UFC 129 Results: Hours After, Georges St. Pierre Still Can't See With His Left Eye
by Anton Tabuena on May 1, 2011 4:10 AM EDT
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Most people were expecting a blowout, so naturally, a lot were disappointed with Georges St. Pierre's UFC 129 performance as we wasn't able to dispatch Jake Shields after five rounds of action. He won a decision and gave credit to his opponent, but the reason for GSP's poor showing was only revealed during Joe Rogan's post-fight interview with him. The champion was seen wincing in between rounds, but after the fight, St. Pierre mentioned that he couldn't see out of his left eye since the second round.
After the match, St. Pierre went to the Hospital to get his eye checked. He gave an update from his twitter account:
Hey everybody, leaving the hospital soon, just finished all my eye tests, I still don't see anything from my left eye but I'll be [fine]... Thanks for your support!!
A few hours after he fought, he still couldn't see out of his eye. This would normally be a concern, but since doctors said he'll be fine, hopefully that means that there will be no permanent damage. Here's to hoping for a speedy recovery.
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yeah
i bet kos couldn’t see out of his eye either, but he didn’t complain once during the fight.
"...was like a couple a' whores fightin' over a loose dollar."- Don Frye.
by gspisoverrated on May 1, 2011 4:20 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
what
gsp won?
"...was like a couple a' whores fightin' over a loose dollar."- Don Frye.
by gspisoverrated on May 1, 2011 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I can't even enjoy masturbating with one eye closed.
Let me preface this with the fact that I’m not a GSP fan.
He’s too perfect.
His voice his hilariously endearing and grating at the same time.
He’s got a body which incites jealousy in men, and a rise in southern humidity in ladies.
He’s got perfect teeth.
He eats at fancy restaurants on the primetime/countdown shows.
He makes my wife too horny.
Point is I’m not a fan of his, however…
GSP just spent 10+ minutes in a cage with another man trying to punch his f’n face off with the disadvantage of having one good eye.
The only person excited when that happened was probably Kos b/c he seems like the vindictive little sucker that might appreciate it. (I really hope not).
GSP could’ve quit when he couldn’t see. I appreciate that he hung in there and continued.
He may not have won any fans tonight, but to have lost any “fans” tonight would be hysterical. If you have the nerve to call yourself a GSP fan and give up at this point, punch yourself in the balls with a brick.
I’m a Cro Cop fan… try stomaching that train wreck for the past several years… but you bet your ass I’m screaming WAR MIRKO while my wife pats me on the back and consoles me every time he steps in the octagon.
If you stopped being a GSP fan several hours ago, ask yourself if you really ever were a fan?
by wrxdonkey on May 1, 2011 5:28 AM EDT up reply actions 8 recs
I don't get it
Did someone say that they were no longer a fan, above you?
BTW…I’m a fan
I posted a fanpost just hours ago and stated that while I’ll continue to be a fan of his, I will have to stop being his biggest fan.
So let me get this straight: the WWE has gone from the powerful "Austin 3:16" to the dominant and iconic "Can you smell what the Rock is cooking?" all the way to... (cue baby voice) "You can't see me." Oh, believe me, we all can see you. A blind-folded, sleeping, stuck in the basement, Stevie Wonder can see your monkey ass. - The Rock
Getting a scratch on your eye is a lot worse than getting your eye swollen shut.
Do some damn research
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by James Brady on May 1, 2011 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Unfortunately, GSP followed his own advance: he didn’t blink, got his eye scratched.
He said to Firaz (in french), as he was returning to his corner after the 3rd round, that he couldn’t see with his left eye and that he thought there was something in his eye. He sounded, and looked, genuinely freaked out about the whole situation. Hell, I’m a big GSP fan and I was worried when he said that. Clearly looked like the reason why he slowed down in my opinion, because otherwise he seemed like he was actually following a gameplan and was on his way to take Shields out with punches.
