They say the newer generations of champions are almost always better, but when you look at St Pierre, especially the takedown defense when he was in his early 20's, these are some all time best of the best mma abilities.
The new generation isn't always better I don't know why people say that. It's only certain fighters from newer generations that are better. Otherwise the lowest ranked WW would beat GSP
Bas Rutten, GSP, Anderson Silva, Prime Fedor would all crush in todays MMA still. Fedor especially was the most scary fighter I've ever seen. I would argue there far more DEPTH in the 2000s MMA era. Tons of great fighters who weren't well known due to no social media back then.
@@luffyblackbeard4215 Being a huge Usman fan, I can't completely be sure about it, it's basically a 50-50, Usman has real good one punch power but his striking game is really amateur, tho he is improving in every fight. GSP also really good wrestling even tho he wasn't a wrestler. Not saying he will out wrestle Usman (cause that's not possible) but if GSP keeps on with the precise or creative striking he wins by decision.
@@luffyblackbeard4215 usman got his game from gsp. Gsp is usman father, lets see if usman can go 9 titles defenses and two divisions champion you casual
The nastiest trashtalk he ever dished out, and he openly admited that he regretted saying that as it was disrespectful but he was pushed to sell a rematch.
@@sebastienquirion3257 to be honest, I would also feel something break in me when the nicest fighter of the UFC says that he's not impressed by my performance 😆 I'd probably take it to heart more than any other roast
This was single handedly the greatest moment for me as a UFC Fan. I didn't think George could do it after recovering from a pulled hamstring but he pulled it off and it was a dominant performance. P.S GSP I am impressed "by" your performance brother!!
@@Inspire-2030 he was supposed to fight Matt earlier in the year but pulled his hammy... BJ Penn stepped in and Hughes beat Penn.. then they had this fight in November.
@@2kmichaeljordan438 back then it was just Saddam and Osama. Now they’re hundreds of boogie men. Simpler times dude, even if at the time it didn’t seem it.
Kamaru may not be dynamic but he beats everyone placed before him. There is a reason he has now broken GSP record for most wins in that division. Kamaru is the G.O.A.T, especially if he gets one more win again.
@@REAL_PFO I disagree purely because Kamaru has beaten a lot of nobodies. Almost all of GSP's wins came from #1 contenders. It's easy to beat up on tomato cans, but can you beat the best guy every time they're put in front of you for nearly a decade? That's what makes GSP the best. He beat the best every time, for longer than almost anyone else, in the 2nd most stacked division in the history of the promotion.
... and Matt Hughes was known for his incredible takedowns ... and had that crazy farm boy strength. Incredible athleticism and sense of balance by GSP.
What's even crazier is that this was GSP's 14th ever fight in MMA, to put that into perspective, in Khabib's 14th fight he fought a random guy making his debut on the regional scene at 0-0, whilst Khabib was 13-0
The people from Russia don't always have the opportunities to go into the big leagues that soon. I feel like this comparison is unwarranted. There are plenty of people khabib fought before that with better records yet you pointed out the only debutant.
@@1994mrmysteryman it wasnt the only debutant actually there were a few guys making their debut that he fought, and more guys with 0 wins but many losses, I made this comparison because this was GSP's 14th fight, I actually did the complete opposite of picking and choosing from his record. Also who are these guys with the better records? the 28-22 guy he fought to go 15-0? or the 13-9 guy he fought to go 13-0? Khabib was a beast in the UFC but the truth is, if every fighter had their first 15 fights handed to them as free wins whilst they improved their game, they would all be undefeated. Another example of a 14th fight, Tony Ferguson beating Yves Edwards.
@@the-mma-guru woah woah. What's wrong with 13-9 and 28-22? Do you know of Nate Diaz record? Mark Hunt? Jeremy Stephens? How can you so quickly dismiss fighters because their records are not the most appealing?
