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NorCal

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Not a great night of fights but the right people won. Kenny is and always has been overrated. I don't think he has ever beat a top ten guy. Having Edgar win really opens up LW. Maia needs to step it up, right now he looks like a gate keeper at beast.

Looking forward to the next UFC, I really hope Mir gets knocked into next week but I'm not holding my breath.
 

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Originally Posted by NorCal
Awesome, I hope RN can bounce back. Gotta love guys that do it their way.

I'm not sure that "bounce back" would be the way to characterize it. He earned a lot of respect in the decision loss against Dos Santos. He stood for 3 rounds against the most feared striker in the heavyweight division, someone who hasn't gone out of the first round. But yeah, it would be great to see him rack up some wins against that level of competition.
 

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Yeah, I suppose " I hope he can take the next step and beat a top 3 guy" might be a better way of putting it.
 

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Originally Posted by robertorex
NSFStomachs:

Marcus Davis' eye

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Some boxer said it best when he said "It looks like he's got a head growing out of his head."
 

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Originally Posted by LA Guy
He really needs to fire everyone, get off of Hilo, and go train at a camp with top guys who will challenge him.
I remember watching one of those preview shows ahead of ** fighting GSP, and GSP was talking about all the guys he trains with (in Montreal, a bunch of Olympians, ahead of a fight, with Rashad/Jardine/Marquardt and a bunch of Alberquerque Jacksonians) and saying that they were "like brothers". ** mocked this saying something to the effect of "how could GSP hope to compete training with his like brothers when he, ** Penn, was here in Hawaii training with his actual brother?!" and I was like 'uhhhhhh ****....how many belts have your brothers won?"
 

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Originally Posted by NorCal
Wrong Diaz, that was his brother and it was a blood stoppage anyway, hardly a "smash up."

OK, but I hate both of them in any event, and Nate even more. Well, at least I'm convinced if they kept fighting, things would have gotten worse for Nick Diaz, not better. It's hard to fight when blood is blinding you, and there is no way he would have submitted Noons if they were slippery from his blood. I wished they let them keep fighting.
 

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LOFL @ Josh Koscheck being a coach on Ultimate Fighter. The guys a complete ******* joke of a fighter. He's really good at wrestling, I'll give him that, but he is completely mediocre in pretty much every other part of his game.

And I know he's ranked highly.... and that completely blows my ******* mind, considering he has never beaten a decent fighter in his prime. He has lost to them though.

I'm thinking about taking a loan out for like $100,000 and betting it on GSP when they fight. Short of GSP having a heart attack and dying, I think he's got the win in the bag.
 

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^^agreed. I think Fitch would give GSP a tougher fight (and be a better coach) but since Kos talks so much **** he'll bring the ratings to the show and eventual fight.
 

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Originally Posted by onion
LOFL @ Josh Koscheck being a coach on Ultimate Fighter. The guys a complete ******* joke of a fighter. He's really good at wrestling, I'll give him that, but he is completely mediocre in pretty much every other part of his game.

And I know he's ranked highly.... and that completely blows my ******* mind, considering he has never beaten a decent fighter in his prime. He has lost to them though.

I'm thinking about taking a loan out for like $100,000 and betting it on GSP when they fight. Short of GSP having a heart attack and dying, I think he's got the win in the bag.


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Originally Posted by JesterM
^^agreed. I think Fitch would give GSP a tougher fight (and be a better coach) but since Kos talks so much **** he'll bring the ratings to the show and eventual fight.
Fitch coaching: OK so here is how you take him down, here is how you pin him, and here is how you hold him down, and here is how you wait for the clock to tick by, and here is where you win a judge's decision for controlling the entire fight.
 

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Originally Posted by onion
LOFL @ Josh Koscheck being a coach on Ultimate Fighter. The guys a complete ******* joke of a fighter. He's really good at wrestling, I'll give him that, but he is completely mediocre in pretty much every other part of his game.

And I know he's ranked highly.... and that completely blows my ******* mind, considering he has never beaten a decent fighter in his prime. He has lost to them though.

I'm thinking about taking a loan out for like $100,000 and betting it on GSP when they fight. Short of GSP having a heart attack and dying, I think he's got the win in the bag.

I disagree. Koscheck gave GSP a good fight in their first meeting. GSP won a unanimous decision, but a lot of people don't remember that two judges gave Koscheck the first round. Halfway through the third round, Koscheck went for a double leg and GSP did an amazing sprawl where he hopped on one foot backward across half the Octagon and ended up in top position until the end of the fight. Had Koscheck gotten that takedown, it is very possible that he would have won a split decision.

Yes, GSP has improved a lot since that fight, but Koscheck has as well. I think Koscheck was caught unprepared by GSP's wrestling ability, and will be practicing his wrestling more for this fight. I think Koscheck can, and will, put GSP on his back in this fight. How GSP reacts will be very interesting, because he's very rarely been on the bottom in his UFC career.
 

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Originally Posted by Matt
GSP coaching: OK so here is how you take him down, here is how you pin him, and here is how you hold him down, and here is how you wait for the clock to tick by, and here is where you win a judge's decision for controlling the entire fight.
Fixed that for you. I watched GSP fight Dan Hardy from about ten feet away, and this was his exact strategy.
 

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there is no comparison between GSP and Fitch for boredom generation dude...
 

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Originally Posted by Matt
there is no comparison between GSP and Fitch for boredom generation dude...
Maybe not, but you can't criticize Fitch in this context for using that strategy when GSP uses the same exact strategy. GSP used to be a lot more exciting, but I feel like his past couple of fights, and especially the Hardy fight, used the same formula you described for Fitch.
 

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