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Originally Posted by jxl301
Let me try this again... I said Serra's game IS the ground game. With that I was implying his type of fighting style is ground-based, hence, GSP beat him at his game more than Serra did at his, but not that GSP beat Serra at his game. I maybe should have explained this in exact detail as to not have people jumping on me telling me I'm not man enough to admit I was wrong, when this clearly is not a right or wrong issue. Unless I say "GSP beat Serra at his game", don't assume I did. I hope you got it this time Gooner, MC and whoever else assumed I said what I said, lol.
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Yeah, in all fairness..."most" people would tend to split MMA into 2 categories. Standup & Ground fighting. I suppose that the Clinch could technically be a third...though it does exist in the standup realm. So it's not SOOOOO out there to imply that GSP beat Serra in his "world" so too speak. Serra may be BJJ and Georges more of a wrestling style....but in the end, it all takes place on the mat.
Which honestly should not have surprised anyone all that much. Go through GSP's history & though he does some flashy spinning kicks & superman punches & what not...from even his earliest fights, he was often looking for the takedown very early in the match. His standup has almost always served as a way for him to eventually get the fight to the ground.
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Originally Posted by riversideblues
Sorry but GSP was making major mistakes in the way he was leaning to avoid punches and what did Serra do? He did what anyone with a good boxing mind would do, hit him where he kept moving to
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It's funny, but GSP alluded to something like that in one post-fight interview...UFC press conference maybe...saying that he has trouble sometimes with shorter fighters. He mentioned that he will sometimes have a bad habit of leaning in too much when punching down at the shorter guy & it leaves him open for those types of shots. You can see it happen in the Sherk fight as well, but he never paid the price for it in that one.