GSP is back...looking for an opponent (Update pg. 3 - for real this time?)

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Post#221 » by Deviled Egg » Sat May 13, 2017 11:00 am

Jasen777 wrote:I wonder how they botched this.

It's the UFC?

I can't believe WME and IMG ponied up 4 billion to buy them.
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Re: RE: Re: GSP is back...looking for an opponent (Update pg. 3 - for real this time?) 

Post#222 » by REDDzone » Sat May 13, 2017 8:23 pm

Deviled Egg wrote:
Jasen777 wrote:I wonder how they botched this.

It's the UFC?

I can't believe WME and IMG ponied up 4 billion to buy them.


Have you been paying attention? WME are the ones who have been f*cking everything up and making a joke of the sport.
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Re: GSP is back...looking for an opponent (Update pg. 3 - for real this time?) 

Post#223 » by REDDzone » Wed May 17, 2017 2:18 pm

REDDzone wrote:Is the Bisping/Romero fight signed? I wonder if this is the UFC's last ditch effort to force GSP into accepting the fight for July or whatever their desired date.


Not to quote myself but this seems to be true, at least as of Monday according to Ariel. Nobody is Bisping or GSP's camp had been told that the fight was off and Yoel/Bisping isn't a thing. At least not as of Monday.
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Re: GSP is back...looking for an opponent (Update pg. 3 - for real this time?) 

Post#224 » by REDDzone » Wed May 17, 2017 4:31 pm

Now Bisping is saying he's too injured to fight soon anyway so the GSP timeline makes sense.

lol.
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Re: GSP is back...looking for an opponent (Update pg. 3 - for real this time?) 

Post#225 » by Jasen777 » Wed May 17, 2017 5:08 pm

REDDzone wrote:Now Bisping is saying he's too injured to fight soon anyway


I would be too if they were trying to get me to fight Romero. Of course I'm not a prizefighter, let alone one with the championship belt.
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Re: GSP is back...looking for an opponent (Update pg. 3 - for real this time?) 

Post#226 » by REDDzone » Wed May 17, 2017 5:43 pm

LOL true. I think everything on my body would start aching if someone asked me to fight Yoel.

That said, I actually think Bisping matches up stylistically pretty well with Romero. Still think Yoel donkey kongs him though.
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Post#227 » by Jasen777 » Wed May 17, 2017 6:12 pm

I don't even blame Bisping that much, like with Woodley trying to get Diaz, it's how the game is played now. I don't like it, but it's really the UFC's fault for letting things get here.
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Post#228 » by NZB2323 » Sun May 21, 2017 8:33 pm

Out of all the people to blame, it's hard for me to blame Bisping. The GSP fight is more money, more fame, and I can't really give guys **** for "ducking" guys who have failed drug tests. Like, if a fighter had a policy where he would only agree to fight guys who have never failed drug tests, I couldn't really argue with the guy.
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Re: GSP is back...looking for an opponent (Update pg. 3 - for real this time?) 

Post#229 » by lilfishi22 » Sun May 21, 2017 11:35 pm

Even if Romero had always been clean, I still wouldn't blame Bisping for wanting to wait for GSP. That's a big money pay day and he has a better chance against a smaller ring-rusted GSP than Romero.

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