It's a real factor. Nothing is black and white. Of course there are other factors. Like home relationships. We don't have the answers.
GSP's style metally breaks opponents, this is a fact. We saw it happen to a finish against Serra and Penn. We've see his opponents cover up and wait.
My point remains the same . I believe most fighters would rather lose fighting , than be technically outclassed and out matched for 25 mins, with no offense to show for it.
It will mentally effect lots of people negatively. No matter the sport or game.
That’s too much speculation n can’t really be used as an a legit argument
Anderson also had fighters on his record with good runs before facing him, but then fell off after. There too we could assume he “broke them”
James Irvin won 4/5 fights before facing Anderson, n then lost 4/5. So does that mean he broke him?
Travis lutter too won 4/5 fights before facing Anderson, n then went 1/2 n retired. Again did Anderson break him as well?
It makes no sense to try n play a psychologist here n guess what was their mindset.
We can only look at the numbers n see a pattern where most of gsp opponents on good runs are not able to sustain their winning after facing him.
Some did, but most did not.
Now it makes no sense to assume top athletes/fighters would just fold after one tough loss. A tough loss would have an opposite affect on a true competitor.
It would lit fire under their ass n made them get better.
You really think non of those guys wanted to face gsp again?
He himself would always say after they fought that a loss would make them better fighters.
That’s what happen to him as well, twice.
When he lost to Hughes n Serra, he was probably questioning himself at 1st, but then that gave him extra motivation to get better.
So he either did “break them”, which means they didn’t have winners mentality or they simply weren’t that good n started losing when facing better competition
