lol, maybe. come to think of it, as long as I've known who he was, I never knew of him having a girlfriend. but then I don't know of a lot of fighters having a girlfriend
anyways, just finished the fight. here are my thoughts,...... I didn't do a striking count or anything but just overall analyzed. still feel the same as far as who won what rounds
rd 1, still have it being the closest round. gsp wins the exchanges all night when he was fighting on the outside. excellent footwork staying and moving to his left to avoid hendricks' left hand. Hendricks lands the harder punches but he gets tagged a lot from the outside, they have one take down each, neither doing anything significant after getting the take downs. hendricks' best moments in round 1 is in the middle of the round in the clinch, landing elbows to the head while George is trying to get the single leg takedown and nice knees to George's thighs. once separated George controls the outside with jabs and pops Hendricks head back a lot. this one I can see going either way
close round
rd 2, there are no take downs. Hendricks hurts George early in the round, first two minutes Hendricks is clearly winning. but then after that, George comes back fighting on the outside, tagging Hendricks with counters and jabs. scoring a lot of punches but nothing devastating. after George recovers he kind of takes over the round so I can see the argument for this round going to George but I scored it for Hendricks for being the one to hurt gsp more.
Hendricks wins round 2
rd 3, 1st half of the round I have George winning by outpointing Hendricks. Neither doing anything significant but again, George outpointing Hendricks from the outside. edging Hendricks the whole round but then Hendricks scores a takedown with like 30 sec left. not able to mount any ground and pound and at about 10 sec George gets back up. this round goes to George. One take down lasting about 20 seconds doesn't win the round when you're losing the whole round especially if you couldn't mount any offense with it
Gsp wins round 3
rd 4, no take downs, round fairly even with Hendricks able to land power shots. About a little over a minute in George trips and Hendricks gets on top. lands some shots, controls on the ground but then he gets up and lets George get up which I felt was a mistake. He should've used the opportunity to continue to land, control George and tire him out. But he does enough to win this round
Hendricks wins round 4
rd 5, this round was a lot closer than I had initially thought. first minute and a half I have Hendricks leading the round but then George scores a take down. Hendricks able to get right back up, then George turns it up. starts controlling the pace with Hendricks mainly back pedaling and countering. neither landing anything big but George is edging out the round on the feet with aggression and with octagon control. another takedown by George about a 45 seconds left. Hendricks ends up getting up and they clinch up with George going for a kimura and clock runs out. Over all in this round while George is trying to make something happen, Hendricks decides to cruise and looks to be the slightly more fatigue of the two.
George wins round 5