GSP thinks talk of Anderson Silva superfight is terrible
Posted on September 10, 2012, 01:34 PM by Mike DrahotaLegendary UFC champion Anderson Silva has long been rumored to be set to face longtime Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre in a superfight should GSP defeat Carlos Condit at UFC 154. Silva even stated recently that he would fight St. Pierre whether he won or lost, and Dana White has been adamant about the fight taking place at Dallas Cowboys Stadium. But today, GSP has revealed that talk of the superfight is getting a bit too premature as he feels there is still much work left to be done at 170 lbs.:
"It's terrible. I hate that, but I'm not focusing on that. I'm not speculating. I'm thinking about Condit right now. That's what I should do. I feel like I have a lot of guys that are there and I don't understand why people are going crazy now, but I just came back from an injury, so maybe some people see me as a weak link. We'll see what's going to happen in the future.” - via MMAWeekly.com
GSP went on to describe his excitement about returning to the fold in a division that he had once been thought to have cleaned out. He thinks that Condit is being disrespected slightly by all the talk being focused on Anderson Silva rather than the task in front of him. GSP discussed Greg Jackson staying out of the corners of either fighter, choosing to avoid controversy among his students. He avoided any trash talk, choosing to divert his attention to the aspect of the actual fight. Should GSP focus on the Welterweight division, or is he diverting any and all attention from the fight everyone wants to see?
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damn gsp??! wtf Silva has stated he will drop down to welterweight??
stop being such a SAFETY FIRST fighter, you should of became a crossing guard!!!
no Silva never stated he will drop down to WW... would be cool if he did, but he did not say that
Ughhh, you sir are a moron. Anderson Silva has NEVER said he would drop to 170lbs, b/c if he did, he would & GSP would fight Silva at 170lbs. GSP would fight anyone at 170lbs, if Silva could make 170lbs & the UFC gave him a title fight vs. GSP, GSP would have no choice but to fight Silva. The ONLY reason Jones didn't have to fight Sonnen (when Henderson was injured) was b/c Jones agreed to fight Henderson & signed a contract stating that fact. If the UFC wanted to give Sonnen a title fight vs. Jones, and they said Jones your next oponent is Sonnen in 3 months time, Jones pretty much has no choice but to fight Sonnen & sign the dotted line. Fighters ONLY have to fight who they agreed to fight, which is why they sign contracts.
Silva stated he would fight at a catch weight of 178lbs, which was half way for both fighters, but has sense retracted that comment. If I'm not mistaken Silva will only fight GSP at 180lbs minimum, if not 185lbs.
hunter i will gladly dig up the link on lowkick for you............
Dana said he said it a few posts back?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UosROBx0Zo
There ya go retard, you can shutup now. That was 2 and a half years ago because i know you guys can't count, since you're acting as though the idea of silva fighting GSP is new and GSP making excuses isn't stupid by now.
he needs to state it again because he last said thecatchweight he was willing to fight at was what? 180. if he says 170 again george may consider and have a chance to dry hump
Go find the link onemoreround, do not come back to this website until you do so.
http://lowkick.blitzcorner.com/UFC/Dana-White-discusses-Anderson-Silvas-170-intentions-casino-debts-and-Afghanistan-7125
There's the lowkick link. Interesting how few posts there are. It's like you guys said to yourselves ömg what excuses can we make now?!"
Remember the HUGE smile on GSPS face after the demian maia fight, now we know why.
Man, that plan sure worked out didn't it. Who'd he fight in his first match up at 170.
How bout the most rececnt article where he named a platoon of people who get him to 184 safely?
U are an IDIOT!
The only reason he'd move to 170 is to fight GSP, why else would he waste his time? Maybe post the article where GSP said YES,ILL DEFINITELY FIGHT SILVA IF HE MOVES DOWN! or else shutup.
So why didn't he do it? Because Dana said so? That wasn't the CASE (yay caps again!) last year when Dana was telling him to fight Chael right after the Stann fight. Does he just pick and choose what he listens to Dana about?
...So you're saying he can make his own matches even if dana opposes him? You're saying that if dana says he can't fight GSP, he can just go and fight him anyways? or are you too dense to notice that i stated it would be a waste of time.
Where's the part where GSP accepts the challenge? yea, you can't post it because it never happened, hence why we're on a page where GSP makes his latest excuse, 2 and a half years later.
Exactly! Where's the part where the fight was even close to being made? Where's the proof of Anderson ever even thinking about coming down besides an off hand comment from Dana? Where's the proof of GSP ever being offered the fight in the first place?
