't blame GSP for not doing it, either.
B) Haters are going to hate, apparently. GSP was throwing bombs all night and staggered Shields a couple times. Even if one of those punches had landed flush and KO'd Shields, I imagine haters would still find some way to discount it. Ridiculous. He was trying to win the fight and he was trying to finish. I read one comment that someone was complaining that GSP didn't throw any combos and wasn't trying to knock Shields out-- and whoever it was said that despite the fact that he was throwing a jab/overhand right combo THE ENTIRE FIGHT that had bad intentions behind it every time. Incredible to me that we could have had the EXACT same fight happen with just one of those overhand rights catching Shields just right and certain peoples' perception of the entire fight would be changed. Hating GSP is just ignorance. Period.
And about Seagall, if one more of "his fighters" pulls off a sick KTFO finish like this again, the man will be worshiped, as he should be.
Steven Seagal answered his phone cause his wife and kid was calling, this wasn't a hollywood job where hes getting paid millions, it was a little small time MMA reporter (I like Helwani, but hes no big shot), and he wasn't getting paid he had the right to answer his phone. it makes him real, not a fake ass douchebag who pretends shit.
His skills are real, and the things he is teaching others is real. You can think otherwise or laugh all you want, a younger Steven seagal would be untouchable in any fight.
so get over yourself, your opinion is stupid and childish, and comes off as jealous and bitter.
Thatt being said, there is no way Shields won any of those rounds. He did absolutely nothing in that fight to hurt GSP. He caught him with one good punch the entire fight and it bloodied his nose. That was his entire offense. Oh and a knuckle to the eye, but other than that I don't know of a single strike he landed cleanly. St Pierre was blasting his dome every round with that haymaker.
If I had Photoshop, that would already be done.
GSP shouldn't be allowed to move from 170 until he finishes everyone put infront of him.
Homminik is the ****'n man.
Segal's haters can now GTFO. He obviously knows how to strike and can pass it onto new fighters.
I'm asking rhetorical questions that I already know the answer to: no killer instinct and a definite lack of confidence in his abilities.
It was blatantly apparent that GSP was the superior striker. On top of that, he shrugged off a take down attempt, and then easily took Shields down when presented with an opportunity.
What the hell was with those overhand rights? He needs to get Dan Henderson in there to show him how it's done.
It's a fact that Nick Diaz is not as likable as GSP. However, I'm not one of those people who flocks around his latest controversial interview like a bitch on celebrity gossip. I think he's a phenomenal fighter, may he be the rain-man of MMA or not.
I'd like to see Nick Diaz push for a fight against GSP, and really take it seriously. I think underneath that whole 'tough-guy from the slums' exterior lies quite possibly the true 170-pound champion.
He looked clean at the end of the 4th. GSP looked like processed hamburger meat. He obviously wasn't landing more shots, but it seemed like what GSP landed was weak too. This is a guy who mounted Dan Henderson for 4 rounds, doing what i generously call GnP....and didn't so much as leave a bruise. It seems his standup and power has improved vastly since then, and it hasn't been THAT long. Nevermind the fact that he accounted for himself in the standup MUCH better than Koscheck, and if those two fought, I imagine Jake Shields would again be labeled the underdog. Food for thought. Btw, that'd be a great fight.
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