Not Horrible
He did. Not a terrible one though.
I think the opinion of BJ winning this fight is a little overinflated but itās understandable. He took the first round for sure but itās not like he dominated the second. It was close and GSP had the momentum going into the third.
Yeah not horrible, just not very good. I think I can harness my style and make it unique.
I gotta say as a big GSP guy. After watching the Hendricks fight again, I donāt see how GSP wins it. I hadnāt watched it since seeing it live in 2013 and I originally had it 2-2 going into the 5th. I was also biased.
This time when I watched the only round I could confidently give GSP was the third, couldnāt see an argument for him getting the fourth. I had it 3-1 Hendricks going into the last round. Johny just did too much damage.
i definitely think bj won the first fight against frankie, he for sure won the first 3.5 rounds
the media scores agreed too
Big Rig would have won if he put the deal to the metal in the championship fights. He cruised to the finish and deserved to lose imo
100 %
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Yeah this was one decision I think the mma community was right on. Clear and decisive BJ win.
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Yeah I think the coasting in the 5th is what cost him. He still should have won the fight. He made some really impressive adjustments
What was more impressive is how a guy in his last fight beat a guy roided to the gills and was in his prime
Yes I agree thatās even more impressive, part of the reason Iām such a huge GSP fan
Fear.
Fear can be defined as an unpleasant feeling or emotion associated with the threat of injury or death. In fighting, āfearā is a term often used in a negative context. Fighters will call each other āscaredā to fight them, even when they are already booked against one another. Fans deem fighters āscaredā when they donāt fight who everyone thinks they should fight. During combat, if one fighter is perceived to be disengaging from the other, some will say they are āscaredā, or ārunningā. If a combatant pulls out of a matchup beforehand, that could be viewed as fear, as opposed to an injury or illness. For people involved in organized violence, this probably all sounds completely obtuse, inasmuch as fighters are ceaselessly under threat of injury or death when they are in the cage or ring.
Fearsome.
Georges St. Pierre is one of the most FEARSOME fighters in the history of mixed martial arts. Now, he didnāt have one-punch knockout power or lights-out submissions, so he wasnāt fearsome in the conventional sense. Georges doesnāt look like a āscaryā guy, or somebody who would invoke a feeling of panic or fear inside of a person. He certainly doesnāt talk like it. But what I do know is this: Georges had world-class fighting skills, high combat intelligence, excellent work ethic, and a matchless drive to win and be the absolute best at what he does. What made him scary is not that he intimidated guys - itās that he dominated them so thoroughly and completely that their will was drained from their bodies like milk from a cowās udders. Not only did St. Pierre beat his opponents pillar to post, but he absorbed their energy like a real-life version of Majin Buu. He only got stronger as his opponents were weakened by his constant pressure and attacks. He has been described as ādominantā, āunstoppableā, and āsuffocatingā. One fighter even described Georgesās intelligence as ālike trying to fight a computer programā. He was a fighting machine at the bleeding edge of human performance and obsession.
@MMApurist Did you know there was an english broadcast of IAFC 1? Tra Telligman debuted here as well.
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Nice find! Iāve seen clips of it and over 20 years back I remember Amazon had a VHS tape that had a beaten up Ricardo Morais face on it that I always tried to track down that I could never find. I think thats the same one but Iāve never been able to find it since
Not a bad deal!
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^^ it doesnāt show on the thumbnail but when you click, it shows the ebay product. Ebay also has 1 by itself for 8 bucks, 23 dollar shipping. Lol.
Fearless.
Georges St. Pierre carried fear within his mind and heart. The reason we know this is because he is sentient, and is therefore able to feel and think. Georges has even said himself that he feels tremendous fear before his fights, to the point where he doesnāt want to make the walk, and even despises it. Looking back on this feeling in a seminar at Bangtao in 2024, Georges had this to say: āEverybody is happy to go fight on Saturday night, Iām not, Iām scared.ā St. Pierreās struggles with pre-fight nerves have been well-documented, and his approach to this problem was āfake it until I make itā.
The way he did this was by studying the James-Lange Theory of Emotion, which posited that human emotion is a response to physical changes in your body - for example, an increased heart rate creates a feeling of fear in a person. Georges broke this theory down into its simplest form: my environment can affect my mind. Easy enough to understand. But this is where St. Pierre separates himself from everyone else. He flips that theory around and says that not only does the environment affect your mind and body, but your mind also affects your environment. Hereās an example, using the manās own words: āI go in the bathroom, close the door. People think Iām going to the bathroom to piss or whatever, but I donāt. I close the door and I say, I sayā¦ I go in front of the mirror and say to myself, āIām the greatest. Iām the strongest.ā āIām beautiful, Iām strong, Iām faster and Iām stronger, and Iām gonna win!ā. I open the door and go back a different personā. Before his fights, he would surround himself with just his teammates and coaches, describing it as āpreparing for warā. He viewed his fights as individual battles, and his inner circle as fellow soldiers on the frontlines.
Haha wow even better find! Thatās really impressive you found it so quick. I used to check there too back in the day but never saw it available. Now I am tempted to spend $80 on old VHS tapes in 2026 lol
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