Your proof is this: GSP saw Anderson fight Maia, and decided it was not wise to fight him if he cut 15 more lbs. That's asinine. There is absolutely zero validity to it. I could just as easily say this: Dana protected Anderson from moving down because he knew old fighters dropping down a weight class have a terrible record in combat sports (RJJ, ODLH), and he didn't want the MW division to lose all its value if Anderson got crushed by GSP.
See how easy that is? Just spin it the way you want from one statement made over 2 years ago.
So you seriously just said something that stupid and i'm sure you'll wonder why i can't take you seriously.Isn't there a jon jones thread that needs you to comment about how he runs the UFC? With anderson making the fights ofcourse.
And that's not proof,it's just yet another thing that went over your head. GSP probably decided not to fight anderson as soon as he realized there was an idea of him fighting anderson.Even if you construct that strawman(you are still too stupid to know what this is) you still have to explain why GSP is still dodging silva.
IF your statement was true(it isn't) GSP should have jumped at the chance to do that bout, but he didn't, he smiled when dana was saying anderson doesn't deserve the bout.
See how easy that was? Subjective reasoning always fails in the face of objective logic.
There was no opportunity to jump at. That's the problem you're having in this situation. You've created a make believe reality in your own mind to A) excuse the worst (at the time) performance by Anderson in the UFC and B) to invent a scenario that puts Anderson one up on GSP (even though there's no reason to do so) even though there is zero proof.
The problem with you is (actually out of the many) is you are unable to be objective when it comes to Anderson Silva. He can do no wrong in your eyes because you might actually literally love him. In this case the infatuation is bordering on the stalker level. "Dana said Anderson would drop to 170, but never made the fight... GSP is ducking Anderson!!"
Do you know what kind of failure in logic it is to come to that conclusion with no evidence of GSP ever being actually offered the fight in the first place? Do you know how dumb it sounds to imply that Anderson made Demian Maia look stupid when he spent the final rounds of their fight running around in circles?
Do you understand that saying something over and over "GSP dodging Silva..." doesn't automatically make it a fact?
There you go writing retarded books again.these nuggets i try to flush must be parts of your self-esteem or something.
Well then, if pretty much everyone knew about the idea of a superfight between them at that time,we're supposed to believe that somehow GSP showed up ringside and still hadn't heard of the idea, and that's why he didn't accept?
You may be that stupid, but i doubt even the army of imbeciles will back you up on that.Pretty sure that if someone can use taunts from a video game in a fight against you, in addition to stretching and jokingly hiding behind the ref, it doesn't make you look good. But what do you know? All your fights are on here.
Might also be why the army of imbeciles were acting as though maia was never a challenge afterwards also..pretty hard to deny that but i'm sure you'll think of something since you have all day.
No, we're supposed to realize that he was never offered the fight. Not that he hadn't heard of the fight. But for whatever reason he was never offered the fight after Silva's performance against Maia.
The "army of imbeciles" on here? I'm not sure what they were saying. You see, I wasn't on here yet so I can't comment for them as you do repeatedly. However, what anybody with a unbiased opinion saw was a guy who outmatched another fighter, couldn't finish him, then decided to run laps for the remainder of the fight.
"You may be that stupid, but i doubt even the army of imbeciles will back you up on that.Pretty sure that if someone can use taunts from a video game in a fight against you, in addition to stretching and jokingly hiding behind the ref, it doesn't make you look good. But what do you know? All your fights are on here."
This literally says nothing. Just you talking smack.
Couldn't finish him or didn't finish him? meh. You don't seem to be the type of guy that can see beyond what's immediately there(sensor) so because i know what i know we'll leave that one.
Ofcourse that paragraph doesn't have alot of depth, look what i was responding to.
Wait, so your trying to say Anderson could finish him and just didn't want to? You buy the opinion that he just decided to coast for the last half of the fight, but could have finished him at any time he wanted?
That actually makes sense that you would accept that as a legitimate opinion. It makes Silva look good in a terrible performance.
Yes, it was repsonding to an opinion that pokes holes in your argument. I know that you don't respond well when that happens.
AS said catchweight, 170, or 185 it doesnt matter..........
Ouch.
atleast george is making sense of the situation. why foreshadow when carlos can ko him the same as anderson and other welterweights
Agreed. Really what GSP is doing is respecting Condit. He'd be foolish not to.
