SDM wrote:The problem is you can't prove that he's not trying to finish fights. The other side can't prove that he is trying to finish fights, definitively, but they can prove that it sure looks like he's trying to finish fights, hence the sub attempts on Hardy and the killshot gifs against Kos (that he took like a champ). When someone posts gifs of GSP throwing everything he has into some punches, you snap back about how it's only four times (though it was much more than that... 32 power strikes landed and nearly 30% of his landed strikes were power strikes, according to FIghtMetric).
I mean, how can you not see that he's *trying* to finish fights when his opponents all have the tar beaten out of them. It sounds like you're a little ticked that his fights aren't as competitive as some fights other P4P fighters have and instead of praising Hardy's sub defense or Kos' heart and conditioning or acknowledging injury in the Alves fight, you condemn the other guy for not finishing these supposed cans. Just so you know, Alves/Hardy/Kos have been finished ten times in 76 fights. Hardy hadn't been finished in five years, Alves in three and a half. No one's finishing these guys, but GSP is deeeeestroying them.
Exactly.
But it doesn't matter what proof you do bring up, it'll be brushed off as irrelevant. We're all wasting our times trying to prove what won't be acknowledged.
