Five reasons why Jake Shields will beat Georges St. Pierre (or not)

Or Not.

I would like to see Shields win. Do I like him? No not really. But what would Dana say about having his champs being the best than? Maybe he would open his eyes and see Fedor and Overeem.

He would say that his new champ was the best.

Hoping a fighter will lose to spite Dana is reasonable.

...But Dana loves Shields. He never even said GSP is the best, he said Anderson is the best.

That's because he's retarded.

After what happened to Brock dana may be done hyping the heavyweight division that way

GSP by KO 2nd round, shield have no stand up game and GSP always fights his openents in their weakness plus he can stuff shields takedowns, so he will keep the fight standing and fock up shields face

Shields does have the best shot at beating GSP imo but I still think GSP will dominate him n take the win

there is a great point there! Shields beat Henderson , Daley and Lawler who are far better strikers than GSP and with more power.

GSP could dominated him with wrestling for sure but theres always Shields ground game to be considered.



my guess is GSP will do the same he did to BJ and take the Decision again. if GSP really wants to step up and move up he needs to improve his stand up and killer instinct otherwise he will get stuck in rematches at WW the next years.



Watching new fighter with amazing skills like Aldo,Pettis,Cruz,Jones

should be a reminder that if you dont evolved you will get behind.

GSP needs to finish Shields!

shields is of now, the best fighter gsp has faced . but if silva cut down lol man it would be a scary site too see silva fight at welter weight .

gsp is naturaly worried . greg jackson is the best their is for gsp ! they will have a great game plan as all ways ! i see gsp standing in this fight ! only thing that worries me is i dont want too see gsp go to the ground early . i know gsp will take down shields. i hope gsp brings newer boxing skills too this fight with a ko ! than we can get gsp ready maybe for a bigger super fight .

gsp ko

Exactly. GSP will force JS to stand and finally for the first time JS weak stand up will cause him to lose and probably even look very foolish doing so. I predict he'll have one eye swollen shut just like Kos.

All shields needs to do to avoid a KO is fall to his back everytime he gets hit. It's an AWESOME strategy for a bjj guy, just ask leites, maia or werdum



Been awhile since GSP finished anyone at his weight too, so it's possible he might follow him

I think TKO would be more likely or a decision. I don't think KO will happen but I guess you never know.

GSP will do whatever he wants whenever he wants.

GSP will bang your girlfriend also

It would be an honor.

i would watch

lol not mine she says he sounds gay hahah....I didnt say that tho GSP is the man

if josh koscheck couldnt do it. I dont how jake shields can do it. i think koshceck is much better then jake shields and i thought that jake lost to kampmann.

i disagree, shields will be gsp's toughest test since the likes of fitch and penn. if he shields can take him down then he could be in trouble. but then it'd be foolish to doubt gsp's wrestling so really the fight could go either way.

@huge clearance. do you think kos is better than shields everywhere, including his record and calibre of people he has fought and beaten? im not at all a shields fan but i respect his record a lot more than kos's, and i think he has better wrestling and jj than kos. Plus i think shields has fought more fighters of a better level and has a better record.Dont get me wrong, I still think gsp wins this fight but to say kos is much better than shields, i think you are wrong. Kos didnt even have a decent game plan, and it was the re-match. you would think that he would do much better in the re-match but he did worse, so what did he learn, change or adapt. ZERO

lol@koscheck better than shields. Why exactly?

jake shields does not have better wrestling then koscheck. But whatever you say man. i still think koscheck is much better then jake shields and i also think koscheck is a very exciting fighter to watch and jake shields is not!

I think Koscheck is even more overrated than your cleavage

That was funny!lol.

I dont think it's either way. It's going to be domination by GSP as usual. It's not like shields is lightyears ahead of GSP in terms of grappling so I don't even see GSP getting caught in a submission

it's still mma dude. nobody thought werdum would beat fedor in the first 2 minutes, nobody thought sonnen would push silva the way he did and certainly nobody thought serra would knock out gsp. when 2 of the most talented guys in their weight class come together anything can happen.

