GSP vs. Diaz: 5 Takeaways from St-Pierre’s Dominating Win

Georges St-Pierre enjoyed another night of glory at UFC 158 on Saturday, dominating Nick Diaz for five rounds in front of a home-crowd audience in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.The win is GSP’s 11th straight and helps him to further stake his claim as …

Georges St-Pierre enjoyed another night of glory at UFC 158 on Saturday, dominating Nick Diaz for five rounds in front of a home-crowd audience in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The win is GSP’s 11th straight and helps him to further stake his claim as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

As usual, he did it in emphatic style, controlling Diaz with his wrestling for most of the match and leaving the Stockton bad-boy unable to come up with excuses for his failures.

Diaz’s vaunted BJJ skills and pressure-boxing did no damage to GSP. Against the cage and in the clinch, Diaz seemed to fare marginally better. However, we’ve never seen him fight like that, and he wasn’t going to spend much of the match clinched up either way.

Of course, that wasn’t the only takeaway from the night. Here are five others. 

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