Jake Shields Expects To Sign With The UFC, Wants To Fight GSP
EliteXC welterweight title-holder Jake Shields, in a recent interview with Newsday, revealed his intention to sign with the UFC and challenge UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre for the title:
Shields is also upbeat about his future. He predicts he’ll land with the UFC, whose president Dana White has shown interest in him.
“For me, I’m looking for top competition,” Shields said. “I want to prove I’m the best fighter in the world. Georges St. Pierre, it’s an opportunity to fight him and show I’m the best.”
And joining the UFC would give Shields the opportunity to add another championship belt to his collection.
“I think I’m gonna be the top 170-pounder there. I wanna be the best. I wanna go there and take the belt,” Shields said. “I wouldn’t be happy with anything less.”
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He has to get out from under Elite first…but that would be fun. Dana would probably make him fight someone else first before he got to fight GSP, though.
This guy has got to be kidding. Him beating GSP not a cold day in hell. He would be lucky to beat Serra!!!!!
GSP WOULD TOUCH HIM IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES.
GSP Will kill him
He should have to at least get through Fitch and/or Sanchez first. GSP is booked for awhile; if he beats Penn, he has to defend against Alves before anyone else gets a shot.
ooo wheres KOuch….im sure he is going to be very happy i say put hum against karo for his first fight or fitch
wow u guys underestimate shields he beat diego in a grappling match in under a minute…he could beat gsp easily…..if he came in he would be the best jiu jitsu practitioner in the ww division…he could sub gsp easily….gsp is good at jits but not shields good….i could shields see catching him especially if gsp tries to take him down…on the ground gsp would be done….comparing gsp’s jits to shields is as pointless as comparing sherks conditioning to josh haynes
I thought Shields was great until his last fight.
Against Daley i thought he looked fairly average but his striking is what made me think this guy is a long way away from the fighter he thinks he is.
if gsp is dumb enough to take it to the ground he deserves to get subbed but gsp will stand and trade and shields wont b able to take him down resultin in a gsp (T)KO. and y r we talking bout grappling matches? last i checked this was an mma fight which is pretty far off from a grappling match
not by much…if shields can sub diego in a grappling match he can do it in mma
Sheilds I really really good no doubt, GSP would win in a match against Sheilds imo, I like the idea of have Sheilds fight Fitch or McLovin but nevertheless if/when Dana signs Jake that will mix~up the 170lbs division
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not from wat i saw against daily. and besides that he needs to get him into a position to sub him. and with his stand up being as crappy as it is i think the top 5 wws in the ufc would b smart enough to keep it on the feet.so unless gsp, fitch, alves, kos, or sanchez try to take it to the ground its not goin there so for shields to sub anyone of those 5 hed need to pull off something spectacular like a flying armbar
Oh please let him fight GSP… Shields has not fought in an MMA anybody of real significance, and his striking is lightyears behind top competition. He is a great BJJ submission expert but do you really see him as more dominant than Penn? If we use the ever so utilized but really useless who fought who categories, Fitch dominated Sanchez, despite what the blind judges saw in their fight and GSP dominated Fitch. Shields is a great WW, and maybe even a top 10 guy. But until I see him fight guys at the level of Koshcheck, Karo, Alves, Fitch and GSP, then I’m still in doubt of him being the best in the world… But PLEASE let him fight GSP so he can get destroyed and then go back to his WEC belt for support.
Jake sure is begging to be eating through a straw for a while. I don’t think people realize the jump in competition. Thiago, Fitch, I just watch the UFC and I think I could beat Shields.
Really is a smart approach though, talk talk talk… I wish him the best of luck, but I really don’t even see him beating Kampman. After he loeses to GSP and is rushed to the hospital the only thing he will be winning in the WW division is a wheel chair race with Burkman.
i haven’t really seen jake fight,all i no about him is what a read on this site, but i think alot of people on here are “ufc natzis” as KOuch likes to say, so most people just write a fighter off straight away even before they have signed. anyway he should be saying he wants to fight BJ if he wants the belt cos penn is guna kick gsp ass all the way back to mmmmmm france??? canada??? who no’s, in the words on BJ PENN “gsp your dead”
he could beat gsp easily? he could sub gsp easily? IF ANYONE THINKS SHEILDS COULD EVEN GET GSP TO THE GROUND THEY CLEARLY HAVE NOT SEEN GSP IN ACTION OR SHEILDS LAST FIGHT WITH DAILY. FAR TO EXPLOSIVE AND QUICK FOR SHEILDS AND PLUSE HIS TAKEDOWN DEFENSE IS SECOND TO NONE. I WILL BE SUPRISED IF BJ TAKES HIM DOWN. gunslinger PASS THE GOOD STUFF BECAUSE YOU ARE ON CLOUD NINE… THIS IS MMA NOT A JIU JITSU COMPOTITION.