@@1994mrmysteryman Because Nate Diaz, Jeremy Stephens and Nate Diaz's records are the way they are due to losing to names like Benson Henderson, Max Holloway, Jose Aldo, Stipe Miocic, Alistair Overeem, Leon Edwards and many more at the very highest level of MMA. Khabib's opponents with bad records came from losing to part time plumbers. LOL, I got you dude, you just cant concede HAHAHAHAHA
GSP is the greatest of all time! It's not even disputable... Never wrestled in college but was able to out grapple some of the best wrestlers in his division which is nuts! He could do it all and was able to dictate where the fight was going. Most well rounded in UFC history and a class act 😎
Definitely not the GOAT and Definitely not the most well rounded. Mighty mouse and jones are far more rounded. Jones has far more creative e striking than gsp could ever. Gsp didn't even know how to throw a proper spinning back kick till Joe roman showed him 😂. We all know how deadly jones is with creative shots while being much bigger and taller than GSP. And in the wrestling department jones is arguably the most incredible wrestler to ever fight in ufc.
Yes he improved so much, specially his diet full of steroids and learned a lot from the first fight, grease all his back, pretending to breath with his corner, meanwhile his greasing up between rounds so he can slippery 😊
What a masterful performance by the GOAT. Kept chopping Hughes' legs with low calf kicks while keeping him engaged with 1-2s then switched up in the second round and caught him flush with a left high kick while tricking Hughes into thinking he was going for another calf kick. GSP was truly way ahead of his time
In many ways actually, clean cut, white meat babyface, technically the best of his era, a monster of a draw in Canada and the face of the company just before the boom of MMA. He's one of the biggest reasons, UFC was able to survive and thrive in the early to mid 00s (like Bret was to WWE in the early to mid 90s).
"Tonight the future has become the present." - Goldie GSP was always evolving 1 step ahead of his competition. He'd still do great if he was entering MMA in a more recent time
Watching him avenge his losses is super sweet, he just completely erases any doubt that he isn’t superior. It’s also nice watching how he responds and just very overall killing machine on those nights. True legend.
GSP fought in 2006 how fighters today try to fight or do fight. Just watching GSP 17 years later and fighters today. He is still great technique by 2023 MMA standards.
A lot of ppl don't remember how huge this victory was. Matt Hughes was pretty much kamaru Usman, with worse stand-up but insane grappling and ground and pound. Dude seemed invincible in his day and GSP was just on the warpath.
Hughes just had no answer to anything GSP threw at him. After he got stuffed on the takedown Hughes must’ve known he was gonna lose. He probably was just hoping to get to a decision and not get finished
GSP is our legend here in the province of Quebec!! He made us and still make us being proud of being french! What an amazing fighter and such a gentleman!
I saw this fight. There were many unintentional low blows, but GSP apologized for that. After defeating Matt Hughes, he had nothing but respect for him. He hugs him and promised him that he would give him a rematch and they would fight again. GSP kept his promise and won the Trilogy. He is such a class act
It’s pretty sad that at 33, Matt Hughes was on the end of his career. Conor McGregor is now the same age. Back then though, the average career was only about 6-8 years.
GSP had the tools a modern day fighter does and then some. His jab was perfect, his kicks were perfect, his timing on his blast double is maybe the best ever (and for someone who didn’t wrestle 🤯). Beat every man he ever fought. The GOAT.
Man I really miss Mike Goldberg's voice and commentary. I can't fathom why they got rid of him. Regardless of lack of fighting knowledge he's a wonderful and exciting broadcaster.
Yoo, this just made me realize I been watching this since I turned 7. Crazy I remember back when they used to have the rerun on google video and I would act like I closed the laptop screen when she walked by. Nuts!
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Dana saying Usman is the greatest welterweight of all time..... The disrespect to GSP is crazy. The Greatest Welterweight and The Greatest Of All Time
GSP isn't the greatest of all time, just the greatest WW.
@@H.K.5 he’s got the strongest argument for goat, Jones is up there but his ped usage holds him back
George didnt wanna do a come back fight for him most likely… for a low end pay prolly?
Dana is just trying to attract attention. Don’t take what he says seriously
Dana always hated gsp
They say the newer generations of champions are almost always better, but when you look at St Pierre, especially the takedown defense when he was in his early 20's, these are some all time best of the best mma abilities.
