So if GSP wins, and this is a pick-em fight IMHO, he's going to defend against Yoel? That's fucking nuts. He'll defend against Anderson Silva instead, probably. Oh wait he could drop down to WW and try for that belt, that's the fashion right now, two belts, two divisions held hostage. Yoel has to hope that Bisping wins.
I'm stoked to watch it at least. So they are accomplishing what they want out of it. Should sell a lot.
So many aspects of this piss me off. It makes GSP look like shit. So he was always willing to jump up to middleweight--he just didn't want to fight Anderson Silva. He waited for an easier target. Whether or not that is true this makes it seem that way. GSP has zero fights at middleweight and jumps the line ahead of contenders who have been putting in work, specifically Romero, then Jacare. How is this justifiable from a sport standpoint? The rankings system once again demonstrated to be worthless. Michael Bisping, for the second time, avoids fighting a top contender. He's not the world champion if he's going to play keep-away from contenders. He's a farce. GSP says he wants to fight in Q3 putting this fight at least 5-7 months away, and the subsequent fight 4-6 months after that. The division is in gridlock. GSP has no business taking a title fight after not fighting for three years and looking broke down in his last effort. He should've been given a tune-up. Hendricks, Lawler, whatever the weight. DFW has long accused boxing of making up the rules as they go, ignoring rankings, putting money ahead of sport. Well what is the UFC, now? Presumably GSP thinks Stephen Thompson (former training partner) will win this weekend but could they not have waited a minute to see how that fight plays out? Is GSP/Woodley not a much more reasonable fight than GSP/Bisping? Fuck
To some extent Romero has to blame himself. If he didn't get popped he'd have had his title fight by now.
Lol true. But man, i was so stoked when he got knocked out. Crazy upset and wanted Bisping to touch the belt once.
I feel the same way. Souza should have jumped to the front of the line when Romero had to cheat to beat him.
This sport is acting like boxing more and more. Have a huge main event fight? water down the rest of the card and make PPV buys off the main event? Pay the fighters a lot more for winning vs competing? Fighters win the title and want to pick who they face so they can keep on getting big pay cheques
Apparently the reason Bisping was flipping out on Edgy (other than being drunk) was that Bravo told him he "improves from fight to fight" and Bisping took that to mean he was shit at one point, or something. GSP commented that he thinks Bisping has a complex over people counting him out and not taking him seriously and this seems to demonstrate that pretty effectively despite the booze.
