It’s safe to say Georges St-Pierre returns to a whole different world than the one he left a year ago.
“It’s a lot of fun. It’s like there’s a lot of new challenges and I’m very happy to be back. It’s like a new thing; it’s actually pretty cool,” St-Pierre told MMAWeekly.com recently.
“I feel a lot more motivation right now. It’s exciting. Look for bigger and better challenges.”
In his absence, St-Pierre’s name has come up often with the other welterweights in the division. Some have talked about him with respect, others not so much, but it doesn’t matter much to the long reigning welterweight champion.
Talk or no talk, St-Pierre is looking forward to gunning for each contender, one by one, until he beats them all.
“I’m going to hit as hard as I can,” said St-Pierre. “Regardless whether they talk bad or not.”
GSP not excited to fight anywhere but 170. Anderson has fought Champions / former champions at 3 different weight classes. Doing what Anderson did to Griffin is akin to GSP moving up to Middleweight and embarrassing Rich Franklin worse than he ever has been.
GSP not excited to fight anywhere but 170. Anderson has fought Champions / former champions at 3 different weight classes. Doing what Anderson did to Griffin is akin to GSP moving up to Middleweight and embarrassing Rich Franklin worse than he ever has been.
There's certainly something to that. On the other hand, Anderson had two warm-up fights at LHW without actually fighting the current LHW champion.
So if you expect the same for GSP, you'd be asking that GSP have a warmup fight against someone the equivalent of Irvin (a 17-10 record), and then fight a former MW champion, before taking on Anderson. Why the rush (no pun intended) to get GSP to go straight to fighting the MW champ, when Anderson never had to do that as LHW?
But I think we're reading too much into this. Basically, GSP is just admitting that he hasn't cleared out the WW division. Which is in fact true, he hasn't, and its probably a good thing he admits he hasn't, instead of pretending he has. It would sound pretty arrogant for him to claim he's got the WW division cleared.
GSP not excited to fight anywhere but 170. Anderson has fought Champions / former champions at 3 different weight classes. Doing what Anderson did to Griffin is akin to GSP moving up to Middleweight and embarrassing Rich Franklin worse than he ever has been.
There's certainly something to that. On the other hand, Anderson had two warm-up fights at LHW without actually fighting the current LHW champion.
So if you expect the same for GSP, you'd be asking that GSP have a warmup fight against someone the equivalent of Irvin (a 17-10 record), and then fight a former MW champion, before taking on Anderson. Why the rush (no pun intended) to get GSP to go straight to fighting the MW champ, when Anderson never had to do that as LHW?
But I think we're reading too much into this. Basically, GSP is just admitting that he hasn't cleared out the WW division. Which is in fact true, he hasn't, and its probably a good thing he admits he hasn't, instead of pretending he has. It would sound pretty arrogant for him to claim he's got the WW division cleared.
That's my point. Griffin was a former champ when Silva moved up and absolutely dismantled him. That would be akin to GSP moving up to face former champ Rich Franklin and having the same kind of performance.
You're argument is hypothetical though. Anderson has done three different weight classes...........GSP hasn't fought anywhere but one division. "It would be harder for GSP" is just conjecture.
I think until GSP stacks up a few wins coming off of his injury to build some confidence that there is no way he is even thinking about MW at this point.
Samoa -
You're argument is hypothetical though. Anderson has done three different weight classes...........GSP hasn't fought anywhere but one division. "It would be harder for GSP" is just conjecture.
I'm basing it strictly on psyique, not on who has fought in more weight classes,BJ has fought in 3, but we're not going call him a LHW cause he fought machida. BJ is a LW.
I just didn't think it was fair to link Silvia's performance vs Forrest, to a "hypothetical " similar performance with GSP vs rich franklin. Again on the fact silva is more suited for a jump up in weight then GSP.
Silva looked like he physically belonged in the ring with Forrest, I don't think GSP vs Franklin would give me the same feeling.
Again, no excuse, GSP vs silva would be awesome, just, your comparison with the whole silva,forrest,GSP,frankin thing, I don't agree with.
Remember what I was originally posting about. It was about both fighters willingness to fight out of their division. The bottom line is that Silva has many times and will again in his next fight; GSP has NEVER fought outside of 170.
It wasn't about who was more "suited" to do it. (The fact remains that Silva's dismantling of Forrest would be parallel to GSP moving up and doing the same thing to Rich Franklin)
Samoa -
You're argument is hypothetical though. Anderson has done three different weight classes...........GSP hasn't fought anywhere but one division. "It would be harder for GSP" is just conjecture.
I'm basing it strictly on psyique, not on who has fought in more weight classes,BJ has fought in 3, but we're not going call him a LHW cause he fought machida. BJ is a LW.
I just didn't think it was fair to link Silvia's performance vs Forrest, to a "hypothetical " similar performance with GSP vs rich franklin. Again on the fact silva is more suited for a jump up in weight then GSP.
Silva looked like he physically belonged in the ring with Forrest, I don't think GSP vs Franklin would give me the same feeling.
Again, no excuse, GSP vs silva would be awesome, just, your comparison with the whole silva,forrest,GSP,frankin thing, I don't agree with.
Remember what I was originally posting about. It was about both fighters willingness to fight out of their division. The bottom line is that Silva has many times and will again in his next fight; GSP has NEVER fought outside of 170.
It wasn't about who was more "suited" to do it. (The fact remains that Silva's dismantling of Forrest would be parallel to GSP moving up and doing the same thing to Rich Franklin)
i disagree, GSP moving up and taking out rich franklin , would be even MORE impressive then silva taking out forrest, considering, Silva is much more suited for 205. which was my whole point.
Anderson can take out everyone at 205 cept, maybe Jon Jones. cause his size may not give him an advantage, but it sure as hell isnt a disadvantage.
Gsp, at MW, i wouldnt say the same, i see Silva, Sonnen, Weidmen, okami, belcher, giving GSP problems,he may still win, but i doubt he would put on a Silva like performance ala Forrest,
That is, again, secondary to the original reason I posted: One of them has fought champion caliber fighters in three weight classes and is CURRENTLY taking a fight "a division up" on short notice. The other fighter has never, in his career, fought outside of "his" division.
How can it be easier for Anderson to fight in three weight divisions than it is for GSP to fight in two?
