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Originally Posted by ninjastix
I disagree that it's "over-rated", Gsp's striking is good... the second part of that statement is right on the money though...
Even though GSP has the ability, should he pursue, to out strike many welterweights, based on previous fights of both fighters I think it's fairly obvious that Silva's striking is on a completely different level...
You can assume several things:
1. Anderson is going to be comfortable wherever the fight should go
2. Gsp is going to look to take the fight down
3. Both fighters are smart, in good shape, and have fought top level competition
I don't think conditioning enters into it, I don't think either guy is going to get tired. I think Gsp's best chance of winning is to lock in a submission on Silva or scoring on GnP...
but... to me that's a long shot... it's the path of least resistance to assume that Silva can catch Gsp...
Either way... and you can quote me on this... I do NOT see this fight happening anytime in the next 2 or 3 years.
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You are taking a post of mine from 6 months ago and completely taking it out of context.
I was replying to a post where someone said we were giving GSP no credit for his standup and referred to it as "nothing". I never said GSP didn't have good standup... I said it was overrated... you can be overrated and good.
And I stick by my post from half a year ago that his standup is overrated. He still hasn't stood and traded with anyone since he got KO'd by Serra. I'm sure he could outstrike Hughes, but he did not want to deal with Kos or Serra standing and neither could hold a candle to Anderson Silva.