2006 Cro Cop vs. 2006 GSP

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sparkuri

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Cro Cop was a beast, sure, but GSP was on another level.
Cro Cop had a nice stiff jab and a couple overly-exaggerated leg kicks(to my knowledge, no one EVER went to the cemetary), but he fell short when pressure was applied(Noguera, Fedor, Berry, Gonzaga, Mir).
GSP was KNOWN for pressure.

GSP by head kick, 57 seconds.
 

Ninja

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Trying to remember what year Cop left Japan and started looking slow and squishy...
 

Sheepdog

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Agreed. GSP outwrestled Jake Shields, who outwrestled Dan Henderson, who beat Big Nog and Fedor, who outwrestled Cro Cop.

I mean GSP outwrestled Bisping, who had the advantage of having a glass eye to deflect punches with and the prime athleticism of a 38-year-old man.

I mean, GSP didn't outwrestle Bisping nearly as easily as my man Tim Kennedy did, but Kennedy wrestled a little in college. Clearly a 38-year-old, one-eyed Bisping, who grew up wrestling against the world-dominating killers of the UK wrestling scene, is still the greatest defensive MW wrestler of all time though.

GSP's single 185 fight tells us everything we need to know, with absolutely no questions remaining unanswered, that he would beat the fuck out of any guy regularly fighting 2+ weight classes above him.
 

La Paix

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PRIDE rules or UFC? If GSP can knee downed opponents in the head then that's an important piece of info.
 

sparkuri

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GSP all day, Cro Cop won't catch him
Exactly.
Cro Cop didn't have the fast-twitch muscle memory needed to catch GSP.
And his ground game suuuuuucked.
I'm not sure how he accomplished what he did
*cough*fixed*cough*fights*cough*
 

Mad Dog

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CroCop was too big and strong for little GSP. CroCop would have hurt him with punches and stopped him. CroCop was hard to take down.