The new generation isn't always better I don't know why people say that. It's only certain fighters from newer generations that are better. Otherwise the lowest ranked WW would beat GSP
Lol no
@@rafayg7376 I'm talking about the champions, gotta edit that.
Ahead of curve so much that they copied his training techniques
Bas Rutten, GSP, Anderson Silva, Prime Fedor would all crush in todays MMA still. Fedor especially was the most scary fighter I've ever seen. I would argue there far more DEPTH in the 2000s MMA era. Tons of great fighters who weren't well known due to no social media back then.
Greatest welterweight of all time
Naaa Greatest Ufc fighter of a ll time
Usman would trash this dude
@@luffyblackbeard4215 ok bud
@@luffyblackbeard4215 Being a huge Usman fan, I can't completely be sure about it, it's basically a 50-50, Usman has real good one punch power but his striking game is really amateur, tho he is improving in every fight. GSP also really good wrestling even tho he wasn't a wrestler. Not saying he will out wrestle Usman (cause that's not possible) but if GSP keeps on with the precise or creative striking he wins by decision.
@@luffyblackbeard4215 usman got his game from gsp. Gsp is usman father, lets see if usman can go 9 titles defenses and two divisions champion you casual
This was the result of George’s infamous *“I’m not impressed by your performance”* ... He was not lying
The nastiest trashtalk he ever dished out, and he openly admited that he regretted saying that as it was disrespectful but he was pushed to sell a rematch.
@@sebastienquirion3257 to be honest, I would also feel something break in me when the nicest fighter of the UFC says that he's not impressed by my performance 😆
I'd probably take it to heart more than any other roast
@@remyhavoc4463 - actually Hughes laughed, I think.
Ladies and gentlemen prime GSP right here...best mixed martial artist ever walked on earth. Striking, wrestling, fight IQ he had it all
Johnny hendrixs
@@gavriloprincip6892 Johnny Hendricks but how many years later? Regardless of that though Hendricks should have gotten his rematch
@@gavriloprincip6892 Hendrix was a drug cheat please do not compare him to the great GSP
I feel like Jon is better at his peak but GSP is such a great person while Jon is a dirt bag outside of the cage so they won’t admit it
Bang on my friend. The champ champ, the GOAT GOAT. In his prime and in that era, unstoppable.....period.
This was single handedly the greatest moment for me as a UFC Fan. I didn't think George could do it after recovering from a pulled hamstring but he pulled it off and it was a dominant performance. P.S GSP I am impressed "by" your performance brother!!
Ha, “pulled hamstring but he *pulled* it off”
Wasn't that fight the thiago alvez fight
@@Inspire-2030 he was supposed to fight Matt earlier in the year but pulled his hammy... BJ Penn stepped in and Hughes beat Penn.. then they had this fight in November.
@@RickyJSports ah ok
Not the biggest fan of your content but I've rarely seen someone speak more truth
Hughe's smiling in the first round like "fuck me, there's no way I'm going to win this fight"
Hughes was a sitting duck just getting fired on. No chance.
Passing the torch.
Right? That's how I saw it. He was like, "Fuck, this guy is good." haha.
Nostalgic! I was a sophmore in highschool when this fight happened. GSP winning with Goldie and Randy commentating brings me back to a simpler time :)
Those really were simpler times man. World has become too complicated since then. Everything now looks in a hurry.
@@lovenature904 everyone complicates everything now. Gender, crime, race, etc. it’s all gone to shit
@@2kmichaeljordan438 Blame Twitter. It is a trash heap of a website.
And "Stitch" Duran with some of the best cutman skills in the business.
@@2kmichaeljordan438 back then it was just Saddam and Osama. Now they’re hundreds of boogie men. Simpler times dude, even if at the time it didn’t seem it.
As good as Kamaru is, he is a long way from being as dynamic and having the fight IQ of GSP.
This man is the true WW GOAT.
George is the greatest.. but Kamaru is easily the best.
Kamaru may not be dynamic but he beats everyone placed before him. There is a reason he has now broken GSP record for most wins in that division. Kamaru is the G.O.A.T, especially if he gets one more win again.
