So I called Carwin v. Mir exact. I can see Carwin and Lesnar being the cause of a tsunami soon. I think Shane will emerge victorious!
GSP v Hardy was disappointing. GSP used his superior wrestling to keep Hardy on the ground - a tactic that was necessary to maintain the belt and very expected...Unfortuantely, GSP wasn't able to demonstrate any real BJJ skill.
Both the armbar and the kimura that GSP attempted seemed to be lacking in technical skill. It looked like GSPS was trying to muscle Hardy into submission. I am sure that GSP knows the correct technique for both of those moves - I think that he sucumbed to emotion as he tried to finish Dan off.
I feel that GSP was so scared of a Serra repeat and of losing his belt that he tried to play it safe with a lay and pray groundgame that culminated in two sub-par submission attempts done within a frenzied mindset of fear that he might lose to a kid with a mowhawk.
GSP kept his belt at the end of the night but he may have lost some fans. To me, a real victory for GSP, one where he could have come out with his head held high, would have happened IF he had decided to stand and bang - regardless of who left with the belt.
Some champs get "keep the belt" syndrome...Anderson did for awhile. Some guys see the belt as secondary to an intangible glory - testing oneself aganist the best that another man has to offer. BJ Penn and Fedor come to mind.
I hope that the next time we see GSP he will have learned a strong lesson from this lackluster performance about what make a champion a champion - and it isn't a title belt.
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