Great, so if GSP wins, we get to hear all the "GSP outwrestled this person or that person" nuthuggers talk about how he should have a blackbelt because he "outbjj'd" someone. I'm looking forward to it.
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Originally Posted by kennywuzhere
i only think that will be UPSET of the year because almost everyone has GSP in the TOP 3 or 4 of their P4P lists, yet FITCH is an afterthought when it comes to P4P.....
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That's because most people who make p4p lists are idiots and don't understand what p4p means...neither of Fitch nor GSP belong on a top 5 p4p list...they're both huge WW's who are generally much bigger than their opponents. When you factor in GSP's loss to Serra [regardless of whether he avenged it or not] he's just not great p4p.
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Originally Posted by atj-lucko
I am staring to think the term "black belt" doesn't mean anything anymore.
There are degrees of a true black belt, and Fitch is not the same as Jacare's black belt.
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Originally Posted by Bones McGee
It does seem like they are beginning to just give away black belts? Two years ago having a black belt meant a little something, of course there were variances in instructors perceptions of what a bb really is.
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Not busting on either of you, but if I haven't trained with his instructor/camp, I wouldn't make judgements of whether the belt was "given" away or not, or whether someone earning it doesn't "mean anything." Belts awarded in a given discipline may or may not translate well to MMA, but that doesn't mean they were given out like candy or aren't a worthy accomplishment.
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