Thank you Georges for clarifying to your fans everything I've been saying for the past 2 years regarding the "mega fight" between you and Anderson Silva. Like I've said many times before, you absolutely want no part of Anderson Silva and quite frankly I have no problem with you not wanting to take such risk whatsoever, which would be the logical move on your part. If that fight were to happen, Dana White, Joe Silva, and the UFC would be doing you nothing but a disservice as we already know what the result of the fight would be. Perhaps an early retirement due to an embarrassing KO by A.S, or an absolute destruction. Unfortunately for you and your fans, you would not be able to hold him down for 25 minutes as you've done to 80% of your past opponents, please ask Chael, GREAT WRESTLER, H-bomb Dan,and T. Lutter for more info. They've all tried, yet failed short as always. Well, Georges, it's a trap and I sure hope you're smart enough not to fall for it.
P.S. Dana, please leave poor Georges alone and let him be a champ in his OWN division.
GO JETS.
couldnt of said it better, gsp KNOWS he has NO CHANCE agaisnt silva sorry gsp fans
its true literally gsps head is half the size of andersons, and his only advantage is the technical aspect of wrestling. silva is simply too big. look at chael he is just about as good as gsp in wrestling but way stronger and he got destroyed
I don't know if we have GSP fans here so much as silva haters. it's the same thing with chael or whoever. These idiots claim their boy will win but they obviously never bet any money and then when it's time for the fight there's nothing but excuses handed out and maybe an article about how silva didn't win the right way.
In this case, GSP himself offers another excuse and really if he just said "NO I DON'T WANT T|HE FIGHT! PERIOD!!"then i'd have no problem but acting like it's going to happen after 4 freaking years irks me greatly.
It's really the same thing as Anderson Silva making excuses for not wanting to fight Jon Jones. I would imagine the size difference from being a smaller fighter to a larger champion is intimidating. You should stop making such retarded posts, it makes you look like an idiot.
Glorifying Anderson Silva for wanting the fight with GSP and then denying the Jones fight is total hypocrisy. Since you always claim to be an intelligent human being, I dont see why you would make such an ignorant post. Get those Silva balls out of your mouth, it's not a good look on you.
jones is also denying to fight silva and vice versa so what??!! your point is..................................silva and gsp both verbally agreed to a bout
Stick your head back in the sand where it belongs hunter. Jones said he didn't want to fight silva either so take my advice and stop talking while your hat is still a seat.
GSP in the meantime has fought bj penn 2 times already and the second time he was pretty slippery i heard.None of the nuthuggers who bash anderson for not winning properly, or jones for not fighting some idiot, or brock or whoever have any credibility, objectivity, or originality and not one of these sycophants even knows what to think without someone else saying so first.
Nemesis, I would never take advice from a retarded troll. Get Anderson Silvas **** out of your throat, I don't even know how someone could function with a humans **** constantly shoved into their windpipe.
Anderson Silva visibly applied vaseline to his body (such as you just mentioned about GSP) and cheated during the fight, and was never penalized. "Blah blah blah you're a Chael nuthugger because you said something against AS that was true blah blah blah".
You are just another hypocrite fan boy who cannot face facts. You live in a fantasy world with the rest of the morons on this site who believe the way you do.
The only credit i'll give you, is you found a video from 2 1/2 years ago where Anderson Silva said he would drop to 170. Might I add was so irrelevant, that even now the fighter you speak of is not saying 170lbs.
In no shape or form has he followed through with his claims, or even attempted to. As recent as last month, AS said he would fight at 178lbs. He isn't mentioning 170lbs anymore, is he?
But in your thick ignorant skull, your brain thinks that some how you have justified that my opinion is wrong, when all actuality it was my opinion in the first place. Run a long troll, back to your cave.
Well BJ was an idiot for wanting to fight a bigger champion, we have weight classes for a reason.
Yea and the fans who hyped GSP for beating BJ are idiots. Funny how BJ was an idiot for wanting to fight basically anyone (machida,wtf) but when jon jones refuses to fight some clown people get all menstrual.
I thought "a true champion fights anyone"
Clarifying for*
anderson should fight weidman gsp is best at 70
I agree ak4782823402438242342342423423424, one time i will agree with you, maybe if you start making sense there will be more
F Anderson, you should be fighting at 205 not go down to 170. Silva walked around 210-215 and he 6'2. Damn coward trying to pick an easy fight.
GSP would get his ass kick if he fought with anderson. Let see GSP fight with the top 3 185lbs first then give him to Anderson.
ohhhhh **** up **** sakes every1 on here makes me sik
Don't we have weight classes for a reason?
"GSP thinks talk of Anderson Silva superfight is terrible"
That word "terrible" was used to answer the question : why is everyone else ignoring Condit and just focused on your fight with Silva.
So thank you author, you should go work for fox news.
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