I think A Silva would smash GSP
I need to see GSP vs Diaz for reassurance
by rscott94 on May 1, 2011 4:25 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
every thread............
turns into silva vs gsp. 
It just seems the silva fans keep trying to reassure themselves.
yea, they keep forgetting this happened to their boy ...
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by pillowfists on May 1, 2011 5:17 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
damn that gif has too many frames, could you cut it down a bit further please
by Pyrgz Krum on May 1, 2011 5:26 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
I love that gif
that flying scissor 2 heel hook is some G ****
dude was getting stomped before he threw that
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by ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ on May 2, 2011 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions
woah woah woah
Me a Silva fan that’s why I was rooting for Belfort to knock him out or for Chael to lay on him for five rounds or for Okami to destroy him… Yeah I’m a HUGE Silva fan
by rscott94 on May 1, 2011 12:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
No fight is worth loosing eyesight, i would look at is as “its just a fight” not “its just an eye”.
by mikeI981j on May 1, 2011 4:34 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I donno dude, if any fight was worth losing sight for, it would be one that’s earning you a couple of million dollars.
I wouldn’t give up eyesight for any amount of money
by X5-452 on May 1, 2011 4:47 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Scrap that. Just tried walking around with one eye closed. It sucked.
by MMAussie on May 1, 2011 4:52 AM EDT up reply actions 9 recs
ahhh yes, but try...
walking around on your own private yacht with one eye closed, a sexy lady on each arm to guide you, and 1 million billion gazillion dollars in your off shore bank account. eh? you like that?
by GetItOn on May 1, 2011 6:02 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Would have been interesting if Shields caught on that fact
Sick of people hating on GSP because he went through a decision, he won a fight with one eye, that says enough.
by elmojo on May 1, 2011 5:05 AM EDT reply actions 7 recs
Thank you
so sick of hearing the undereducated about how bored they were.
GSP = P4P best. People don’t know greatness when it’s here. Only when it’s gone.
People who don't have the patience for the technical aspect of MMA should think about getting into another sport. THIS ONE requires BRAINS.
by i_am_awesome_o on May 1, 2011 5:08 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wow
I’m undereducated because I found him boring? I think that’s just stating the obvious. I think he’s great though and a master of martial arts, just delivers in a boring fashion. I’ll still buy all of his PPV’s, but expect I’ll have fun the rest of the night, and appreciate one fight.
Being a great fighter is not the same as being an exciting one.
Every PPV I tell myself that GSP will come out and put on an entertaining fight only to come away disappointed. I know it’s a lot to expect for a fighter to come out and finish his competition especially when he is fighting guys at the top of his division but come on I want to see a knockout. Hell at this point I would take a B.S. REF stoppage.
That doesn’t mean that the fight wasn’t boring. The fight bored many MMA fans, including myself, and I don’t see what the problem is with MMA fans feeling bored with the fight as that is their opinion. As far as people’s perspective on GSP though, he’s one of the best fighters in the world and just beat an opponent that was considered in the top ten of the pound for pound rankings in many rankings. In my opinion, this fight was a stinker, but GSP as a fighter is one of the best out there.
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It would be horrible if his eye was seriously damaged
How treatable are scratched corneas / detached retinas?
They can usually be repaired
I had a scratched cornea and just received eye drops and made like a pirate for several weeks.
“Alan Belcher recently suffered a detached retina in a war with Patrick Cote at UFC 113 leaving him hopefully temporarily blind in his right eye. In the worst case scenario, Belcher says his vision does not improve and he will likely be unable to fight any longer.”
Temporary blindness could mean detached retina, could mean he is going to be gone for a year or more, really sucks.
It's just a world, it's just a life.
Yes that would suck
But what wouldn’t suck is if GSP decided to relinquish the belt and use the time off to beefcake for his trip to 185 and fight Silva. BEEFCAKE!
You are incorrect sir
Cote did not detach Belcher’s retina it happened in a training session in Brazil……I official read to many MMA blogs
I wouldn't say it's "gotta be"...
