GSP is the sport’s most complete mixed martial artist
Middleweight champion Anderson Silva has the longest winning streak in UFC history with 12 straight victories, but St. Pierre has…
Middleweight champion Anderson Silva has the longest winning streak in UFC history with 12 straight victories, but St. Pierre has won 30 straight rounds. By comparison, Silva has dropped six of the 29 rounds he’s fought. During his 30-round stretch, St. Pierre has out-landed his opponents by a tally of 1,067-367.
His last five opponents were a combined 50-6 just before facing him. Since 2006, four of Silva’s ex-opponents have been released by the UFC. Since that time, not a single one of GSP’s former opponents has been released.
Over his last five fights, St. Pierre has had nearly perfect distribution of his strikes, throwing 682 standing strikes, and 696 ground strikes.
St. Pierre has successfully taken down his foe on 33 of 43 tries. Koscheck’s first-round takedown against him on Saturday night was the first time GSP had been taken down in over three years, and that was by Koscheck.
Over his last 13 fights, he’s spent 99:05 standing, and 85:03 on the ground, laying to rest the claim he won’t stand with people.
St. Pierre is the sport’s most complete mixed martial artist, and may one day be considered the greatest of all time.