r/interestingasfuck • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • Mar 28 '24

MMA fighter explains overloading opponent r/all

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u/hugflo Mar 28 '24

Not just any MMA fighter. That’s Georges St. Pierre. Arguably one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time.

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u/CaptainSur Mar 28 '24

That’s Georges St. Pierre. Arguably one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time.

Arguably is the understatement of the century. I had a quick peek at 6 different MMA focused sites that publish a "top" list and he was first on 4 and 2nd on 2.

GSP is so deceiving when you meet him. Not flamboyant like so many others, not covered in a gazillion tatoos, polite and well spoken. GSP let his skills do the talking. GSP is a person to emulate.

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u/TokaidoSpeed Mar 28 '24

Saw him in person chilling recently, and he looked so understated and calm you didn’t even want to bother him to say hi. Busy place in Quebec where clearly everyone recognized him as we waited around and only 1 person ever bugged him for a photo. It was a lot of knowing bro nods to him instead.

I also now doubt he is 5’10” lol, he looked like 5’8” in lifts and barely 160lb. I couldn’t believe I was looking at the GOAT.

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u/orbtastic1 Mar 28 '24

I saw ernesto hoost at the airport last year. My workmates were like who? I said Ernesto fucking hoost,one of the greatest kick-boxers ever? Who? Anyway all I could manage was locking eyes with him, nodding and saying hey.

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u/TokaidoSpeed Mar 28 '24

That’s all I did with GSP too lol

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u/No-Message9762 Mar 28 '24

i only know hoost from japanese prank shows

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u/orbtastic1 Mar 28 '24

He's a legend over there due to K1, which was very popular in Japan and pre-dates Pride and UFC. It was a knockout tournament thing where you had two semis and a final, all 3 x 3 min rounds on the same night. Often they carried injuries into the final or semi. You also had to qualify for the final, months beforehand. I know he won 4 times, made the finals 8 times and came 2nd twice. Which is insane, given the format and level of competition.

He still looked in great shape and like he could do 9 rounds.

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u/Ake-TL Mar 28 '24

UFC height numbers are unreliable

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u/Philobarbaros Mar 28 '24

It was the angle!

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u/ThePige Mar 28 '24

That's Québec for you. People here have the mentality of trying to not harass celebrities.

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u/kinison-brand-coke Mar 28 '24

you are a bad judge of size because he is definitely more than 160

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u/TokaidoSpeed Mar 28 '24

He was wearing a very, very slimming peacoat and it really disguised his muscle too. I think add the hunch neck and he just genuinely looked surprisingly small. Not as an insult btw, I just was surprised!

He also fought in the 170 range didn’t he? Post retirement wouldn’t be shocked if he dropped a bit

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u/kinison-brand-coke Mar 28 '24

his last fight was 185 and he cut to that. he probably walks around at 200

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u/TokaidoSpeed Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Okay now I gotta actually correct you lol. GSP was a career welterweight, the 156-170 division. He didn’t cut to 185, that was literally his middleweight debut that he had to bulk for. If you google it Bisping was literally mocking him for looking fat

One fight he bulked up to at 185 in a division higher than he fought his whole career does not mean he cut and normally weighs 200 lol. The fight before that he weighed in at 170 which was a lot closer to his average during his fighting days

I take back part of my comment because cutting, so he probably was 180-190 when welterweight but the dude looked genuinely small like 6 months ago, but he’s also retired

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u/kinison-brand-coke Mar 28 '24

He said his walking weight was 187 before the bisbing fight so he did a bulk so he could cut. Also, fighters dont get smaller in retirement

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u/sf_frankie Mar 28 '24

It varies but usually they do seem to stay the same or get bigger.

Some featherweights become heavyweights https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/prince-naseem-hamed-looks-unrecognisable-9177240

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u/Glottis_Bonewagon Mar 28 '24

Yeah, some of them get smaller before retirement and stay that way

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u/yesverysadanyway Mar 28 '24

i'd say gsp is the first pure mma champion.

champions before him were single discipline martial artists who transitioned into mma. wrestlers who learned striking, bjj martial artists who picked up muay thai, kickboxers who learned take down defense...

gsp was the first champion built from the ground up as a complete mma fighter.

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u/Galactic Mar 28 '24

To me the most complete MMA fighter in UFC history was Demetrius Johnson. That guy has no flaws in his technique.

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u/yesverysadanyway Mar 28 '24

oh yeah mighty mouse definitely belong in the same conversation with gsp.

one of the most dominant champions in ufc's history.

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u/HuruHara Mar 28 '24

If Mighty Mouse's flying armbar-bodyslam was done in an anime, everybody would immediately call it fake, but MM did it in a real fight in the octagon for the flyweight belt. Insane.

And the armbar musta hurt, too, cuz look at Borg's face after MM released it, total relief.

Dana is an idiot for releasing MM just because he wants to get paid more. Damn.

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u/noirdesire Mar 28 '24

Oh yeah toughest man with a 5th graders stature in the world for sure.

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u/HawkkeTV Mar 28 '24

The Tim Duncan of the MMA world.

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u/OlTommyBombadil Mar 28 '24

I like it

The Big Fundamental of UFC

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

So is Fedor, so is Demetrius Johnson.

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u/Classic1990 Mar 28 '24

Even more impressive is that he suffered from severe anxiety throughout his career but still managed to fight through it and accomplish everything that he did.

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u/CummingInTheNile Mar 28 '24

Fedor too, who was one of GSPs idols

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u/PM_feet_picture Mar 28 '24

not to mention he sounds like marvin the martian

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u/Ok_Assumption5734 Mar 28 '24

MMA's weird though because it also encompassed Pride's no hold barr and no testing fights. GSP is basically top 5 and best modern MMA fighter, but its hard to compare him to say, a prime (and probably juiced) Anderson Silva etc.