GSP’S MMA SKILLS ARE THE BEST RIGHT NOW AND I WOULD SAY GOOD ENOUGH TO FIGHT SHEILDS AND WIN ANY DAY, EVEN IF IT GOES TO THE GROUND.
John Fitch
Thiago Alves
Josh Koschek
Matt Hughes
Karo Parisyan
An Octagon Girl
Joe Rogan
Shields, if you’re reading, please know that every single person on this list will hand you a huge loss, much less GSP
I hesrd he was getting Diego Sanchez.
He wants my boy GSP??? Dude he’s DREAMING!!!
The WEC WW div. isn’t anything like it is in the UFC so i don’t care if he was the champ. He’s got to prove himself, first.
GSP would make him ugglier then how he left fitch.
ya poor shields will need just that, a big honkin huge sheild to protect him from “the rush”
position before submission is my dojo’s no1 rule when it comes to ground game… and unless you can get your position and hold it you wont have the chance to submit…
its the same arguement time and time again… anything can and will happen in the oct, but flat out saying sheilds can beat GSP is far-fetched…
so what if his jiujitsu is a skill point below sheilds, he makes up for that small difference in one aspect of skill with, conditioning, stand-up, and ground work, GSP trains with the Canadian national wrestling team and shows them up… he trains what 5 days a week or more… i dont see sheidls beating him… not even on paper
i would lose to an octagon girl..
Gunslinger,
Hello old friend. I’ve been busy as hell lately and feel like I am going crazy. However, Shields news I have.
Shield’s recently sparred(boxing) with a close asscoiate of mine who is a pro boxer.(sorry I cannot mention names) Anyway, around the boxing circle of gyms I have relationships with the word is that Shield’s boxes like a “little kid throwing haymakers with his head down.” What I tried explaining to these boxers was that Jake is a JJ guy working on his stand up. I also pointed out that he could likely go three rds boxing and stay concious against many boxers oppose to going 3 rds MMA/JJ where Jake would submit the boxers in a minute or two. F-ING boxing/MMA arguments! I am so sick of it. People from the world of boxing are jealous as hell of the uprise of MMA and make uneducated remarks due to lack of knowldge and arogance. Boxing is not the only skilled style of fighting. If anything it is one of the most boring at the present time. We all know Jake needs to work on his stand up and he is doing exactly that. Ragardless, this is not boxing….it’s MMA. Fighters do not NEED supreme power in their striking. Of course it is a good thing to have in one’s arsenal but the point is…..the bottom line is…..the fact remains the same…..this is MMA. All different fighting styles are involved and matched against each other. Hmmmmmm…..Royce Gracie comes to mind right now for some crazy reason. Shields belongs in the UFC because his JJ is f-ing sick! HE is badass. Do I think he could beat GSP? Standing NO F-ing way. If it goes to the ground…….UPSET waiting to happen yet again to GSP. Jake belongs in the UFC but needs to fight the #10, 7, 5 guy and then get a UFC review. I feel Jake is very under rated by the masses.
kouch
I agree with you on this issue. I believe Shields cannot box, period. If he is calling out GSP, someone needs to seriously give that boy a piece of reality:
1. First, you have to GET GSP down
2. Then you have to KEEP him down
3. Next, you have to position yourslef for a submission
4. Execute submission
Shields can do none of those things against any top welterweights (Fitch, Kos, Pitbull), less the king of all welterweights.
Josh,
My friend……my dear Josh……little Joshua……my dear friend……friend Josh….dear josh friend….Jake has done that to Fitch in the past. Diego Sanchez too. Yes he can do that. I believe 100% he would beat GSP on the ground as well. Jake’s JJ is what makes him special. Not just a good fighter or great fighter….a special fighter. Above average dear Josh.