@@REAL_PFO I disagree purely because Kamaru has beaten a lot of nobodies. Almost all of GSP's wins came from #1 contenders. It's easy to beat up on tomato cans, but can you beat the best guy every time they're put in front of you for nearly a decade? That's what makes GSP the best. He beat the best every time, for longer than almost anyone else, in the 2nd most stacked division in the history of the promotion.
@@REAL_PFO If Kamaru was white, you wouldn't care about him or post that comment..
@@jayluis189 Race baiting looks bad on you.
1:05-1:15 Might very well be the greatest scramble/take down defense I've ever seen. This dude was straight up OP.
... and Matt Hughes was known for his incredible takedowns ... and had that crazy farm boy strength. Incredible athleticism and sense of balance by GSP.
Matt knew he was fucked after that sequence lol
Yea he straight up went amphibian
Ive never seen anything like this he is straight up the fucking goat,all his dynamics too everything is perfect
@@gootz2480 yea bro he went straight up flying squirrel during that. Super OP
George is the perfect exemple of what a true champion is. A true lover of the sport and respectful to every single one of is opponent!! The true GOAT
What's even crazier is that this was GSP's 14th ever fight in MMA, to put that into perspective, in Khabib's 14th fight he fought a random guy making his debut on the regional scene at 0-0, whilst Khabib was 13-0
The people from Russia don't always have the opportunities to go into the big leagues that soon. I feel like this comparison is unwarranted. There are plenty of people khabib fought before that with better records yet you pointed out the only debutant.
@@1994mrmysteryman it wasnt the only debutant actually there were a few guys making their debut that he fought, and more guys with 0 wins but many losses, I made this comparison because this was GSP's 14th fight, I actually did the complete opposite of picking and choosing from his record.
Also who are these guys with the better records? the 28-22 guy he fought to go 15-0? or the 13-9 guy he fought to go 13-0?
Khabib was a beast in the UFC but the truth is, if every fighter had their first 15 fights handed to them as free wins whilst they improved their game, they would all be undefeated.
Another example of a 14th fight, Tony Ferguson beating Yves Edwards.
@@the-mma-guru woah woah. What's wrong with 13-9 and 28-22?
Do you know of Nate Diaz record? Mark Hunt? Jeremy Stephens?
How can you so quickly dismiss fighters because their records are not the most appealing?
@@1994mrmysteryman all those guys you named suck, same with masvidal
@@1994mrmysteryman Because Nate Diaz, Jeremy Stephens and Nate Diaz's records are the way they are due to losing to names like Benson Henderson, Max Holloway, Jose Aldo, Stipe Miocic, Alistair Overeem, Leon Edwards and many more at the very highest level of MMA.
Khabib's opponents with bad records came from losing to part time plumbers.
LOL, I got you dude, you just cant concede HAHAHAHAHA
That head kick that led to the ending sequence was vicious. Matt a beast for not just getting starched right there.
GSP is the greatest of all time! It's not even disputable... Never wrestled in college but was able to out grapple some of the best wrestlers in his division which is nuts! He could do it all and was able to dictate where the fight was going. Most well rounded in UFC history and a class act 😎
Definitely not the GOAT and Definitely not the most well rounded. Mighty mouse and jones are far more rounded. Jones has far more creative e striking than gsp could ever. Gsp didn't even know how to throw a proper spinning back kick till Joe roman showed him 😂. We all know how deadly jones is with creative shots while being much bigger and taller than GSP. And in the wrestling department jones is arguably the most incredible wrestler to ever fight in ufc.
Kamaru is one of the best ever no doubt! But Gsp is forever the Welterweight GOAT🐐
If Kamaru beats Khamzat, Leon and some other elite fighter idk
@@CT-yr8ph about that
@@amadorluis2008 I mean he still can just had to get the rematch
@@CT-yr8phabout that
@@CT-yr8ph 😂 nah Kamaru the tomato can slayer fell off.