That knockout by Serra is exactly why GSP wont lose. He doesn't take anyone lightly and he fights smart.

carwin being submitted by lesnar etc. yes i agree with that and it's that very loss that made him a great fighter, and by no means do i think shields will knock him out, but i find it annoying when people say that one guy is going to completely bulldoze a guy as talented and successful as shields, when if you've ever watched a mma, there is always at least one upset on a card. i feel shields has the edge in grappling but gsp is the more well rounded fighter, so really it will come down to whoever implements their gameplan best.

lmfao yeah I guess anything can happen but the chances are still very low... specially the way gsp fights

i hope GSP does the same thing to shields like he did to kos..

so dana has to admit he was wrong to give this asshole a title shot after the kampman fight!! HATE me agian... and give me 100 WEAK.. but i dont give a shit!!!

I wouldnt have weaked you except you asked for it, so I delivered. Now, can I get a "SHARP"?

asking for a "sharp" can most probably get you a "weak" haha

Every time haha!!!!

even reverse physocolgy doesnt work here its usually all negative no matter what you do

Going with 'not' on this one.



He has absolutely nothing for GSP. I can name five guys who have a better chance at beating GSP than him simply because they punch better and harder, even though I think Shields would beat four of those guys. No one can out-class GSP in any aspect of the sport. Even though Shields' jiu jitsu is better in its purest form, I don't think that's enough for MMA because GSP's wrestling is so much more powerful and he's so strong.



And I really hope that Jake doesn't actually think that his wrestling is on par with St. Pierre's... if he does, he's going to be in for a long night. That's all he should be working until their fight, sweeps and most of all takedowns! St. Pierre is a genius fighter with that asshole Gred Jackson in his corner; do you think they're going to decide to take Shields down and submit him? Maybe a few takedowns to secure rounds, but this fight will be contested on the feet and St. Pierre is going to break Shields' face.

GSP's wrestling is NOT more powerful than Jake's. That is laughable.

I've come to the realization that many are not even familiar with Shields and what he brings to the table. They're basing their opinions off of the Kampmann fight alone. Its surprising how many do not watch any MMA outside of the UFC. Not to say that Shields will necessarily win, but he poses a bigger threat than many of GSP's past opponents have.

Yeah, I can see good arguments for GSP to win but these people think he is invincible at every range. Saying GSP has stronger wrestling than Shields is like saying Anderson Silva has better BJJ than Maia. It is a silly statement.

ok i'm not a shields expert cause i hate his style!!!

but i can remember some of his fights..

for examplethe fight against daley from elite xc

and if i remember well he got rocked bad a few times

in the stand up and on the ground he was doing

nearly no damage.. he finaly won by submission..

but come on thats not a big deal against somebody

without groud skills...



the mayhem fight.. :-D

he won a decision where he was again doing no

damage and was saved by the bell from getting

choked out!!?? (2nd or 3rd round)

and mayhem looked fine after the fight!!!



the hendo fight

shields dominated him but again did not that much damage!!!

and i think if they would fight again it will not heppen

like that again!!



he only scores points with his take downs and his ability

to keep his opponents on the ground... thats it!!

and all that will not work agains someone like GSP!



i think its true that shields is maybe the biggest threat in

terms of wrestling.. but he'll never be able to do

that to GSP!! never!! whole nother level of fighter!!

GSP has beaten some of the best guys with fenomenal

ground game like hughes, FITCH, kos and bj penn

remember that!!!



ok sorry for annoying you with that..

but i never told you to read it...:-D



ps: watch the jake shields muai thay workout..

worst stand up in mma ever!!to funny to watch :-D

if he will stand up only for 1 minute he will be

KTFO with 2 broken orbital bones... :-D

a yeah.. only to remind you... shields was gassed out after the 2nd round.. and they say it was cause of cutting weight...

if he shows up in the same condition agian he is f***ed!!!!!! :-D



the more i read here and hear dana talk about shields...

the more i hope he gets his ass kicked sooooo badly!!!!!!!

cause he deserves it!!!!