KOuch, good to see you back in all of your splender, seriously dude u going Friday?
people underestimate shields and dont understand who he has beat in my opinion he is at least #3 or #4 in the world…just because he isnt from the ufc doesnt mean he sucks and incase some people didnt know shields has beaten the following very talented fighters- jeremy jackson, sakurai, misaki,dave menne,yushin okami,carlos condit,pyle,thimpson, and daly…not to mention fitch and diego in grappling in which he destroyed them…and how come everyone is saying he has to take gsp down…hello theres the old fashion trick called “PULLING GUARD” …duh!….and ya im pretty sure if hughes can catch gsp then i know shields would turn gsp into a canadian pretzel and wash that pretzel down with a nice canada dry ginger ale!..and no im actually not that big of a shields fan heck i used to make fun of Kouch about him but I do believe he is highly underrated and that is only because he wasnt in the ufc….everyone needs to learn there is more mma out there besides the ufc…heck most people here didnt even know who anderson silva was before he fought leben and would have lol’d at someone if they would have said he would eventually turn franklin and henderson into dust
That’s funny…
There is other MMA than the UFC get outta here
But seriously Gun, I stand by the statement that most people don’t realize how talented Sheilds is… Hell even if GSP just shot in on Sheilds and he had to work to be in gaurd he is dangerous but he won’t fight GSP first well maybe when St.Pierre loses to BJ “Motherfuccking” Penn then they have their match I see it now Sheilds v St.Pierre May of 2009 in Toronto (sorry I had too..)
I do belive sheilds is a great fighter and would be a very great addition to the UFC but no way as good as GSP, The Pit Bull, Fitch, or BJ right now. I would say Diego would be a great fight for him. Maybe Kos but it might be a problem getting him to the floor. Also how do you pull guard with a defense like GSP’s. get real. Sheilds would be lucky to even clinch with GSP if he decides to even get close.
gunslinger and kouch, you guys are believers and we need people like you in debate, but don’t forget gsp kicks the **** out of people standing, sitting, sleeping, awake, high, or low, on a plane or in a train. Shields is good but not best in the world, I remember that everyone said fitch would kill gsp too and look what happened there. Shields has good sub. skills but gsp has power and athleticism and would fist feck shields before he got a chance to get him on the ground
FR,
I’ll be there. My buddy is bringing me for my bday. See you there.
No way Shields gets a title shot before Thiago Alves. They should make Shields fight Diego Sanchez first.
Shields will be a great addition to the UFC, whenever he makes it over. He will have some great fights, and may end up fighting GSP. The guys that think he’s garbage need to look into his earlier career, the guys that think he’s going to dethrone GSP need to realize that he has the skills on the ground, but its getting him there, and honestly, he didn’t look that great against Daley, so he will have to come out better than he did in that fight to stand any chance at all.
HAHAHAHA wow you guys are hilarious for thinking shields would beat gsp. okay serra has world class jiu jitsu, so does bj penn, and gsp has beaten both of them. he has also wrestled around matt hughes. so i seriously doubt shields would EASILY beat gsp. are you f****** kidding me? standing up, gsp would absolutely kill shields. throw shields up against fitch, or kos, or alves. yall should be talking about whether or not he could beat them first. alves would make shields look terrible. oh and dont forget, shields fights in elitexc which has NO fighters who are at the level of any of the ufc champions. he has to prove himself first. and i dont see that happening.
Kouch
So you mean to tell me that John Fitch has been beaten by Jake Shields in MMA? Really? Really? OR……….Fitch lost to Shields IN COLLEGE in a GRAPPLING MATCHUP!!! Very different, “my dear Kouch”…..
So, in reality, he hasn’t done that at all.
Shields will have to face some of the gate keepers first.
1. Karo “do you know who I am”- Jake destroys him in less than 3 minutes.
2. Koscheck- Will take it to the ground and that will be his doom.
3. Diego Sanches- already made him tap, enough said.
Well now after he dispatches these 3 guys and he will, he would have to face BJ Penn, who is going to beat GSP in January. Now that would be a fight for the ages. I want to see whose BJJ is the best in the world.
Shields is the No 2 WW right now and is a great fighter why is he getting flack ?
He beat Paul Daley who is IMO the most dangerous striker at WW and has beat WEC WW champ Condit, Okami, Pyle & Nick Thompson he has a good record and has thought quality fighters.
