(Video courtesy of ESPN.com)
You want to know how focused Georges St. Pierre is for his fight with Dan Hardy at UFC 111? Not only is he not even considering the possibility of a life that continues beyond this Saturday night, he hasn’t even bothered to pay attention to the passage of time. He still thinks it’s January. God knows what year he might believe we’re living in. Doesn’t matter. He’s only thinking about finishing Hardy and making it a "clean" victory. Whether they’re fighting for gasoline and life credits in some futuristic hellscape, or whether they’ve traveled back to a time when Hardy’s post-fight wounds will be treated by a series of magic spells — the point is, GSP doesn’t care. All he knows is he’s got a job to do on Saturday, playa. Wouldn’t want to be Hardy right now, sitting around his hotel room and looking at the calendar like some chump.
After the jump, Frank Mir talks about Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin (who ESPN lists as 6’5"), and can’t help but get that old smirk on his face when the death threat comments get brought up.
… he’s always been good but i don’t think a webshow, as good as it may be, counts as mainstream)
I know you put that little bit in there about espn listing Carwin at 6’5″ to try and bait me into saying something about his height again but I’m not falling for…..SEE THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! EVERYWHERE I LOOK THE GUY HAS A DIFFERENT HEIGHT. I’M NOT SAYING HE’S THE ONE DOING IT, BUT GOOD LORD, YOU WOULD THINK THAT SINCE IT’S ONE OF 3 PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS THAT WE USE TO DESCRIBE A FIGHTER WE COULD DO BETTER THAN A MARGIN OF ERROR OF +/- 3 INCHES!!! THIS ISN’T A GALLUP POLL! HOW USEFUL WOULD THE REACH STATISTIC BE IF ONE DAY GSP CAME IN WITH A 75″ REACH AND THE NEXT FIGHT HE HAD A 70″ INCH REACH?
on that note, am I the only one that thinks the reach statistic is the most misleading stat that MMA and Boxing use? First off, our bodies are divided into two equal hemispheres, so anytime Goldie says that so and so has a six inch reach advantage, those six inches are divided equally on both sides. This means that until a fighter walks into the ring with both arms on one side of his body (and one of those arms beginning where the first one ends) a six inch advantage is actually a 3 inch advantage. Even that doesn’t tell the full story, since reach is measured with your fingers extended and punches are thrown with fingers tucked. A person whose middle finger, from knuckle to tip, is, let’s say, half an inch longer than someone else’s, would appear to have a 1 inch reach advantage that wasn’t actually an advantage at all (unless that person is Kevin Burns).
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