@ryanawagmma.bsky.social Have you seen this?

Rewatch a few days ago and thought it was a competitive fight and winnable for Chito

I’m interested to see how Yan will approach a low volume counter puncher that’s presumably faster than him.

Probably competitive for the rounds 1-3. Who knows how it goes for 4-5.

If you wake up at 5:20 am in PST, it should be in time for the main event

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Although considered “boring” during his title reign, the Carlos Condit fight would be one of his more exciting title defences in his safety-first reign

They earn Fight of the Night honours and GSP earns his 11th UFC title fight win

The trap guard ultimately proved to be a losing strategy against GSP as Condit was unable to outwork GSP from the bottom or consistently get up

The champion landed ground n pound inside the closed guard and outside the open guard all night long

Throughout the fight, Condit’s trap guard proved to be tricky as he often limited GSP’s offence with posture breaks and continuously looked for sweep attempts

There were even instances of elbows landed

Condit’s defensive wrestling exhibited in the championship rounds was much more stubborn and persistent compared to the previous rounds

Instead of conceding them, Condit looked for switches to extend scrambles and even completed a successful reversal with one

Early in R4, the challenger was quick to build on his successes of the previous round with more high kicks

He threw them from the southpaw stance as well but GSP is able to block and evade them – takedowns becoming more and more a necessity

Recognizing the imminent danger, GSP secures his much needed takedowns for R3

Condit is briefly able to stand up with the fence as his aid but is taken down again and restrained for the rest of the round

Condit attained top control for almost a minute and his persistent ground n pound left a lasting mark on the champion

GSP is eventually able to escape and avoids becoming victim #27 of the Natural Born Killer

Early in R3, the challenger uses 2 throwaway punches to set up an elusive high kick, flooring the champion in front of his home crowd

St-Pierre never sees it coming and is forced to survive the ensuing onslaught

Although successful with his bull rushes off the cage, the champion still found the best significant strikes of R2

Condit was not deterred by this setback and was always keying in on potential openings at range

He realized more success than many previous foes, partly due to his 6’2” frame but also due to being a skilled kickboxer and some champion ring rust