GSP will not roll over Shields it will a close fight and Jake has great submission and a good chin.
I think he will get Koscheck in a No 1 contender match then he will get GSP if successful
u fellas are crazy as hell to even think that shields even belongs in the ufc!! He’s terrible!! Watched the last fight on elite… He blows!! I just don’t really understand all the hype about u guys sayin that he’ll ever get to fight gsp. He’ll never get past kos, alves, Hughes…. Any of the top 10’s. Hell elite has pre-determined endings just like WWE!!! IMO that’s the only reason he won against daly… So all u guys with a hard on for shields…. Dream on!
people say this is mma so matter how good u are at bjj ur still not a class mma guy, RIGHT can people please explain to me damion maia, every1 says hes close to a shot, all he’s got his bjj so i dont see why jake can’t do the same,
also im not trying to big either one of these guys up i hate it when guys pull guard, like maia did to quarry. this is why im such a big fan of BJ the guys bjj is class but i dont think he’d ever pull guard to get in that situation, he works on other sides of his game to get them down, just like jake is doing working on his boxing etc, so i hope maia does the same, the jackass!
FR do u think bj will beat GSP? dont say we are agreeing on something!!;)
yea, this guy has a death wish. Will be cool to see him in the UFC tho, I do like shields.
i’m a big numbers guy, so here are some numbers regarding shields vs. st. pierre: st. pierre’s last ten opponents have a 215-49-2 record while the last ten opponents of shields have a 204-77-8 record. also, the last ten opponents of st. pierre have been submitted 14% of the time in thier losses and the last ten opponents of shields have lost by submission 36.64% of the time in thier losses! these numbers tell me that st. pierre has faced better opposition more often and bjj of his opponents has been 2.5 times better than the bjj of shields opponents! nuff said…
i was reading that trey but then i saw i squirrel in my garden and it had a nut, it looked so happy until my dog ran over to it makeing it drop the nut and climbing the fence to safty, ive now shouted at my dog and it will not get a treat untill the morning,
JohnBoy, first sign up on MMAFrenZy.com secondly this wouldnt be the first time that we have agreed, and yes I do believe that BJ Penn will beat GSP, and ya i can see how GSP can win and that bs yet being a fan of them both i still think that BJ Penn will defeat GSP and become the new WW champion of the world
i dont know why most of you that are here everyday havent signed up here, to each their own iguess
my dog did the same thing to our squirrel. will they ever learn?
Ufc_freak,
Shields was unimpressive in that fight, but that’s not his first fight, go look at some of his other fights, you can’t judge a fighter on one fight.
I am gunna start by saying jake isn’t the wec champ(who he has beaten) he is the elite xc champ and he would get ate alive in the ufc. Who cares what he has done in grappling matches. True there is other mma out there but its like comparing different divisions in college football. Sheilds is top ten in the world no doubt and he won his last fight against a great stricker with no ground game he won’t find that in the ufc. He is as one sided as they come and gsp just got his black belt his wrestling is amazing and his striking is lethal. Don’t get me wrong I hate gsp but he would kill him. The top five in the ufc are so well rounded I don’t see sheilds having a chance I will give it to the guy he might be in the top ten but ww champ in the ufc he will never be. The only champ from elite that has a chance at maybe getting a belt is lawler. Sheilds isn’t ready give him a couple years to develope he is young.
no way the top talent in Elite XC comes close to the top talent in the UFC. He should prove he deserves that shot by facing someone like Diego Sanchez.
he should fight mclovin, see how good his bjj is
That would be an interesting fight, johnboy.
gunslinger ur high on super glue. when gsp beats penn if it goes five gsp will be the best a jits or whatever u call it cause as far as im concerned bj is probably the best in the world and i dont even like the guy. gsp has the best take down defense and takedowns in the WORLD!And the best ground and pound. jake shields cant do **** if he is getting leg kicked jab in the face taken down and punched in the face.
nev-o, how can GSP be the best at “jits” if he keeps the fight on his feet, or wrestles him to death? Think before you type, boy.
I have to agree with my man KOuch on this one fellas. Shields CAN beat GSP…and it may happen. If this fight goes to the ground, which if Shields has his way, it will, it will not be good for GSP. GSP does have some good ground skills and damn good takedown defense, but Shields is not slouch in either category. If he can improve his standup, this fight could be an upset.
