RustyShackleford
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-You are forgetting to mention before GSP tooled Fitch and Alves standing he took them down and wore them down first. Fitch was putting up a fight but Alves gas tank was already near empty when George started beating him on the feet. Plus Fitch is not that good standing.Originally Posted by MayhemMonkey000
I really don't feel like breaking it down in tiers because after Andy you can make your own opinion because of different styles. Andy really is the only one to proficiently combine almost all striking forms in MMA (hell look at Dancing Andy and his capoeiraOriginally Posted by ex carrabba fan
Wait.at GSP being one of the top strikers in the UFC, easily.
Break it down in tiers if you would so I can try to grasp what you're attempting to claim.). Just watch his older fights. Hell watch his fight with Alves and Fitch. People forget how dangerous GSP is standing. He makes every punch and kick count. You don't train with Phil Nurse and Freddie Roach being as intelligent as GSP is and become a decent striker.
-He did the same thing to BJ and Hardy, beat them up on the ground or in the clinch, when they are worn down, strike with them standing, and if you get into trouble take it back to the ground.
-GSP has not fought many very good or great strikers in the UFC, only Penn, Sera, Alves and Hardy. He took all of them down first and the two times he did not he got absolutely owned standing up (Sera knocked him out and BJ worked him in the 1st round of their first fight). Now GSP never puts himself into any dangerous positions standing up, he always takes the fight back to the ground when there is any doubt on the feet.
-And Phil Nurse is a great coach but please don't act like he is one of the elite Muay Thai coaches in the world, he is not even regard the best in NY. And GSP only trained with Roach recently and Freedy himelf was critical of the boxing technique GSP was using, called it stiff and tight. And he said was teaching to Goerge to be more relax and be a better puncher, more like BJ.
-Again GSP is a very good striker, better than most, but if all the 170 fighters in the world were entered in a shootboxing contest. George would beat worked by a lot of guys. George has yet to knock out a good striker on his feet, and will not even think about throwing hands with one unless he has taken them down first. That ones not sound like one of the "Best strikers in the UFC" to me.