Georges St-Pierre Talks About Adding More Muscle Mass at 170

Alves is just a bull at 170, and is super thick, but many of those other guys are both bigger and taller than GSP – guys like Fitch, Hardy, and Johnson are all 6ft tall or taller.

We’ll see how GSP looks in training with the 8 extra lbs of muscle once the UFC Primetime shows air in about 3 weeks. It seems like a good idea, as long as he can keep his speed and cardio.

He’s gotta gain some weight for the potential super fight with Anderson Silva. I noticed that he looked alot bigger in his last fight with Matt Hughes then his first two. His back looked alot wider and he was tossing Hughes around like a rag doll.

Anderson Silva is a slender, not particularly imposing MW. I doubt he is far above 185 at fight time. And when he went up to LHW he looked even smaller. In the griffin fight he looked like a WW against a LHW. BJ Penn always had to struggle to get to 170 and was always smaller than his opponents. I think this weight business is overrated. And its making fighters like Johnson do some terrible cutting and affecting performance. I think by the time you cut 50lbs in a month it negates whatever advantage you think you had by going in the lower class.

Wasn’t the point of having weight classes to allow fighters of two equal sizes to see who is the better man. Seems like that point was lost with fighters trying to take advantage of the system.

Although I agree it’s a good idea, other things equal, for GSP to get bigger and stronger, it isn’t as though he needs that additional weight to clean out the MW division.

His MMA wrestling is already good enough to outwrestle everyone at MW (which, in all of MMA, appears to have exactly one good MMA wrestler and Im not talking about Hendo), which means that people fighting GSP will be on their back, a position from which any weight advantaged they have will for the most part be nullified.

Silva would either knock GSP out or get pounded on until he was a bloody pulp. (I think the former scenario is less likely, btw.) GSP could come into that fight at 170 and take down Silva at will (I’m of course assuming this is so based on the success mediocre to average wrestlers have had against him — Lutter, Newton, Chonin, Leites, etc.). A skilled 170 pound wrestler will completely own a mediocre 200 lb wrestler. Period. Silva is not only a mediocre wrestler but he also doesn’t appear to alter his offensive output much to avoid the takedown, which makes him even more susceptible to take downs. In short, GSP doesn’t need to be 200 lbs to beat Silva.

I know GSP just wants to maximize his chances of winning but I’d selfishly like to see him take a little risk and make the jump to MW sooner rather than later. If he thinks he needs to walk around at 205 lb to be champ at MW he’s giving the various bums in the UFC’s MW division way too much credit (with the exception of Silva and perhaps Belfort) and himself too little credit.

I wonder what good news GSP is sitting on, the news about his new training partner? Could it be Mousasi, the two of them trained together recently and seemed to get along very well, and he recently parted ways with m-1.