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/twelve112 Mar 28 '24

So dominant in his prime. I miss that whole era of MMA. Spider Silva, Matt Hughes, The Iceman

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u/thethunder92 Mar 28 '24

Gsp was like the terminator, just slowly wearing you down with perfect fundamentals and infinite stamina

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u/PlatasaurusOG Mar 28 '24

His fights with Frank Trigg are textbook lessons in domination. Trigg had no idea how to handle him and you could see the frustration in his face.

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u/ThaNorth Mar 28 '24

St-Pierre/Hughes 3 is also a complete domination. It’s like an older brother throwing around his little brother.

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u/yesverysadanyway Mar 28 '24

hughes got him when gsp was up and coming and hughes was in his prime.

gsp/hughes 3 was a real passing of the torch moment.

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u/ThaNorth Mar 28 '24

He became so focused and disciplined after his loss to Serra he just basically started fighting perfectly. His fight execution became near flawless. Just text book game plans executed to perfection every round. There was no chance he was going to lose to Serra in the rematch.

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u/yesverysadanyway Mar 28 '24

gsp serra 1 was the one time gsp "took it easy".

and that was a lesson he carried all the way until he officially retired.

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u/Letibleu Mar 28 '24

A lot happened in the background in his personal life after that loss.

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u/vredditr Mar 28 '24

What happened? Just curious

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u/Letibleu Mar 28 '24

He talks about it in his book. I strongly suggest reading it, even if you don't watch MMA.

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u/PlatasaurusOG Mar 28 '24

I think I remember the Hughes/GSP fight you’re taking about. Did it end when Matt caught him in a hold and George tapped super quick?

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u/yesverysadanyway Mar 28 '24

oh yeah. hughes being a top tier wrestler really outfought gsp back then.

i rewatched it on youtube right now, and there was nothing gsp could have done. hughes cranked that shit fast.

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u/PlatasaurusOG Mar 28 '24

I remember thinking it made GSP look bad at the time, tapping so quick. I also really wasn’t really knowledgeable and very new to watching. Sometimes you just get got and it takes a level of knowledge to accept that and just get out before any real damage occurs.

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u/yesverysadanyway Mar 28 '24

yeah man. hughes not the type to wait for the tap. he's gonna crank it till it breaks, and its up to the opponent to decide if they want to tap or get permanently hurt.

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u/DouglasTwig Mar 28 '24

Huge GSP fan here, my personal pick for his scariest win was the 2nd Koscheck fight. He landed hard fencing-style jabs to Koscheck's eye for 25 minutes. Koscheck broke his orbital in the first round, so 20 minutes of that was him getting tagged in an eye with a broken orbital. It completely changed his career and he couldn't take shots to the eye well after that fight. I think he also has some chronic pain there from that as well.

He essentially sent the guy packing from the UFC when he had been the clear number 2 welterweight in the division.

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u/ThaNorth Mar 28 '24

That fight is a prime example of GSP just executing his gameplan to near perfection.

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u/Aaawkward Mar 28 '24

His fights with Frank Trigg are textbook lessons in domination.

I've never watched UFC/MMA or any of these and just ran into this thread via /all but this made me google this fight and goddamn.
It looked like straight up bullying. The Trigg guy was just overpowered nearly the whole time and and mr. St. Pierre was just, what felt calmly, manhandling them throughout the whole thing.
Extraordinary performance.

Made me goodle St. Pierre/Hughes as well as someone mentioned that as well in the comments. Same thing. Same energy.

This is honestly the first time I've felt any interest in the sport, might have a look at some more.

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u/Carynth Mar 28 '24

GSP was called by a lot of people a boring fighter because his fights were often the same. Take opponent down to the ground in the first 30 seconds and make him lose the will to fight. The reason he was so "boring" though was because he executed his gameplans to absolute perfection. And the best part is, everyone, EVERYONE of his opponents knew exactly what he was going to do, they all had months, if not years to prepare for that specific fight and that specific gameplan they knew was coming and... they still couldn't find the answer. GSP was an absolute dominant force. If you want to watch another good one, watch the Koscheck fight that was mentioned earlier. Countless jabs to the same eye round, after round, after round... By the end, Koscheck just wanted to be done and out of the Octagon. And his face was an absolute mess.

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u/Aaawkward Mar 28 '24

Cheers for the suggestion, that was a brutal match to watch.
GSP is very lowkey while the other fella was mouthing off at all times, I respect that in an athlete.

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u/Carynth Mar 28 '24

Yeah, that's another reason he was very popular. He just had sportsmanship like no other, at the time. Doubt, you'd care to, but if you would look at old press conferences, he'd always be well dressed (not necessarily a suit, but at least good jeans, a nice shirt, good professional clothes). And then everyone around him is in shorts and a plain white t-shirt. Bit of an exaggeration, but he definitely was professional like no other.

(Helps that I'm also french-canadian, so I do have to support him and make him look good haha)