People here will say Machida due to his last fight but in my opinion. GSP's skill set is as good as Machida's but not that ''spectacular''. I mean, GSP's wrestling is as good as Machida's Karate. And Anderson Silva is no douche either with his very good MT. Its hard to compare GSP with those two brazilians because its different. But Machida is more skilled than Silva standing wise in my opinion.
I agree with most of your sentiments. I think GSP is the most offensively gifted of the three, while Silva and Machida are more masterful technicians, who look to pounce on your mistakes. Not sure if I agree with "Machida is more skilled than Silva standing" though.. Silva is still the deadliest striker in the game to me, despite his last two underwhelming performances against Cote and Leites.
Yeah, but I don't know, I feel that Machida would play with Silva but I might be wrong. The best technician out of these three is definatly Machida.
I still can't forget the way Silva took the fight out of Franklin and spread his nose across his face. For me it still ranks as the most perfect display of striking with accuracy and bad intentions. Everything he landed was with vicious power and all the shots looked gorgeous. It was like JMM throwing a perfect, hard combo in boxing. It was the type of striking that makes hardcore boxing fans go WOW. Nothing Machida or GSP have done have matched the beauty and violence of this fight imo. It's hard to say who is the most complete fighter though really. Aderson has displayed the best strikeing imo. GSP has displayed the best ground game. Maybe Machida is the most well rounded though even though i think Silva is the best? :huh: I just love Silva when he comes to really hurt people. Nobody can finish like him with the combo of accuracy and power.
For me, Shogun's performance over Rampage is better than Anderson over Franklin, in my opinion. The first Franklin-Silva fight, was brutal though(well the second also lol)
Nice to see people not getting all over LMs balls. GSP definitely has the more well rounded yet excellent in all skill set out of all the people mentioned.
I just loved the sickened look on Franklins face when that knee spread his nose. Rich looked like his dinner was going to pop up. It really was a deadly accurate and sickening beating. :dead
Machida has dominated most of his opponents. This guy has wins over rich franklin-stephan bonnar-bj penn-tito ortiz-thiago silva and rashad evans. He made it look easy his last couple of fights. I mean nobody has ever dominated tito ortiz the way he did.
i would have to rate gsp as having the best overall skill set, the other two are about even I would rate machida as having the best ring management
I think it goes GSP, Machida, then Silva GSP - most well rounded very good stand-up, great wrestling, great subs. Machida - great stand-up, awareness, instincts, great TD defense 88%? Silva - Great stand-up, good subs, lost his edge and killer instinct, I think he is WAY TOO cautious and is afraid of losing so he won't take any chances.