Dana is a clown for saying Usman > GSP!!!
he knows in himself that its just pure BS 😂
Casuals: you need to trash talk to make it to the top of the UFC, there's no place for nice guys
GSP: hold my maple syrup
Greatest welterweight of all time!
You could tell how much GSP improved compared to when they first fought.
He was piecing him up in the first fight too until he got caught.
@@AndyKaps right. GSP was actually up on the first round but mistakes happened. and Georges learned a lot from that loss.
Yes he improved so much, specially his diet full of steroids and learned a lot from the first fight, grease all his back, pretending to breath with his corner, meanwhile his greasing up between rounds so he can slippery 😊
The greatest performance by the greatest fighter of all time. No man on earth would have beat him that night
Khabib would have.
@@DM-or3no No
@@DM-or3noall the respect in the world to Khabib but if Matt Hughes wasn't landing a take down, you weren't going down.
GSP was definitely not impressed by his performance
GSP is the greatest. Look at who he fought. Simply the best.
Greatest of all time!!!!
GSP will always be the best ever
Prime GSP. Looking to avenge, in perfect shape, totally focused. A masterclass.
Brilliant , I remember like it was yesterday , greatest champion ever 🤙
This is one of the reasons why saying that Khabib was the goat when he retired was so disrespectful. GSP was a beast!!
What a masterful performance by the GOAT. Kept chopping Hughes' legs with low calf kicks while keeping him engaged with 1-2s then switched up in the second round and caught him flush with a left high kick while tricking Hughes into thinking he was going for another calf kick. GSP was truly way ahead of his time
GSP is the Bret Hart of MMA. “Best there ever will be.”
In many ways actually, clean cut, white meat babyface, technically the best of his era, a monster of a draw in Canada and the face of the company just before the boom of MMA. He's one of the biggest reasons, UFC was able to survive and thrive in the early to mid 00s (like Bret was to WWE in the early to mid 90s).
Both Canadian as well :)
Melhor de todos os tempos. Exemplo de atleta.
Look at his flexibility, his endurance, and just overall versatility. Definitely top 3 fighters to ever step foot in a cage.
Yeah, I agree.
I find it hard to believe a prime usman can beat a prime GSP
You think correctly
He's better than Usman in all aspects of the game!
That's because he can't. GSP's got better striking and BJJ than Usman and his wrestling is second to none.
This is one of the best UFC fights of all time 👍
"Tonight the future has become the present." - Goldie
GSP was always evolving 1 step ahead of his competition. He'd still do great if he was entering MMA in a more recent time
Perfectly headkick by GSP
Watching him avenge his losses is super sweet, he just completely erases any doubt that he isn’t superior. It’s also nice watching how he responds and just very overall killing machine on those nights. True legend.
The Goat
GSP fought in 2006 how fighters today try to fight or do fight. Just watching GSP 17 years later and fighters today. He is still great technique by 2023 MMA standards.
Don’t care what anyone says GSP is the greatest of all time in my eyes
Hughes too busy trying to get his legs to work to notice GSP’s foot coming at him. Those leg kicks set this up beautifully
Prime GSP would wreck Usman
A lot of ppl don't remember how huge this victory was. Matt Hughes was pretty much kamaru Usman, with worse stand-up but insane grappling and ground and pound. Dude seemed invincible in his day and GSP was just on the warpath.
Fun fact : khabum refused to fight a 40 year old gsp at 170
truth :P
"Tonight, the future has become the present".
"I'm not impressed with your performance"
So he had to have a rematch to impress himself.
The Greatest of All Time and it's not even close.
Ufc upload gsp vs bisping full match
I hope Matt Hughes is doing OK and knows he has plenty of fans worldwide who care and wish him nothing but The Best.
He's been in quite a bit of trouble since his retirement. CTE.
Matt Hughes a legend! Changing of the gaurd 🙌
Hughes just had no answer to anything GSP threw at him. After he got stuffed on the takedown Hughes must’ve known he was gonna lose. He probably was just hoping to get to a decision and not get finished
GSP favorite fighter hands down!
