I was watching the Ultimate Fighter last night and it got me thinking about this fight. You wanna talk about upsets forget Jardine/Liddell this may be the biggest upset of them all. Serra was confident, telling everyone he was gonna shock the world. Of course nobody thought he could actually beat the unstoppable Champ that was GSP. Serra came out and took care of business in exciting fashion.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Matt Serra vs Georges St Pierre- The Upset Before All The Upsets
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that was ok
lol georgie tapped out.
hated to see GSP lose like that.
still kills me everytime i watch this fight:(
Sera's face right after he won: "I actually beat him?"
i love this fight
canadian faggot got wrecked by the USA bus
Im so tired of hearing about how much of an upset this fight was. For any true fan of mma the first thing we should learn is that although technique and ability are a large part of every win its the gameplan that secures your win, i.e. Yushin Okami (who im really no fan of, but the guys gameplans give him the wins, even though by decision) GSP has all the technique and ability to be a great fighter, no doubt, but it seems that he takes no concern for gameplan and it carried him this far. I've watched this fight about 5 times now and i can't see it any other way than this: For starters I chose Serra to win TUF and once St. Pierre beat Hughes (which I have mixed feelings over, he kicked Hughes in the nuts twice and I know Big John said it was an accident but if you look at the second shot his leg didn't slide up, he hit him straight on in the nuts, that to me regardless of intention is worthy of a point reduction after doing so twice. You can see Hughes brace himself for it when he got hit in the head. Hughes has never dropped his hands like that and ended up getting caught for protecting his nuts, but I'm off subject.) I knew Serra could take him no problem with the correct gameplan and he had it. I can never see how you can just discredit a guy based on his current standing in a division and its not like Serra fought a bunch of pushovers to win TUF, not saying that GSP has in his rise to the title. Anywho, to the fight already, if you watch closely and know the history of each fighter you will understand what I'm about to say. First off the fight starts and everyone begins heckling Serra for staying at a distance with GSP due to the "danger" of it. If you know GSP then you know that the majority of his striking power comes from his kicks, which he throws often. Serra's distance in the fight wasn't for fear of the strikes, that's not Serra's style either although he is a ju jitsu guy he can strike, his distance was to counter the kicks. He stayed far enough away from GSP that he could dodge any kick thrown and rush in and counter, the perfect gameplan for someone who puts so much pride in their kicks. I didn't see GSP land a single worthy kick and we all should know that his punches don't pack the power for him when he's standing, all his punching TKO's were on the ground. Serra showed us that there's more to striking than originally thought, there's technique and then there's just being a smart striker and in this fight the smarter striker beat the more technical striker, not all that hard to see now is it? On another note I can't wait for GSP vs. Hughes 3. I think both fighters are gonna focus on gameplan for this one and wouldn't be surprised to see a full 5 rounder. Oh and could you find Roger Huerta vs. Leonard Garcia from UFC 69 as well. I know it wasn't the greatest fight but those two just throw down in that fight and if you thought Garcia was easy pickens for Huerta just look at Garcia's face for the majority of the fight. Nothing but smiles.
^ that's reaaaallllly LOOOOOOOONGGGG
But yeah, that WAS a HUGE Upset. Wow... I saw Serra v Lytle, and was like, HOW THE HELL DID HE BEAT GSP!?!?
lol
I know it's kind of late, but in defense of GSP's "groin attacks", Hughes said it himself afterwards that the kicks didn't really hit him in the groin. I don't think Hughes dropped his hands because he was worried about his groin, he was more worried about his baddly beaten up legs from the many successful and obviously painful leg kicks delivered by GSP. You could see he didn't even want to walk on his legs anymore near the end of the fight.
Fucking RAPED LOL! GTFO CANADA
Maybe hughes should have learned how to check a leg kick! Hughes was too slow and the only thing he could do to protect his leg was turn into the kicks while trying to slide his leg back, unfortunately that meant trying to block the kicks with his balls, lol, how about that for a gameplan!
GSP completely disregarded Serra's standup which is why he was beat. Hughes was dominant for so long because of his style, as it doesn't lend itself out to knockouts. Even the best strikers will always eventually get clipped by a good punch and get KO'd and the list is 10 times longer than the dominant ground guy being submitted in a fight.
If GSP wants to excite the crowd with more KO's, he will have to take fights to the ground for at least the first round in order to significantly reduce the knockout threat to himself as almost all welterweights lose their ko power in their hands after the first round, however he will still be extremely dangerous with his kicks.
I agree that GSP doesn't have much KO power in his hands but that is almost entirely due to the fact that he very rarely plants his feet, with the positive tradeoff being that he is able to avoid virtually all counterstrikes and takedowns. That being said, there aren't any huge punchers in welterweight and GSP is near the top even in that discipline. For the record, he knocked out Jay Hieron with only punches.
In regards to anonymous(go figure)
That was a fluke. Watch the second fight coming up. Serra is going down hard. What happened to the all American something Hughes? Worked. Not to take anything away from Serra he's still better than Hughes, but he's going down.GSP is the best pound for pound fighter in the world.
Obviously you didn't see the Serra Peryisian fight. Serra looked horrible and GSP worked Peryisian. That last GSP had against Hughes was a lesson in MMA. He's still the only one to dominate Hughes that way. Pretty brave comments from an anonymous american idiot.
Also that so called canadian faggot worked a lot of top U.S fighters. such as Frank Trigg twice,Hughes twice Karo Parisyan,Josh Koscheck, Mayhem Miller,Jay Heiron, Shawn Sherk and B.J. Penn.Just to name a few. Serra is going down! Anonymous is a dumbass.
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