Joey are yu saying that you think shields is a better wrestler than koscheck? Because if you are I couldn't disagree with you more. And maybe some people are basing it off the Kampmann fight but for myself I'm basing it off it all. GSP is a better striker, wrestler and matchable grappling compared to shields I don't think he poses any new theats that gsp hasnt handled before either.

It will all depend on whether Shields can take GSP down...and I have a hell of a hard time seeing that happen...I like Shields and would love to see dana Wipe eat a mouthful of Dana poop, but Im afraid this fight will be GSP's all the way

Shields is a FAR superior wrestler to Koscheck. In fact he makes Fitch look like an amateur. He has bested not only Dan Henderson but also Okami. GSP will out strike him with his eyes closed but he will never beat him in wrestling OR on the ground. He is light years ahead of GSP at those ranges.

Honestly Ide like to see Crotcheck fight Shields first but that would take forever to have Josh see again

you may see another clinic from GSP against SHields, and he will outclass him in ALL areas. I agree with some sentiments about Shields resume deserving respect, it speaks for itself, but IMO he should not even be getting a shot as Kampmann won that fight. Check out fightmetric for the stats and it shows Kampmann miles ahead in all areas except for takedowns.

Yeah, I lost all respect for fightmetric a LOOONG time ago. The Kampmann fight was extremely close but it was the right decision. Shields barely, but clearly won. He controlled the fight and that is that. I personally thought that Kampmann could have won but as usual he made a stupid choice and tried to out do his opponent in their strength like he did with Daley and he lost. GSP will try to keep this standing. If he does, he will win. If he does not, Shields will win.

why does everyone overlook the fact that shields cut something ridiculous like 20 or 25 pounds the day before the fight? he was gassed after the first round and still managed to pull off what i believe was a clear win for him. being able to beat kampmann when he was at a fraction of his fighting ability is only further proof of his awesomeness. he deserves the title shot because he's on a 15 fight win streak against mostly top competition and gsp has beaten everyone else. end rant.

How did he control the fight when he took more damage? Hugging and takedowns have far too much kudos. It's a fight after all isn't it? If it was in a playground everyone would have called Kampmann the winner.

I think GSP's strength, speed, and brain makes his wrestling better than Jake's.

Thank you japanegro23



@overhand right - That is no one's fault but his own. How many months advanced knowledge did he have and still left it till the last day to cut? No one's overlooking that fact: we just don't ****ing care.



@JoeySantous and IChokePeople - do you guys know what wrestling is? Are you actually saying Shields has better wrestling than GSP? or even Kos or Fitch? Jiu jitsu sweeps and guard passing are not wrestling.

ur right that brain of his is second to none

I have one intense year of greaco=roman and three years of submission wrestling. I routinely submit guys with many more years of wrestling than I have. I know my shit. Shields is the better wrestler. If you don't believe me ask Okami.

I think Kos and Fitch are the best wrestlers. I do believe though that GSP is good too but to me Kos was better in the one aspect of their last fight which GSP dominated on the feet.

Oh, and I am pretty sure Kos showed equal wrestling to GSP's in their last fight. George only completed two takedowns. The rest were stuffed with ease. Shields is the best wrestler at 170. He isn't explosive but I think I can count the times he's been stuffed on one hand. Once he gets that single you are going down.

AND all sweeps are wrestling. It is using leverage to manipulate your opponent's position. WRESTLING

GSP was not getting up the same way Kos could. Kos is the better all out wrestler.

George Start Praying will keep the fight standing and grind another decision..

George needs to make sure that Shields doesn't get a body triangle on him when/if it goes to the ground, besides that I feel like GSP has this in the bag. I'll see you at MW buddy!

