Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32831664-20171030222326/@comment-108.63.11.114-20171102184642

I have been a GSP fan since his TKO days (I know I am getting old) but being Canadian I followed TKO and some smaller promotions up here.

There is so much unknown, the GSP on paper 5 years ago beats even a bigger Bisping, (check out Chael's comments on GSP's wrestling and strength (and thats coming from an Olympic calibre bigger guy).  The Canadian Olympic team also claimed Georges was taking down Heavies no problem when he trained with them and at that ttime there was serious talk about trying out for the Olympics..............and Georges is not the maul-you-down-to-the-ground wreslter, he is the explosive well-timed slam-you-down-to the-ground wreslter which is much harder to stop hence his legendary TD #'s

In those past 5 years, Bisping has gotten much better, rarely is a fighter better at 38 years old but I believe Mike has advanced his skills every year and maintains great conditioning so he is more dangerous than ever even if he has had a "light" workload as champ. His TD defense is very good and scramble back up even better but nobody has stopped GSP TD's for an entire fight - ever. Also see Tim Kennedy's strategy of keeping Bisping in the center, take him away from the cage and he is alot less effective scrambling back up (as pointed out by Chael).

The rumours are GSP has (sort of secretly) been highly focussed on training kicks the last couple of years. I say sort of becasue he does still do some training at TriStar but there he has also revealed he has been spending much more training time at his "private" gym and this would support the rumours he may have been working different techniques into his game and kind of sheds light on why he wants to come back.

Soooo......I do believe GSP is 100% being honest when he says he will be a different more agressive striking version, he has said in interview he sees himself as the challenger like when he was a finisher in his early days. Not saying it will be successful now but I believe he thinks he has evovled his game to a higher level and wants to test out now that the playing field is fairer with true drug testing. Even he is not sure how he will fair in the new UFC.........

With that said, I think we are going to see an "all-out" GSP. He is going to try out his evolved style and he is either going to finish Bisp or get KO'd which is exciting to me. I dont think even GSP is interested in being the keep-my-belt wrestler version anymore so he either wins dramatically or goes out on his shield and this is why he is suggesting the one-loss and retire stupulation, if he cannot beat bisping with his new approach he is done.

And I do think Bisping can be a classless SOB but he has paid his dues and deserves a big payday for his service and he also aided the brand's growth in Britain so about time he gets some coin.

P.S. Anyone remember "Bisping's Island" - I still laugh evrytime I think of it .........

CanadianOracle