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Originally Posted by Palma
A good example is to look at what Nog did to Sylvia as soon as he was able to get Tim in his guard. He subbed him unless then 10 seconds.
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See in Nog's case though, he wanted to take down Sylvia but got stuffed for 2 rounds (besides the last second takedown in rd1). Nog finally decided to pull guard after his TDs failed. It was almost his backup.
For GSP though, he has not needed to go down that route. I know it's good to have a plan B (much like Nog) but he has a very strong Plan A. He has continually demonstrated that he can take down his opponents successfuly most of the time. Even against BJ, if he get stuffed on the TDs, I think he will decide to do what he did in the first fight, pick him up and slam him. Plus, pulling guard against BJ is probably the dumbest idea even if you have a good guard.
I think the Alves fight will be the most interesting one for GSP in terms of pulling guard. Alves has better striking and has shown great TDD. GSP is going to have a hard time slamming Alves too. So if GSP keeps failing to take him down and is getting the worst of the standup, would he want to keep banging it out on the feet or would he actually pull guard (much like Hughes)?