No way will GSP overlook Jake.

I'm gonna go ahead and stick with the OR NOT :)

Sheilds stands NO CHANCE of competing with Georges!!!

I hope he gets his fealings hurt and runs away with his head down and his tail between his legs!!!

There is NO 170 pounder on the horizon with the complete set of tools to beat GSP atop his game now. After honing his skills following the Sera fluke, you are seeing a fighter not unlike Manny Paq in boxing, who is determined to be better every single fight. The only option left is for Dana to give him a real incentive to come up and take Andersons belt away in a super-fight ... now LONG overdue

Very good comparison.

Cool article. I like both of these fighters a lot and really don't see a clear winner here myself. I may flip a coin to decide who to go with in the picks. One correction though. Georges did not train Shotokan, he trained Kyokushin. As far as stance goes it is kind of academic but Kyokushin is a much more aggressive style of Karate.

GSP got nothing to beat Shields he is just UFC hype fighting the same loosers non stop.GSP never foght any one like Kampman and Shields will submit him or desision.GSP never gona go to the ground with Shields and Shields will take him down

are u gilbert melendez?

he whomped Penn atop his game .... how's that for fighting losers ?

Dude, really? What you just wrote is just as laughable as all of these guys with GSP man-crushes who think Shields is going to get destroyed on the ground. Let me say it again a different way. GSP will not KO Shields. GSP will not submit Shields. Shields will take down GSP. If it turns into a ground fight GSP cannot win. HOWEVER, if it is predominantly a stand up fight, which GSP may be able to make it, Shields will lose.

Anyways, GSP by "jabination"

I am confused as you say Jake Shields has wayy better jujitsu since shields has won 10 of his 26 victories by sub. No that dominate of a number in my opinion. Kind of a hot cold article. It was kind of like reading about how great and exciting of a job Obama will do in office and just to be let down in the ultimate end. I remember when GSP first caught my attention in his mayhem miller fight just because we were same size people. I thought he would be good but wow who saw the wrestling coming????

Jiu jitsu is Sheilds' only tool. He could not put on a striking clinic like GSP did against Kos, so is therefore likely to have more submissions as he only tries for that. That does not make him superior. If GSP fought only to get submissions I'm pretty sure he'd match the stats against most fighters.

Shields is now officially my 3rd fave fighter. He's already been champ in the area where gsp was afraid to go and has beat HIGH calibre fighters. Sure shields might not put on a clinic against josh koscheck in terms of striking, but who is koscheck in terms of who shields has beaten? Who is serra? Who is hardy?

Shields is good at what he does, his record proves that, but whereas Shields has an egg sandwich and a flask of tea in his picnic basket, and as nice as they are, GSP has the Harrods deluxe mega hamper that he brings. If Shields is your 3rd fav fighter, I suggest you watch some mma.

Here's your 5 reasons...GSP will-



1. Out-strike Shields

2. Out-wrestle Shields

3. Out-strategize Shields

4. Out-cardio Shields

5.Out-BJJ Shields

I don't normally say things like this but you are retarded. Item 1 is definitely correct and item 3 may be correct. Item 4 shows that you have only seen Shields last fight. Items 2 and 4 are laughable to an indescribable degree. If this is a stand up fight, GSP will win. If this is a ground fight, there will be a new champ.

You are gonna look a bit of a chump when GSP bosses Shields in all areas.

It won't happen. I personally think we will see a stand up fight. I think GSP has JUST enough wrestling to maintain that and out strike Shields. He will never beat Shields on the ground. It won't happen.

And let me add; The ONLY way that GSP EVER gets a submission on Jake Shields is if he has him on queer street first. That could happen but he will NEVER out wrestle or out grapple Shields.

GSP HAS WAAAAY BETTER CARDIO THAN JAKE!!! Haha.

Better, maybe. WAAAAAY better, no. The Kampmann fight is the only time I have seen Jake gas and considering the bad cut, I don't think that says anything about Jake's cardio. I meant Item 5, not 4 to go along with item 2. That was a typo.

