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https://vimeo.com/134231852 anderson's ufc debut vs. leben is over ten years old at this point, but it's still basically a perfect 49-second encapsulation of how anderson changed mma forever. sprawl-and-brawl (primarily relying on your striking ability while moving forward, and also being good enough at wrestling to defend the takedown) which was popularized by guys like chuck liddell and wanderlei silva had been the dominant style of fighting in mma for a long time. anderson was one of the first to become truly good at counter fighting and it took mma another seven or so years to actually catch up to him. he looked basically completely unbeatable for those seven years, save for his classic fight with chael sonnen and the occasional extremely boring and passive fight against anyone who were as content to stand back as anderson.
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the important thing to remember about pride is that sakuraba is the best, and pro wrestling defeated the gracies
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i will never understand how condit survived that round
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 that's josh koscheck, probably the best wrestler at welterweight during that era, getting gsp fully off the floor and still ending up on his back. he was a complete freak of nature.
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the rematch happened about three years later and koscheck did get gsp down, but gsp popped right back up and proceeded to destroy koscheck's career by hitting him with so many lefts that he was visibly uncomfortable taking punches in every fight after.
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turns out that the entire welterweight division was Always Bad even though it was the best division in the UFC for like a decade and GSP's domination of it makes him at worst tied for greatest ever
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