http://steverattlesnake.cliquezone....pavelich-on-dana-white-gsp-and-pulling-guard/ I followed DWs (UFC President Dana White) show. I watched what he did lots. When I got Jason MacDonald on their show, because I used to manage and train Jason MacDonald for years, I used to sit in the arena and watch the setup of their shows. Because theres no university to go to learn to promote mixed martial arts. I would sit there and watch how they did the lighting, watch how they did this and that. It was funny. My son was real young at that time and Dana would call him over Hey Dave, come over here and Ill show you how this works. We had a nice relationship. Youll notice when we do an interview, I dont drop the F-bomb. Just a basic fundamental of life. When youre in the professional sports business, you dont do that. Does it go through my head 47 times during an interview? Of course it does. But it doesnt come out of my mouth. Those are the little basic things. Because I know owners of sports organizations the number one thing they say is they cant believe how certain people act in our business. They think thats the reason why we cant get to that next level. Because of that type of thing. On GSP: I cant stand watching Georges St. Pierre fight. I put him in the same category as watching Scott Coker talk. God, it kills me. You know? I want to watch people like Ryan Ford fight. I want to watch people like Jon Jones fight. I want to watch Clay Guida fight. I want to watch people like Tom Watson from England who fights for the Maximum Fighting Championship. I want to watch him fight. Because I know hes going to do dirty **** to people. I know hes going to kick someone in the head. On the issue of firing anyone who pulls guard: Internet geeks dont know me. They dont know me in a personal way. The make all the stupid comments at all these places. They say these things when I say pull guard, I mean when you are standing flat footed in front of a guy and all of the sudden you jump to your back. And then you try to butt scoot around the ring trying to catch up to him. While hes still standing? Thats the kind of stuff Im talking about. If youre getting the snot beat out of you and you jump to guard, I understand that .but when I see a guy chasing another guy, butt scooting on the ground, trying to pull him into guard? If you do that in my organization, you can go to one of those shows thats going to be out of business next year.
I like Pavelich and agree with most of what he says. Especially the guard 'rule' he has. I do though disagree, like Beebs, with his comments on GSP. GSP is one of the more exciting wrestlers in the sport imo.
GSP is def a exciting wrestler but I would love to see him ko a fighter with some flashy spinning back elbow type stuff.
I do wonder if he has ever seen Miguel Torres, and what he has to say about guys butt scooting after that?
Torres doesn't fall to his ass on his own though. He will buttscoot if he gets dropped. As far as GSP, I kind of agree. GSP needs to start ending fights again. Wrestling is boring other then big slams, being an exciting wrestler isn't really saying much about excitement. As far as the business end of things, totally agree. I've been saying for years now that MMA would be bigger if a foulmouthed douchebag wasn't the face of it.
GSP does try to finish fights. He fights safe but he does try to go for the finish. He just won't go for risky finishes.
Very true, he had Hardy in many positions that other fighters would have tapped. He damn near took his arm off at one point I remember.
GSP in his last 2 fights has fought guys who are purely defensive when grappling yet he was still trying to lock on many subs. When you look at guys who are all rounders who thought they had a chance GSP ****ing battered them - Fitch, Serra and Hughes. Everyone knows how good GSP is at grappling now so everyone wants to avoid that at all costs. GSP, rightly so, plays it much safer standing since the Serra KO. GSP knows his strengths and weaknesses. He knows his opponents strengths and weakness and he'll base a strategy around them that culminate it complete and utter domination.
Didn't GSP knock Fitch's mouthpiece halfway to the moon? didn't he ram his knee into Sierra's ribs about 8 thousand times?
