you are crazy and simply wrong.GSP has a matchup weakness; with great wrestlers, with big power. Diaz & Condit were able to win a round via strikes. Obviously both had terrible takedown defense.
Hendricks was able to emphatically win the 2nd & 4th due to big power and great takedown defense. Imo, Romero was going to be a tough matchup at 185.
Jon Jones matches up well with Francis, let alone Gane. One has bad takedown defense and the other has bad cardio. As long as Jon isn’t washed, I could see him defending his belt. Stipe is his toughest matchup, imo.
Gane is a fringe top 5 HW (I'd put him at 5 or 6), whereas Bisping arguably wasn't even one of the 10 best MWs at the time.
Lmao… Ping was an old man with more tear and wear than a 300k miles 1995 Camry. Fatelum flattened him like a taco bell quesadilla a few months later. Gane is in his absolute prime. Gsp took the Ping fight for a reason…. he’s a very smart man. Jones is taking a HUGE risk here.
Bisping had one eye and a reconstructed knee and retired one fight later.
I had thought about that... until I thought some more. Bisping was well past his prime, slower and missing an eye.
Gane is in his physical prime, probably quicker than Jones, who has packed on mass and is testing HW for the first time against somebody who he won't have a huge reach or height advantage over.
Jones has had an amazing career, but half his prime has been wasted outside the octagon. I'm sure he'll show some flashes of his former self, but Gane is taking this.
Good thing Gane has two eyes though.
Gane has 2 eyes buddeh
Gane only has one eye?
That is what I came here to say.No, it's not.
-Gane is in his prime. Bisping wasn't.
-GSP was always training. JBJ wasn't.
-GSP has a healthy lifestyle. JBJ doesn't.
No, it's not.
-Gane is in his prime. Bisping wasn't.
-GSP was always training. JBJ wasn't.
-GSP has a healthy lifestyle. JBJ doesn't.
Relative to who?
and you can argue jones lost to matt hamill too. that actually makes sense.
check his record.
Perfectly summed up. If anything, Jones is more like Nick Diaz, who also came back after a multi-year bender.No, it's not.
-Gane is in his prime. Bisping wasn't.
-GSP was always training. JBJ wasn't.
-GSP has a healthy lifestyle. JBJ doesn't.
A few weeks later actually. Bisping fought Gastelum and retired just 3 weeks after the GSP fight. I agree with you, the Jones-Gane fight is different in that Gane is in his prime and Bisping was on the brink of retiring.Lmao… Ping was an old man with more tear and wear than a 300k miles 1995 Camry. Fatelum flattened him like a taco bell quesadilla a few months later. Gane is in his absolute prime. Gsp took the Ping fight for a reason…. he’s a very smart man. Jones is taking a HUGE risk here.
The only similarity is that both Jones and GSP are opportunists who only moved up weight class due to them identifying a strategically winnable fight. The difference, however, is that I think Jones has miscalculated, and will lose to Gane.Jones came off a controversial decision win over Reyes and went AWOL.
GSP came off a controversial decision win over Hendricks and went AWOL.
GSP and Jones were both out of their prime, with a long list of decision wins.
GSP decision wins:
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Jones decision wins:
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Bisping is a bigger striker and one of the weaker MW champions with weak grappling.
Gane is a bigger striker and never been a HW champion with extremely weak grappling.
Even the narrative is very much the same. People doubted GSP due to the long lay off and how he looked against Hendricks. People are doubting Jones due to the long lay off and how he looked against Reyes.
Will Jones choke out Gane?