I wouldn’t even want to be a training partner of a motivated GSP. I oculdn’t imagine having to keep up with one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time as he wanted to use me as his personal punching bag. Now just imagine how Nick Diaz feels: GSP is not only one of the GOATs, but he’s pissed. Seriously. You have a guy who brings his training to the most scientific of levels purely so he can hurt someone and now he’s motivated not just to win the fight via however he and his coaches deem fit, but he wants to punish Nick Diaz.
It’s intense, and I have the distinct feeling that tonight we will be seeing a bloodbath of epic proportions. Greg Jackson seems to feel this way too, he thinks an upset GSP is a very dangerous individual, but you already knew that from the headline.
“Nick Diaz as a fighter, I really like him because he’s one of those few fighters that can almost always make somebody play his game,” Jackson said. “He does it in really smart ways. He’ll back you up against the fence and basically have a shootout that he’s probably going to win. If you take him down, you’ve got to deal with some really good ground skills. If you don’t engage that, he throws his arms up. He starts trying to punk you. He tries to attack your manhood so that you get mad at him, so that you do start playing that game. He’s really smart at what he does. He’s very, very clever, but as long as you stay away from those things, as long as you control those elements, you have a good chance of winning. It’s just dealing with that really, really smart pressure that he has that makes this fight interesting.”
“Up to the fight, I’m sure [GSP] will be emotionally invested in it,” “I wouldn’t want to see Georges upset. I’ll put it that way. He’s a son of a gun even when he’s calm and rational. … I’ve worked with that guy for years, and if you got him really upset and he stays focused, that would be a very dangerous individual.”
