Georges St. Pierre Will Fight With Jake Shields At UFC 129

Posted On Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 By admin

On April 30 in Toronto, more than 40,000 fans expected to attend at the Rogers Center. UFC 129 will smash the promotion’s attendance record. You’ve been anticipating this fight for a solid five years if you’re a longtime MMA fan. Over the last half decade, no two guys have been more dominant at 170 pounds than Georges St-Pierre and Jake Shields. Four years ago the UFC champ GSP hasn’t lost a round since his upset loss to Matt Serra; Shields has won 15 straight fights. It presents a new challenge for each fighter, what makes this bout particularly interesting. Shields will be the most dangerous submission artist St-Pierre has ever faced, as one of the world’s very best Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners. Meanwhile, Shields has fought at 185 pounds before and even manhandled Dan Henderson, who usually fights at 205 pounds. St-Pierre will be the strongest pure wrestler Shields has ever faced, on the reverse. Generally, Shields dominates a fight once he takes it to the ground; he could have trouble doing so against the freakishly strong GSP. GSP studies his opponents eternally and shows up for every bout ready to fight them wherever they’re weakest. Shields’s clear weakness is in Continue Reading

UFC: Koscheck Sidelined for Six Months

Posted On Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 By admin

Josh Koscheck will be out of action from UFC for at least six months as he recovers from surgery that repaired a broken orbital suffered in his Dec. 11. In that UFC 124 bout, he lost to welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. Since losing to Georges St. Pierre in a unanimous decision at UFC 124, Josh Koscheck made his first public appearance. He said that he was beaten by Georges fair and square, although he thinks that he was unlucky in the match as he broke his eye, when he received the first punch, making the fight an uphill climb from the very start. He recovers from a broken orbital bone suffered in the loss to St. Pierre. If that was not the case, he definitely thinks that the fight would have been a lot different. On Dec. 20, he underwent surgery in Boston and he has been told by doctors to limit his physical activity to walking. During the 25-minute title affair, the American Kickboxing Academy product ate jab-after-jab and now it looks like Josh will be shelved for the better part of 2011. He said that he would build his way up to being the No. 1 contender; he Continue Reading