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Originally Posted by Halfcan
Round 1- Hendricks had a few heavy shots but was hit something like 36 to 16 not including being kicked in the face and mid section 10 times at least.
GSP won third round by out hitting him, take downs and controlled the round.
5th round GSP took him down twice and once again out hit him. He couldn't keep him down but he was still the more active fighter. You are NOT going to take th belt from the champ by geting out struck and taken down twice in the final round no matter how much you show boat, complain, whine and dance around like your dream just came true.
GSP got cut with an elbow after he tripped himself up and johnny got him down breifly. Gsp landed nearly triple kicks, prob double the punches and was ahead by one take down.
It was a classice Thomas Hearns power VS Sugar Ray-finese- fight even though GSP landed many many hard shots.
GSP won this fight, took the best Hendricks had and was more crisp the last round.
Hendricks needs to shutup- he lost and is showing zero class.
Dana white is trying to sell tickets- he is backstabbing GSP even though the guys had been the best producer for years. White is a DBag. He was already pimping a rematch the second the RIGHT decixion came in. But that is his job.  |
and this is how GSP was given the first round. (The strikes were a heck of a lot closer than 36-16 btw, but that doesn't matter)
If you focus mostly on tallying up numbers, you may be inclined to give it to GSP, but those things are merely a tiebreaker for me. There's a reason why almost every single member of the media gave the round to Hendricks. Dana alluded to it in his rantings, but this is not really a game, this is a fight. If one guy is hurt more than the other, he should probably lose the round. If it was pretty much even then go ahead and start counting up points for the round.
GSP had several light strikes, a couple takedowns to Johny's 1, and a submission attempt, but Hendricks clearly hurt GSP, and that should have been enough to win the round.
I agree it was close, not a robbery, and Dana went overboard, but GSP should not have won the fight.