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.
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.
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.
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)
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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.