…it could be a scratch. I had a scratched retina when I was younger and it felt like there was something in my eye (not an eyelash or something, more like a scratchy grain of sand or something). I could not stop blinking and it didn’t feel pleasant.
Could be a scratched cornea. He’d be over that in a couple days. Retinal detachment could be a death knell to his career.
by VirtualBalboa on May 1, 2011 8:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Not necessarily
In my first muay thai fight, I took a super man punch in the first minute and was blinded in my right eye. I was frankly terrified and when I went to my corner between rounds I told them I couldn’t see and maybe my retina was detached, but they told me “everything is OK! just close the distance and beat him in the clinch.” So I actually fought to a decision blind in one eye. In the end, my vision came back completely sometime after the fight. It wasn’t my retina, but it was goddamn scary. Oh, and I lost the decision.
That was a good and bad story
It’s good you got you sight back, well you lived the rest of it.
I'm no opthamologist
but if it was a retinal detachment, I think they’d know by now.
It explains the lower accuracy of his punches, one eye = no depth perception.
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Exactly
Same problem Kos had against GSP, remember how his takedown attempts later in the fight literally missed by feet?
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by The American Ronin on May 2, 2011 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions
You act like this is his first lackluster performance.
He always fights like this., no matter how many eyes he has.
by barpower on May 1, 2011 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Against Koscheck and Fitch, he was connecting his strikes with much more accuracy and not throwing wild overhand rights, and his outclassing them showed in Koscheck’s eye and Fitch’s deformed face. Against strikers like Alves and Hardy, he took them down and got in dominant positions against them many times. I think I get what you are trying to say in that GSP fights safe and conservatively, but even in the cases where he was primarily standing with his opponent, he hurt them very badly but just didn’t KO or TKO them as shown with Fitch and Koscheck.
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Why are people ignoring the fact that Shields barely did anything but stand up in that fight?
Shields did absolutely nothing to benefit himself in the fight. I think I saw him shoot like twice. It almost looked fixed.
Your signature should be this short.
He couldn't get inside
and when he did, it was from catching kicks, and there he couldn’t finish his single leg because Georges had too strong of a base. Georges was establishing range so well Shields was left with too options, shoot from way way outside, or try to strike your way inside of Georges’ jab. He tried both and neither really worked. You saw what happened when he tried to strike his way inside, and when he shot from way outside he never even smelled Georges’ hips. Georges just stuffed him with his hands. That’s how you know a td attempt had no shot.
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Disappointed in GSP's corner
Maybe someone has commented on this, but I was extremely disappointed in Greg Jackson. Granted I did not have privy to all conversations, but can you stop with the “eye is fine”, “breath” comments and tell him to stop with the looping overhand right? How about a straight right? How about set your punches up with some kicks? Forget the spin kick! Right to the body! At one point, you hear someone just say “Knock him out!” Guy had a 6.5 reach advantage and just jabbed and missed.
scratched eyes are not fun
I scratched my eyeball once and thought I would be blind for the rest of my life. Overdramatic yes, but when you lose something you have had and taken for granted your whole life, I think it is natural for people to fear the worst.
To fathom having somebody coming at me swinging punches at that point in time is not possible.
I have the utmost respect for the man.
by Passive on May 1, 2011 11:02 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
it would appear
you are in the very serious minority, What I find odd on here, especially from all the haters, this isn’t the first time GSP has faught injured, and then won the fight anyway. People seem to be confusing good, or even great fighter with exciting. Yes GSP has been fighting a boring style for a while now, but he’s still a great fighter. But let the haters hate, at the end of the day, we’re all just arm chair atheletes living vicariously through the t.v.
It isn't hating to call GSP boring.
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by Loot on May 1, 2011 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Everyone gets evaluated after a fight..
He just happens to be increasingly uninteresting to watch.
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i thought the Kos fight was great. THe fight should have been stopped and now Kos has nerve damage. GSP destroys people and he was smacking Shields around up until the eye tear or what ever happened to it.
