BJ's Downfall: Ego!

Hmm…seems to me BJ’s training camp has been fine the last 3 fights where he literally ran right through all 3 opponents. Why must we questions those methods now?

Fact of the matter is, he ran into a bigger, stronger, faster fighter last night and couldn’t do anything against him.

That’s really all there is to it. I seriously doubt changing training camps would have altered those results.

It was the same as when he was coach during Ultimate Fighter. In his “Island-style” training, he spends more time sitting on his ass talking crap in the gym and throwing shakas to adoring islanders than throwing punches. BJ is sparring with Troy Mandaloniz who couldn’t win a fight during TUF and GSP is rolling with Rashad Evans. You’re the king of Hilo BJ, go speedwalk for another shaved ice so you can move up another weight class. Really look at the last three. Pulver has proven to be over the hill, BJ was gassed with Stevenson and Sherk had idiotic strategy and abandoned any shots and tried to trade with BJ with his midget arms. He was opened mouthed breathing in all three. As a fan of BJs prodigal potential, it is sad to see.

Sherk bought the hype that bj couldn’t be taken down. Sherk decided instead to have a boxing match with BJ. Dumb plan. Unless BJ does something drastic to take himself to the next level, e.g., move to a real camp, his days are numbered as LW champ. GSP just gave all the LW’s the blue print for beating Penn.

It’s kinda funny how GSP fans are still defensive after people say anything besides “GSP’s superior fighting style destroyed him and he had no choice but be destroyed because GSP is just way better”.

The fact is, a lot of GSP’s strength comes from his lack of ego. He’s so down to earth, he thus takes nothing for granted, respects his opponents, and thus trains harder. He doesn’t look at himself as God’s gift to fighting, he looks at himself as always needing to improve and extend himself. If he had a huge ego it wouldn’t be possible to think this.

Bj’s case is a good example of premium talent that was capped by his own ego. This led to inferior training, lack of self-honesty, and a poorer performance in the fight. After watching that fight, you see nothing but upside for GSP, and a limit on what BJ is capable of.

So don’t worry everybody, GSP won because of two reasons, he was the better fighter, partly because his ego was smaller than BJ’s.