And with this............Our friendship ends.
anyone know how many people were at the weighins?
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Whoever said Nate is bigger than Rory is wrong. Rory is significantly bigger.
I guess taller means bigger now. nate has to be one of the weakest 170s out there
Rory is squating for the picture.
BTW GSP is going to crush Shields.
Yeah, Rory took a ninja stance.
lol, he really is. I think GSP is going to put him away within a few rounds. I don't think Shields will be able to close the distance on him. I was watching Shields on the countdown show, I think we will see a round of Shields shooting and missing my a mile, Demian Maia/Anderson Silva style... then GSP will poor it on and finish him off.
I really hope it is a competitive fight though. I would like to see how the grappling plays out.
My fear, is that he will smash the fuck out of Shields for a few rounds, and gets the idea in his head, that he should go out of his way to finish Sheilds to shut the haters up, and he gets subbed. If I didnt actually have a bet on him, I would say no chance it would happen, but now that My money is down, I am contemplating the what if's.
I don't see Shields as having that kind of submission game. He is a good positional grappler, but he not really what I would call a "slick" grappler. He doesn't just pull subs out of his ass, other than that guillotine choke. But with GSP's posture, I don't think he will get that on him. I mean, he couldn't sub Kampmann or Hendo, despite having them on the ground for extended periods of time. I said it before, I actually think GSP would beat him in a straight grappling match.
I think the biggest difference we're going to see here is the speed. GSP is fucking fast and Shields is slow, slow, slow.
Fuck yeah, go Grizz!
BTW speaking of slow motherfuckers, the Patriots just drafted Ryan Mallet's tortoise ass.