GSP was the first martial artist we got to see in the ufc
GSP GOAT 🐐
Around 1:15 you could see on Hughes' face, be knew GSP was better. Once GSP got confidence in his abilities, it was over...
that defense scramble was insane. Props to Matt for checking the knee from GSP even if Gsp got the speed advantage.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
I could never pick between these two, loved watching them fight back then. UFC was golden back then
A classy GOAT who innovated. GSP's best weapon was his ability to dictate where the fight goes. Standing or on the ground.
Legends of the sport. Love GSP and Matt Hughes.
GSP is our legend here in the province of Quebec!! He made us and still make us being proud of being french! What an amazing fighter and such a gentleman!
GSP MY FOREVER HERO..
The GOAT
0:05 that crack voice had me dying
He is one of if not the best pound for pound UFC fighter ever. Him vs Silva would have been epic.
Beautiful work! That's quality my friends!!
Had to comment just to say God bless you Matt Hughes. (And GSP) After Matt Hughes train accident it breaks my heart to see him the way he is now
@anothaview He has most definitely come a long way. I've shed a few tears for him. Hurt like seeing a brother.
Big john was going to stop it, but that horn saved his ass well, at least for the time being 😂
GSP is the GOAT!!!!
we missed the window prime GSP vs. prime T-Wood, 2 WW champs 🐐🙏
Da fuq? Prime GSP trounces prime Woodley.
That Ed sheeran ad pissing me tf off
GSP My all time hero
Matt smiling cuz he knows he’s getting just outclassed in every aspect of this fight. Dominant performance by the WW GOAT.!
One of the greatest ufc fights of all time
I saw this fight. There were many unintentional low blows, but GSP apologized for that. After defeating Matt Hughes, he had nothing but respect for him. He hugs him and promised him that he would give him a rematch and they would fight again. GSP kept his promise and won the Trilogy. He is such a class act
It’s a shame we never saw a prime Silva vs Prime GSP
Gsp didn't want part
It’s pretty sad that at 33, Matt Hughes was on the end of his career. Conor McGregor is now the same age. Back then though, the average career was only about 6-8 years.
So sharp, so accurate, so dynamic, so technically proficient.
A most excellent performance by GSP,
very satisfying to see him dethrone Matt Hughes.
GreaseSP was a slippery monster.
GSP had the tools a modern day fighter does and then some. His jab was perfect, his kicks were perfect, his timing on his blast double is maybe the best ever (and for someone who didn’t wrestle 🤯). Beat every man he ever fought. The GOAT.
GSP is my hero 😮
Claim your “here within an hour” ticket here🔥
Here within a minute.
Sup
Man I really miss Mike Goldberg's voice and commentary. I can't fathom why they got rid of him. Regardless of lack of fighting knowledge he's a wonderful and exciting broadcaster.
The undisputed GOAT of GOAT's....Way ahead of his era....set the bar for all future mma fighters.
GSP says I'm not impressed with your performance
What a guy, George is on of the greatest UFC has seen 👀💯🐐 🐐🙌🙌
Beautiful!! MMA aforetime were special . Im not comparing with today
GSP looked like a LW here in today’s massive weight cutting era
Great to see old fights I’ve heard about but never seen.
Yoo, this just made me realize I been watching this since I turned 7. Crazy I remember back when they used to have the rerun on google video and I would act like I closed the laptop screen when she walked by. Nuts!
Both were great fighters 💪
Greatest of all time
Sad to see Matt not step in the octagon again after the train accident he really would have been champ for sure hope one day he fully recovers 🙏
I think it’s awesome GSP never gets mentioned with PEDs
Both my favorite fighters! Awesome to see
Watched this live. GSP became my all time favorite that night!!!👍🏼👍🏼
Pls can u post the carlos condit vs gsp fight?
You can hear him say : you're a great fighter you can have a rematch in the last seconds of the video, what a champ
When your Idol is the announcer, and he is impressed.
Watching the first fight, and then this is better than most movies. Only thing missing is the training montage
The true GOAT of the WW division.
GSP was levels above everyone else at that time, the same way Khabib was levels above his competition.
Yeag but khahib was afraid to go to welterweight he was fighting smallrr guys