Sports_Nerd

The thing about GSP isn't that he lacks the ability to finish, it's that he isn't willing to take risks in order to finish. Even when he was rocked Condit couldn't stay on top of him for long, and yet he was never willing to risk his dominant position in favor of a sub attempt.

Which I'm perfectly fine with, myself. Win first, look good second.

OU

I completely disagree. The extent of him attempting to finish is attempting to cause cuts with elbows. He never throws anything with enough power to put someone out. I don't think GSP would have finished any top WW last night. I think even a guy like Douglas Lima would have survived just fine. Condit didn't do anything great himself either. I think many fighters could have put up an equal fight. Nothing impressive about either man IMO with that fight.

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Killz

Think We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I thought both fighters were looking for every opportunity they could to get the other into a finish worthy situation.

Just 2 tough dudes cancelling each other out IMO.

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OU

Yeah I'll agree to disagree. IMO Condit has been going in reverse, I blame Greg Jackson and that entire camp for awful gameplans in his last 2 fights. I think both GSP and Condit have had much, much better performances. Maybe both had a bit of ring rust? Nether seemed to have the cardio they have had in the past. Both have looked crisper in every way IMO. They didn't look like the best 2 WW in the world to me.

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dsmjrv

he looked the same

and the reason neither fighter looked on top of his game is because it really was the best 2 WW fighters out there, a lot of their strengths werent quite as strong or impressive as they normally seem because their opponent was able to somewhat cancel it out.. this wasnt your typical GSP clinic where he makes it look easy, and this wasn't carlos typical opponent where he neeeds only a round or two to find the answer and finish them.. it was a real fight which is strange, GSP earned a lot of respect this fight from fans and haters alike..

GrappleRetarded

Greg Jackson didn't gameplan Condit for the GSP fight, he had no part in his training camp what so ever.

Have you been living under a rock?

OU

It was the same game plan. I was talking about Jackson's camp, which he is still in charge of. Even if he didn't personally gameplan for either fighter, his finger prints were all over both men's gameplans...as usual. Be for real.

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tripster

Yes he definately looked much bigger. Thicker, more volume to his muscles and not quite as lean as he usually is.

For the ridiculous people out there who are translating "bigger" into "taller" refrain from commenting because you have no idea what you are saying. Obviously a 6'2" guy will look taller than a 5'10" guy but every other part of Condit was smaller - smaller arms, smaller legs, smaller shoulders, smaller torso, smaller calves, smaller abdomen... everything. How else would someone that tall be able to weigh in at 170... he can't be bigger!! Fools!!!

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Tripster

tripster

Agree. After all it is his gym. You think he is not going to it while Condit trains??? I think he had more to do with Condit's game plan than he did with GSP's.

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zarny

I would agree both Condit and GSP have had performances that looked better.

Coincidently, they were against weaker opponents.

How well a fighter's performance "looks" is entirely dependent on who their opponent is.

Maybe GSP and Condit have both looked "crisper" because those previous opponents simply weren't good enough to get out of the way.

As for gameplans...they only work if you can impose them on your opponent. It's not like Carlos' gameplan was to work submissions from the bottom all night. He said so himself.

GSP just didn't give him any other option.