@ICP



You keep mentioning Jake but look at GSP's cardio in his fights.

When has GSP switched weight classes?

Very good article Anton, great analysis. Shields in my opinion has the better grappling pedigree as you pointed out and has been doing wrestling / Jiu-Jitsu way longer than Georges. Jake will have the edge in the grappling department.



However a very important point you mentioned as well, GSP has the striking edge, combined with his grappling arsenal, making him a much more well rounded and better fighter in my opinion.



With Shields training Muay Thai at Tiger's in Thailand and of course his grappling background he'll be ready for GSP. But I think "Rush" will be too much for the former SF champion at the end of the night.

The only thing shields is better at is BJJ

I picture GSP and Firas and Jackson and Jean Charles and Brad Tate (ha ha) sitting around the strategy table in the war room: "Shields thinks we think we can outstrike him, but we know he's been boxing with Diaz brothers to be prepared so we'll plan on outwrestling him, but he knows we're thinking that, so we won't go for the takedowns, we'll go for muy thai, but he thinks we're going to focus on muy thai so we'll doublef*ck him and go with karate, but Shields isn't scared of our karate because he thinks he can clinch us up against the cage and use those single leg off balance takedowns, but we already know he's thinking that so we're not even training that, instead we think he'll have trouble making weight again and won't have much gas so we're going to focus on takedowns in the first three rounds just to tire him out, but we won't stay down and get caught in his jj traps, we'll just let him back up each time, but he knows we train with the Canadian olympic team and he'll be expecting that, so instead we'll catch him by surprise and use his own weapon bjj against him and he'll never see it coming, but he'll be expecting that......

I like shields but after the kampmann fight i dont think he has a chance against gsp, unless he can get his weight under control

It will be. He had an injury that kept him from doing it right and had to cut 20lbs in one day after not cutting for two or three years. It won't be an issue.

If Kampmann was safe on the ground, even pressing the action on the ground against Shields then Idk how GSP can lose

@Anton



I think you were reaching a little bit when writing this haha.

@Anton



I think you were reaching a little bit when writing this haha.

Surprisingly, it was one of the easiest articles ever.

That is very surprising! Good job though. I'm not sure I could have posted it with a straight face. Jake surely has a layer and prayers chance.

I think it was the best article written in a long time

I will be smiling when Georges is doing everything he can to keep the fight standing. I fully believe he will eak out a win by keeping it standing just enough but if he does get sucked into a ground fight I will be laughing.

I will definitely give you credit for going against the grain ICP.

Have a second look at the first round of the GSP vs. Koscheck 2 fight. It seemed to me that when Kos got GSP down in the later part of that round that GSP could not stop Kos from controlling him. The impression I get is that GSP seemed to want to get it back to the feet and couldn't.



Have a look guys and tell me if GSP looked vulnerable off his back and unable to get things back to his feet. Jake Shields will be focused on doing that to GSP each and every round (which maybe Koscheck should have done) and I predict that should Jake Shields get GSP down, GSP will not be getting up until the end of a round or worse, submitted. Shields being able to take down GSP means a UD for Shields.



P.S. On the flip side... If GSP does stuff Jake Shields take-downs (his TDD is really good) then he out strikes Shields to a UD.

It would be such wicked irony for shields to simply take GSP down and sit his way to a win by decision..the look on Greg jacksons face would be PRICELESS

Actually, it looked to me like GSP didn't care about getting up. he got taken down with seconds left in a round he'd already dominated. Why risk getting hurt by trying to press the issue of standing? It's not like he had Nam Phan's judges or anything.

I believe GSP will beat Shields in the same way he did Fitch. He will stuff his takedowns and beat him BADLY in the stand up. Shields will be lucky if he doesn't get KOed.



