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Originally Posted by docbungle
GSP did decimate Hardy. Hardy didn't win one second of one round. Sort of like the first time Kos challenged GSP for the belt. Kos has improved a bit, of course, but he was a very solid fighter when GSP wiped the floor with him. I love how people berate GSP for not "finishing" an opponent. He's finished TONS of opponents over the years. Everyone was hyping Kos's wrestling before the first GSP fight, but look what happened.
Anything can happen in MMA, and Kos is a great fighter, but don't try to insinuate that GSP has to put every single person away to be a dominant fighter.
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I agree that Hardy didn't win anywhere but for someone like Hardy who has been lambasted as having zero ground game to not get grounded and pounded or submitted by GSP, who has a stellar ground game, says a lot. Hell, Hardy didn't even look like he had gone through a 5 round fight after the fight. He looked perfectly fine.
Yes, GSP has finished a lot of opponents in the past but he's been fine with settling for decisions lately, against the likes of Alves, Fitch and Hardy. He should have finished every single one of those fights. Alves and Hardy have absolutely terrible ground games and GSP's is "amazing". Fitch is one of my favorite fighters and it pisses me off that people absolutely love GSP but hate Fitch for their respective fighting styles. They are exactly the damn same. Fitch is like GSP junior with an actual personality. And Koshcheck is the last person to have won a round against GSP. I'm not saying that he's going to win when they fight but still.