I’d rather just climb this fridge
This is probably an accurate statement, but...
It doesn’t change the fact that GSP hurt Shields a few times, showed absolutely no interest in attempting to finish, and then talks about how much he wanted the finish after the fight.
I’m sorry, but I’m not ready to pat GSP on the back for that one. The routine is getting old.
The same criticism could be levelled at Shields
And he had 2 perfect eyes.
I am no GSP fan in particular but I have accepted that GSP fights a certain that doesn’t necessarily make for exciting fights. He has said on numerous occasions he will not get involved in a free-for-all shootout until someone drops for the obvious reason that the mathematics of it shift the odds from being significantly in his favor to flip a coin.
That does not mean I cannot appreciate the elite athleticism he displays.
“showed absolutely no interest in attempting to finish”
i refute this statement.
I would say the headkick that dropped Shields would have KO’d a good percentage of fighters. That was a fair attempt to finish in my opinion.
So were those god-awful flailing overhand rights he was swinging. They were “finishing” punches, its almost as if he was too eager to get the KO.
The man fought on with 1 good eye on his lead side, that takes enough courage to earn my respect. I guess some people have made their mind up about him and its a shame they are missing the opportunity to enjoy the supreme athlete he is whilst he is in the prime of his career.
by Passive on May 1, 2011 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
he used the overhand right and exaggerated it based on Hendo’s first round against Shields.
in the first 2 rounds it was landing, maintaining distance and setting up the spinning back kick.
after the 2nd round eye gouge/poke/scrape GSP continued w/ the initial stages of his plan because maintaining distance allowed him the best vision possible. if he had started closing distance he would have jeopardized his sight lines and increased the chances of one of the worst strikers (for top ranked fighters) to catch him w/ something and ending on his back, which is the LAST place he wanted to be.
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by F'n Clownshoes on May 2, 2011 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Well, for clarification, I said he showed no interest in attempting to finish AFTER landing big shots.
But yeah, I respect GSP too, but I’m not ashamed to say that I am certainly less of a fan after the fight. One eye or two eyes, there were opportunities in that fight for GSP, but he not only let them slip away, he seemed more than content to watch them pass by. I’m convinced that for GSP to get a stop, he will end up having to get that one punch KO, because it’s apparently too dangerous to follow up with a second or third punch.
Again though, I’m not saying GSP isn’t a great fighter, or one of the best P4P, or that in some ways he did some great things last night with one eye, I’m saying that given the evidence the fight may have very well gone the exact same way if he had two eyes, and that is certainly a disappointment regardless.
Agreed on the flush KO approach
I think those horrible overhand rights were really evidence of that.
To me he is the kind of fighter where I know what I am going to get nowadays so I don’t expect anything more. Maybe I should like a lot of people seem to, but I wouldn’t watch a reality tv show expecting to be intellectually stimulated.
Why wasn't the fight stopped?
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by Neil Manich on May 1, 2011 2:14 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
for the same reason that didnt stop gsp vs. kos
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by DK_Monster on May 1, 2011 4:29 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
why doesn’t anyone criticize Shields for not capitalizing on a half blind man? I think that’s why GSP didn’t wanna take the fight to the ground with shields because he can’t see out of his left eye. I don’t think GSP trained to grapple half blind with ONE OF THE BEST GRAPPLERS out there.
I actually blame Shields for the fight being boring...
5th round, he was down all through out (2 stupid judges didn’t know what they were watching) and what did Jake do? Regardless if GSP was injured or not, Jake should’ve done something to win, instead he chose to throw those weak jabs over and over, even on the final 30 seconds, he did nothing.
by Anton Tabuena on May 1, 2011 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Gotta Agree
sheilds did not press the action at all most of the fight The challenger has to beat the champ he didnt and showed very little in the way of tactics to improve his situation as the fight progressed
by oldschoolsifu on May 2, 2011 9:08 AM EDT up reply actions
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