Burns fight shows the great difference between GSP and Uzman.

[Fahcough]

that's the intriguing part!
Since they trained together, they know each other's weaknesses and we will have to wait and find out who gets the better of it.

Burns jumped on that fight quick. He screamed yes, no matter the low pay. He knows something.

 

[Shaddows]

Burns jumped on that fight quick. He screamed yes, no matter the low pay. He knows something.

True that.But don't you think that Usman has been preparing for this as well?

 

[Fahcough]

True that.But don't you think that Usman has been preparing for this as well?

Usman is a tank and a solid champ but Burns goes 5 rounds with Woodley and takes no time off, then accepts a champ fight the next week that's less than a month away. If he shoots early instead of striking, he knows Kamaru has a weakness somewhere in grappling.

 

[chinarice]

Do you really believe that?

You think a 38 year old 35+ fight vet is in his prime?

You don't like Anderson fine, but it's time to stop the nonsense.

A win streak has nothing to do with a fighters peak or prime......you could clearly see Anderson wasn't the same fighter in 2013 as the one in 2006-2010, he literally had a dad bod in those fights.

I see you didn't reply to the nonsense about GSP post ACL surgeries still being in his prime and being retired by Hendricks and I always reply to TheSpider with the same reply to his silly comments about GSP and like clockwork, I always get the Silva fans replying to my comment specifically.. Typical.

I get it though, you guys all hate GSP.

 

[Shaddows]

Usman is a tank and a solid champ but Burns goes 5 rounds with Woodley and takes no time off, then accepts a champ fight the next week that's less than a month away. If he shoots early instead of striking, he knows Kamaru has a weakness somewhere in grappling.

I agree.
But one of the variables of this fight is also how Burns is active.
While it can pay off, it can also burn him out.

this is an intriguing fight, and I'd hate to see it marred by one of them not being 100%

 

[ultrasonic]

Gsp got subbed by a wrestler

 

[Bouboumaster]

What is this non sense lol

GSP would absolutly murder Burns. He would do the same to Usman too.
Current GSP, that is. Prime GSP would do it better.

Also we don't know how good GSP is in BJJs competition, but what we do know is that he'a good enough to be a black belt under John Danaher.
And he's also good enough to be able to not worry about a guy like Jake fucking Shields.
So I'd say he's easely good enough to dispatch a dude like Burns.

 

[I am your real dad]

LOL
Such asinine post!
As if GSP's BJJ comes even remotely close to Burns.

Oh, and BTW, Burns also have great standup now, so He might be the one who put GSP down, just like Serra did.... but wait... what am I saying? GSP would have run from him worse than he run from Whittaker!!
Sorry, my mistake!

Keep dreaming fanboy!

Burns put GSP down?

Keep dreaming Alice.

 

[Stop Being Greedy]

GSP absolutely did have elite BJJ

if you think BJJ = submissions you're a can

Yep. GSP's Jiu-Jitsu was and still is elite. The people saying otherwise just don't understand grappling. Might as well say Arona wasn't elite either.

 

[I am your real dad]

if it is to pull ancient history to make a point, go shed some tears on this, kid.

Burns getting kod didn't happen that long ago.

Also GSP got revenge while Burns ran crying to another weight class. just look at his tears!

 

[BushidoMalik]

Get off his nuts! I really hope Burns eats Usman and then GSP gets the gonads to come get smacked one more time real quick thinking Burns ain't about it.

 

[neonbelly***]

If Usman goes on an infinity win streak he'll get the same hype.

 

[r-harper-1]

Gsp likely would fight Burns how he fought Shields ....

 

[Poser Caust]

Apparently GSP had elevated his BJJ game exponentially during the 4 years off. We didn't really see much of it in the Bisping fight. That's why the Khabib fight would have been so interesting to me.

 

[spannered]

He was gassing in the 3rd round

And he was also carrying an extra 15lb of muscle he didn't need.

 

[MM808]

LOL
Such asinine post!
As if GSP's BJJ comes even remotely close to Burns.

Oh, and BTW, Burns also have great standup now, so He might be the one who put GSP down, just like Serra did.... but wait... what am I saying? GSP would have run from him worse than he run from Whittaker!!
Sorry, my mistake!

Keep dreaming fanboy!

I honestly think burns would have a great shot against GSP too. The sport and the fighters have evolved. I’d take most of the new champs over the old champs majority of the time.

 

[randomg1t]

Yep. GSP's Jiu-Jitsu was and still is elite. The people saying otherwise just don't understand grappling. Might as well say Arona wasn't elite either.

i'm curious, what makes GSP's BJJ elite?

his credentials outside of MMA are not exactly stellar. he dominated people on the ground brilliantly, but rarely showed much of pure BJJ in his fights. the best argument to make regarding his BJJ being high level is the fact that he passed penn's guard - and that is impressive - but penn was a lot smaller and took a beating first if i recall correctly.

bottom line is, if GSP grappled with durinho, he'd be in trouble instantly. now, i'd pick prime GSP over burns and usman, but that doesn't mean that his BJJ was much better than kamaru's. they're both black belts, they've both shown excellent control on the mat, they both use BJJ to complement their wrestling games, and neither one of them has any credentials to prove they have truly elite BJJ.

arona is arguably one of the best (or at least most effective) no-gi ground fighters in history. i know you were being intentionally hyperbolic to make a point, but there are people actually fighting in MMA who deserve to be mentioned as his peers in that category. GSP isn't one of them.

 

[tekkenfan]

I think Uzman is great good, but Burns have a real shot here. Do I think he will win? Probably not, but he has a good shot.

On the other hand, if he were to fight prime GSP, no one would give him much of a chance, and rightfully so. Because Uzman and GSP probably can take down Burns easily, but only one of them has the elite BJJ.

I think it really shows how great GSP was.

gsp is the technical goat by far funny that people try t hate on him for 2 times out of 16 years he looked human i wish gsp would come smash marty now but the way he sees it hes already king of ww and came back t win 185 belt so no need to go back to 170

 

[King in the North]

None of this makes any sense.

 

[tekkenfan]

i'm curious, what makes GSP's BJJ elite?

his credentials outside of MMA are not exactly stellar. he dominated people on the ground brilliantly, but rarely showed much of pure BJJ in his fights. the best argument to make regarding his BJJ being high level is the fact that he passed penn's guard - and that is impressive - but penn was a lot smaller and took a beating first if i recall correctly.

bottom line is, if GSP grappled with durinho, he'd be in trouble instantly. now, i'd pick prime GSP over burns and usman, but that doesn't mean that his BJJ was much better than kamaru's. they're both black belts, they've both shown excellent control on the mat, they both use BJJ to complement their wrestling games, and neither one of them has any credentials to prove they have truly elite BJJ.

arona is arguably one of the best (or at least most effective) no-gi ground fighters in history. i know you were being intentionally hyperbolic to make a point, but there are people actually fighting in MMA who deserve to be mentioned as his peers in that category. GSP isn't one of them.

gsps jj is amazing hed destroy any single person on f2 yeah earlier and even in the 2010s he wasnt that smooth but the last 4 years after he retired hes made massive improvements danaher has vouched to him subbing tons of top no gi specialist that would surprise us how he jumped on bisping in his fight back also showed his improvement

dudes had 4 years to jut=st work on technique not have to fight go hard and learn new skills