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I'm in no way under-estimating Penn, it's a 50/50 chance...Penn is one hard motherfucker...he lost a questionable decision to Ryoto Machida, in a fucking heavyweight fight. I saw that fight, and that was a draw at best for Machida, and Machida has stopped Franklin and Bonnar at 205.
Also he handled Gomi with ease a few years back, I mean he left Gomi a bloody mess, and absolutely dominated him all over the place, standing, ground, submissions...everying. And there's the obvious assraping of Matt Hughes, where he made Hughes look like he should be fighting prelims for the ufc nevermind being their welterweight champion.
But St. Pierre is a dominant force...sure he lost to Hughes, but he's gotten about a billion times better since then, and in that fight he was dominating until Hughes got lucky. It is really intriguing, and I think both guys should be very weary of both men's abilities to end a fight. Look at St. Pierre's last 3 fights as well; absolute dominance of that Mayhem Miller guy, which you could tell Georges was half asleep for. He then proceeded to make Frank Trigg look like he's never trained for a fight in his life, and dominated him more than Matt Hughes ever did. Lastly there was his fight with Sean Sherk, who is no slouch either, and George absolute made mincemeat out of him. You could hear Sherk groan when Georges broke his nose.
These are two extremely, extremely bad dudes going up against one another. It is a 50/50 chance for either, but I'm going to go with Georges, just because I want him to win, to represent Canada, plus I want guys to come over from Japan to fight St. Pierre, for some new exciting Welterweight fights. If Penn wins and beats Hughes, we're basically in the same situation we were a few years back.
Mind you I am a new MMA fan, but with the power of Google video and Youtube, as well as UFC Unleashed, I know my shit and have seen A LOT of fights.
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