BTW, GSP should be fighting Kampmann in Shields' place anyway. And for all you who are going on and on about Shield's weight cut, he had more than enough time to not have to cut 25 pounds the day before weigh-ins. It is the fighter's responsibility to cut weight efficiently and effectively. Quit making excuses for Shields and face the fact that he is not THAT good. I'm looking forward to him being schooled by GSP.

How do you say shields isn't that good? lets see GSP beat who shields has beat...oh wait he was saying he didn't want to move to middleweight so i don't know why you're cussing out a fighter who was fighting successfully at both weights for years.



If GSP tried to KO shields then he could just pull a maia/leites and fall down everytime he's hit, then we'll see if people say GSP should jump in his guard or not.

Stand up is an intricate part of MMA. I wouldn't have a problem if Shields took GSP down or if he pulled guard in close quarters, but to lay there ala Maia/Leites should be illegal in MMA.



I hope the ref is Herb Dean so he could disqualify Shields for refusal to engage. Then on top of that, I'd love to see Dana White give Shields his walking papers (like he did Leites) if he dares pull a weak stunt like that. If Jake Shields wants only to grapple, he should go to a BJJ tournament and stay outta MMA.

That's funny considering all the matches GSP wins on the ground by decision as opposed to shields who finished 8 fights in a row besides the last 3 decisions.



Double standards suuuurrre are fun

What Madness wrote in no way shows double standards. He was giving reasons why someone else was guilty of it. You should seriously study logic because you have no grasp of it.

GSP may not have the better pure wrestling/bjj, but I think he has a better ability of bringing everything together in the octagon compared to Shields. Wrestling alone will not win this against someone like GSP. Hes just too smart for it. Shields is definitely a huge threat against GSP, but if hes going to pull it off, hes going to need some fancy GSP style strategy.

first off gsp will smash him every round,jake is gonna know how it feels to get mounted and beat down, jake lacks the skills that gsp has,jakes ground in pound is like a lil girls,if he wins its cause he mounted him and hit him like a lil baby so the ref will call it but i doubt that would happen,kampmann got robbed he handled jake the hole fight,he should not be getting a title fight...................

takedowns aside, its gunna come down 2 striking, and honestly gsp is on a whole nother level when it comes 2 the jab and technics of countering. i hope shields shows his growth and puts gsp on his ass and taps him out, but i do see gsp winning same way he did with penn

GSP will win cause he has the power, quickness, strategy, and he won't go down that easily.

one huge reason he WON'T: lack of offensive and defensive striking AND putting it all together!

Jake Shields has won 15 fights in a row and for some reason he is STILL not getting the respect that he deserves from some of us on Lowkick. GSP is not invincible, therefore there's always a chance of him losing anytime he gets into the Octagon. Shields may not be a great striker, however I don't see him getting Ko'd anytime by GSP. If the fight goes to the ground, we will definitely have a new CHAMP!

I don't think one trip to the ground will be enough but I do think that if the majority of the fight is on the ground, GSP is in trouble.

Jake Shields has won 15 fights in a row and for some reason he is STILL not getting the respect that he deserves from some of us on Lowkick. GSP is not invincible, therefore there's always a chance of him losing anytime he gets into the Octagon. Shields may not be a great striker, however I don't see him getting Ko'd anytime by GSP. If the fight goes to the ground, we will definitely have a new CHAMP!

Jake Shields does have a great grappling/wrestling pedigree but even if his grappling/wrestling level is above gsp's, the gap shouldn't be too great to the point that jake shields can completely dominate him on the ground. However, GSP' has a huge advantage striking against jake shields...AND we don't have to worry about GSPs chin that some people question. At this point, I can't see Shields winning, but of course its mma and anything can happen.

I've been a GSP fan for ages. I'm disappointed in his safe game plans. I want the GSP of old back and the only way he will come back is if he doesn't have that belt. Once he loses the belt, he can fight the way he used to and just go wild on everyone because the burden of being a champion and losing isn't on his back anymore.



