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During the six-month layoff following his last title defense against Thiago Alves, Georges St. Pierre has been in the gym, getting even more jacked. Now walking around at 193 pounds of lean muscle, GSP is contemplating a move up to middleweight, and discusses what that would entail in the interview above. First off, he’d have to get even larger, and he’d do it through diet, not steroids, which is good to know. Also, the move would be permanent; he’s not interested in the back-and-forth weight-hopping done by guys like Anderson Silva and Dan Henderson. But like so many other UFC stars, he has no interest in fighting his friends and training partners, which include Nate Marquardt, Patrick Cote, and Denis Kang: "If I’m in mount position, and it’s time to land that big hellbow that will leave a scar on the forehead of my friend and knock him out cold with cerebral damage, if he’s my friend I will never do that." Good Lord, whatever happened to putting personal loyalties aside in the name of a paycheck?
Related: Diego Sanchez reportedly posted the message "Going back to 170" on his Facebook page last night, but it has since been removed. According to Sanchez’s manager, Jeff Clark, no decision has been made at this time regarding what weight class he will compete in next.
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commentsSilva is a great fighter, but in terms records, and tougher fighters, GSP has fought tougher fighters than silva has.
The ONLY way silva could win would be to get a serra lucky punch in. Silva nut huggers will talk about how he dominated griffin...wow!! Dominated griffin.....did anyone think otherwise..griffin is slow, very slow...its not much to brag about. Silva barely contained hendo. If hendo didnt gas, he would have beat silva.Never seen GSP gas, hes as good as hendo on the ground if not better, and hes twice as fast....silva wouldnt have much of a chance. I think Belfort would be the only one to give GSP a run, cause hes got the explosive speed. Silva is over rated.
As for all the competitors in the UFC that Silva's faced so far, none have really taken the fight to Silva, save perhaps Henderson. GSP fights like a machine, constantly pushing the pace, working for position and angles, and I can't recall ever seeing GSP gas out.
Silva wants to fight the best, GSP's one of the best P4P. Should GSP move up to MW and have success... it'll be a hell of a lot harder for DW not to give him a shot at Silva.
It's a bonafide superfight... and if GSP shocked the world, then there's another huge payday in the rematch. And as another poster commented already, WW would become interesting again.
Sometimes change is good. As with most pro sports, there comes a time where you have to face bigger, stronger, and faster athletes to keep pushing yourself, to become better. When you're the top dog, and none of the prospective challengers or opponents are worthy, things become stale and uninteresting.
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 12:47
I'm making a list! A list of people I will bash without mercy when Marquardt pulls it out.
So far it looks like this:
G Funk
Squirrelnuts
If Nate loses please disregard this without mention. Ktnxbai!
A bit ironic that G Funk wouldn't represent for Nate Dogg, amiright?
So, are all of you on pcp or what? Why is anyone even still interested in a GSP vs Silva fight? Wasn't Fujita vs Overeem enough? You want to see it again? GSP could probably take out about 70-75% of the guys at MW, but I am pretty certain the top few would have no problem with him. Can you imagine him beating Dan Henderson? I can't.
(He's right about the weight too). It's much easier to go up than go down, and he is correct about not bouncing around in weight, it's not good to do that to your body and it doesn't look good for the competitors in those weight classes.
(Imo).
So far it looks like this:
G Funk
Squirrelnuts
If Nate loses please disregard this without mention. Ktnxbai!
Its also annoying how you guys talk about all these fights like they're foregone conclusions. Like GSP is gonna run through the MW division and fight Silva for the strap.
First of all Vitor and Nate the Great are perfectly capable of beating Silva. He's only just a man.
Secondly GSP better pray to God they don't give him Palhares ( who is not only a bamf, but is also a threat to Silva.) I don't think he'll have as easy of a time as you all think.
I wish GSP's stand up was as good as Nate the great.
Hate to see what happened to Penn happen to GSP. Maybe intro fights to the weight class to prove himself won't make a difference when he fights anderson, maybe it will. I think GSP has earned his spot in the UFC HoF by now for what he has done in WW, no matter what happens in the future for him.
Can't make any predictions about Rush vs Spider, but i would think GSP would make it into the top 3 at MW quickly and easily.
Cute story you have there bub. But as we all know, that kind of punching power requires 1.21 Gigawatts of power, a level approached only by powerhouse heavy hitters like Shane Carwin (ie: KO of Wellisch). Even then, you'd need to be able to reach speeds in excess of 88mph to accomplish such a feat. Anywhoo you're story obviously lacks some of these key points so I'm giving you a B+
...and I'm being mighty generous (as usual).
He'll shock the world by being the first person to be punched in to the future. A future where Anderson Silva is revered as a living god and rules all with an iron, brazilian fist. There'll be no war, no hatred and no bigotry in this time as any and all disagreements in this future are settled by Lord Silva himself.
Nate will spend many months in this time; studying all aspects of Andersonism and learning all he can and trying to better himself as a human being, before humbly bowing down before Lord Silva and asking to be punched back in time so he can spread the Word Of Anderson to the uneducated people. People like Kimbo's Bread, for example.
ala BJ
If he's done dominating his weight division, I'd be more proud of GSP if he stpped out of the UFC and either gave another organization a shot or went into something else. That whole weight switching thing has been played to death. But that's just my opinion.
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