I like GSP, but go Shields!
Sheilds *ucking sucks. He couldnt beat him self out of a wet paper bag. The WEC guys aren’t ready for UFC talent.
he d-biz did u see the arm bar against hughes?
This guy needs to calm down. If he wants to enter the best weight class ever then see what he can do against a Diago Sanchez, Kos, or even jon Fitch.
he choke out frank trigg! and he beat dave strasser who has 15 of his 25 wins by submission! Thats like saying o ya bj isnt that good at his stand up game…. u take what ur given….!
and i went to ufc 87 he doesnt wrestle he takes people down and punches them in the face over and over. watch some mma d-biz watch some mma. George has his black belt….are u high d biz?
So that’s two people so far that somehow think Shields is from WEC.
Read what you said, you illiterate juvenile. You said, “when gsp beats penn if it goes five gsp will be the best a jits or whatever u call it cause as far as im concerned bj is probably the best in the world and i dont even like the guy. gsp has the best take down defense and takedowns in the WORLD!And the best ground and pound.”
Nowhere in there is anything you can describe as jits. You descriibe stand up and wrestling.
In order to be the best at jits, he’ll have to avoid every submission BJ tries, then get his own submission on. Which means not ground and pounding, and not standing and jabbing.
LMFAO-Shields would be lucky to beat Serra.
Now that’s just too funny
Hey Gunslinger- it’s alot easier to grapple when you’re not taking punches,knees and elbows
Trey_Trey - Thats just retarded
Spoiler Alert: GSP destroys BJ-TKO R2
well im gonna address everyone who addressed me….first
nev-o, gsp the best wrestler in mmma..ha!..no im srry buddy but that has to go to the new hw champ…im srry but lesnar would gsp in straight wrestling….randy couldnt take him down and randy would school gsp..the reason gsp beats wrestlers in wrestling anymore is because guess…what he trains with cnadas wrestling team…..you know who the guys in the ufc who r wrestlers wrestle..no one there barely training wrestling…there training with small guys so there not getting experience…if kos/fitch when back to there wrestling roots and trained straight wrestling for a while then they would destroy gsp and his riddum easily in wrestling like pin him in under a minute…..but guess what i hate wrestling…im a fighter but never took wreslting…i dont see the fun in pinning a guy to the ground..its not like a real fight its like just boxing its limiting the skills it takes to really fight…jits > wrestling….
jaymz, well guess what if gsp shoots he gets subbed…..if he gets close enough for a punch then guess what shields pulls guard…if he throws a kick shields could catch it and take him down with it….oooo the ways gsp could fall…..i like gsp but i will laugh so hard if bj vs gsp ends like serra/gsp 1 and bj just comes out swinging and ko’s riddum……i really dont see gsp beating bj…bj used to be a boxer….he has better hands…he has better jui jitsu…..his conditiong is no longer a problem….gsp does have the wrestling advantage and the speed due to his karate background…but i really see bj winning.
but im really done trying to defend shields…some people get it some dont….im just gonna let shields do the talking and just wait for the welter weight limbs to be breaking off every fight…the fight that i think would be good at ww for shields would be shields vs mclovin…both great at jits would probably end with a shields sub though …shields is just a little better having trained with ceaser gracie…..and ceaser gracie > jorge gurgel…though i am a huge fan of team jg you gotta rep ohio mma baby!
Jake shields isnt a bum….. but I cant seem to think of a current champ that is that one dimensional(maybe Lesnar but he hasnt had enough fights for me to judge). He did beat Carlos Condit and Yushin Okami in one night. IMO GSP by TKO. Shields only chance is to get it to the ground and I just dont see him taking down GSP.
Gunslinger- LOL,that comment about kos/fitch is just retarded.GSP dominated both of them.And the point of wrestling is to control your opponent-not make them tap.Unless you’re talking WWE-and we don’t even want to go there.
Also,you’re obviously a Shields fan,and I have nothing against him.His BJJ is very solid.But we’re talking MMA-Not just BJJ.And GSP just received his black belt so he’s obviously no slouch there either.I just think GSP is on another level than Shields in all aspects.
Spoiler Alert: GSP-TKO’s BJ,R2
Shield = good on the ground, GSP = can’t be taken to the ground = GSP punches his face until his mouth looks like a puckered asshole.