Being a champion puts a safety lock on your abilities. You don't want to over commit and get KO'd or subbed. That's my opinion. When you are fighting for title contention you put it all on the line, go for those finishes, be aggressive to proof you are worthy and to hopefully get the finish as quick as possible.

I think you have just distinguished the difference between a champion and a great champion.

gsp will ultimately destroy shields in everything he will out strike the shit out of shields if shields try to get him down his take down will get stuffed if he does end up on the ground it will only last a short time and shields will tire soon enough because of the weight cut thats when he will be in a world of shit from gsp... i also think that shields wont even win one round either and he will look foolish and exploited in the fight by gsp...

He survived an Hbomb and tookdown and gassed out a 185 henderson who has "no strength at that weight" as he said himself. GSP is a cardio machine, and unlike most strikers shields has faced, he can defend a takedown. and shields is a DBAG treehugger. weak.

omg people had alot to say about this...

lets just make it simple

JAKE SHIELDS WILL NEVER EVER DEFEAT GSP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

maybe in a pie eating contest or a game of chess or something like that.

you have to look at WHO Shields has beaten and I am not ragging on him but a lot of the opponents' style were either tailor made or there's an asterisk as to why he beat them, for example Dan Hendo had the worst cut of his life and now will be concentrating on the 205 division. Mayhem came in within 4 seconds of choking him out and that's closer to ending the fight than Jake had in the 25 minutes they fought.



I also think that he LOST to Kampmann, personally and Kampmann was a total ass for going for some positions in the 3rd round, to finish the fight instead of grinding Jake out...it was extremely frustrating to me and i'm sure to many other Kampmann fans/ fans who understand grappling...

I think for Jake to win... he HAS to dictate the pace of the fight... he will have to decide where the fight is going and keep it going it that direction for every round..



This is where GSP is King... his opponents that have had better striking (Thiago, Hardy) were scared to strike because every time they try to strike they get taken down...



If you look at GSP's win over Fitch, GSP was totally in control of where the fight was going... Shields needs to rush GSP, put him on his back and keep him on his back for all 5 rounds... but as long as GSP can dictate the terms of the fight - he will win virtually every time.



My 0.02 cents...

98% of low kickers here have GSP's nuts in their mouth, seriously give Shields props, his beat some pretty good fighters, if you dont think he has a chance of beating GSP you blind...



WAR SHIELDS!!!



now go ahead and weak me,lets see how many people here have GSP's nuts in their mouth

I wish both fighters well, but I still can not see the merit in this matchup. The Henderson fight was a fluke - 8/10 times it would have been Henderson with a KO. Okami should have won hands down. The Kampman fight could have gone either way, but I would have definitely picked Kampman. Suprisingly with Shields, judges reward his control without striking or submission attempts. Most fighters get the opposite.



Comparing past opponents, Koscheck is a much better combination wrestler/striker. Shield's takedowns are generally either lunges or simply dropping down and getting a hold of something. Those approaches are very unlikely to work well against GSP.



GSP has great takedown defense and from his back can stand up, strike and work submissions with few peers. Shields with very limited striking from the top has little hope of making any progress on submissions. I think it much more likely that GSP finishes with a choke. Although I really think he will finish with striking from standup.



Shields control on top is impressive and has been winning him fights, but, GSP on top of him will be a much different story. GSP on top will throw lots of solid & accurate strikes to open up submissions.



I really like the wrestling and while most would probably not want to see it, I think a Fitch vs. Shields would be a much more interesting matchup than this. It would be impossible to do the slow motion control with him and would be a great ground war similar to BJ.



Time will tell...

Since when are Dan Henderson and Robbie Lawler elite strikers?



Don't look for GSP to go for many takedowns during the fight, his best bet is to keep it on the feet. Shields is likely the worst striker in the UFC, and GSP is just a couple notches below Anderson Silva.



I expect GSP to use his jab a lot, and throw quite a bit of leg kicks. Nothing fancy, but GSP will win