Jake Shields: The Specialist

Jake Shields vacated his Strikeforce Middleweight Championship to chase gold in the UFC at 170 pounds. In this video, FIGHT!'s October 2010 cover subject talks about his collection of championship belts and the tight-knit team at Cesar Gracie Jiu Jitsu.

Shot and edited by Rick Lee.

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• Strikeforce
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• mixed martial arts
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• muay thai
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[oakmantex]

@ocean514 True Shields lost 3 out of the 5 rounds.  But he won the 4th and 5th round and looked fresh enough to go another five rounds. GSP was ready to go to the hospital. We will see Shields win the UFC belt before he is done.

[VeganMotorcyclePilot]

I think Jake did a good job, he shut GSP's attacks down, improved and proved his kickboxing is solid depiste claims, just has not had to use it much. By damage, Shields won. Im also glad that Jake did not act desparate shooting for tons of takedowns at the end when he was fine. At the same time I still would have liked him to have clinched, pulled guard or attempt submissions go all out a bit more to seal a win without judges, but it was very close. Respect, but he is capable of being ww champ!

[AnimalAbusingLosers3]

@BigJohnButNotTall good point here but wouldnt be so immature calling him and idiot and be such a keyboard warrior like most on mma videos.

[AnimalAbusingLosers3]

@BigJohnButNotTall I read all the posts, nothing political, it was about health and Jake being a good rolemodel. Now go back to talking about nonsense, at least he brought up a good issue relevant to this so go elsewhere yourself then.

[BigJohnButNotTall]

@VeganMotorcyclePilot take your political ideas elsewhere, im pretty sure no one wants to hear you bitch about how guys endorsing sponsers is so terrible. These guys dont make alot of money, and they work harder than many of the other people in sports, so if you want to bitch and moan about fans health than get the fuck off of this mma video and leave people who want to watch it alone.

[BigJohnButNotTall]

@davejones8 um, your the idiot. All you are is a bloodthirsty guy who wants to see someone get knocked out in the most gruesome way possible. Mayby if you werent so ignorant, and understood what was going on on the ground it would be more exiting for you. If you want entertainment, watch pro wrestling.

[davejones8]

@oakmantex your an idiot,...how can you support shields he an fitch are same style no body like them they are both boring as hell///him and fitch gate keepers

[VeganMotorcyclePilot]

Ellenberger is an has been legit, 25 w's! However Shields faced better competition and I think he was fine, head was down going for TD when he grabbed the official. His hand was up deflecting some of the punches to side of head. Not to forecast what could have happened, but afterward he seemed well aware and with it. I say it was a premature stoppage, he has shown he can come back. If he was in more trouble then he would have let go of the leg and went to his back as he did against hendo/daily

[JDMMA1]

@VeganMotorcyclePilot lol man, just let the guys make their money for living... don't juge them to easily