GSP And His MMA Career

Georges St-Pierre was born May 19, 1981 in Saint-Isidore, Quebec, to Jim and Louise St-Pierre. St-Pierre had a difficult childhood , tending a school where other people would steal his clothes and cash. He began studying Kyokushin karate at the early age of seven by his father and later with a Kyokushin Karate Master to defend himself against a school bully , Nikolas Mavrikos.

He took up wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu after wards when his Karate instructor past on and he also trained in boxing . Before he turned pro as a MMA artist he worked at a night club as a bouncer within the South Shore named Fuzzy Brossard and as a garbageman for 6 months to fund his school fees and to purchase his MMA gear for example his Mixed martial arts Shorts and MMA Gloves

St-Pierre has trained with a number of groups in a large variety of gyms throughout his fighting career . Before his battle with B.J. Penn at UFC 58, he trained in the Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in New York City. St-Pierre acquired his brown belt in BJJ from Renzo Gracie on July 21, 2006. In September 2008, St-Pierre earned his black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu below Bruno Fernandes.

St-Pierre started training with Rashad Evans, Nathan Marquardt, Keith Jardine, Donald Cerrone, along with other skilled MMA battlers at Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting Gaidojutsu school in New Mexico. Some of Jackson’s students attended St-Pierre to Montreal to help prepare him for his fight at Ultimate fighting championship 94 against B.J. Penn at the Tristar Gym, including Keith Jardine, Nathan Marquardt, Donald Cerrone and Rashad Evans. Georges’ strength and conditioning tutor is Jonathan Chaimberg of Adrenaline Performance Center in Montreal. Georges’ Head Trainer is Firas Zahabi of Zahabi MMA, from the Tristar gym. The pair have cornered all of St-Pierre’s most recent fights and stay as his close friends. Presently, St-Pierre studies Muay Thai under Phil Nurse at the Wat in The Big Apple .

St-Pierre always dreamed of becoming a Ultimate fighting championship champ since viewing Royce Gracie fight in 1993 at UFC 1. St-Pierre had his first unpaid bout when he was only 16 years of age. He said, “After i won my first amateur (MMA) fight, I was 16 years old and I defeated a guy which was 25. I was merely a Kyokushin karate fighter and also the guy I fought was a boxer. At that point my ground skills weren’t the best , I had no idea about ground work .” St-Pierre won his fight by knockout , going low with several leg kicks and then going high with a kick to the head.

St-Pierre’s pro debut was against Branden Macfadden and the fight finished in a first round to-knockout win by St-Pierre. In his second fight, St-Pierre’s challenge for the UCC belt against Justin Bruckmann. He won by an arm bar in the first round. He then went on and defended his title two more times . The UCC aka worldwide Combat Challenge ended up being born-again to TKO Major League MMA and the man was known as the champion. He fought on November 29, 2003 against Pete Spratt in a non-title bout at TKO 14. St-Pierre defeated Spratt with a rear naked choke in the very first round. Following his second win in the Ultimate fighting championship , he faced Matt Hughes at Ultimate fighting championship 50 for the vacant UFC Welterweight Championship. Despite a aggressive performance against the a lot more experienced fighter, St-Pierre tapped out to an armbar submission with just one second remaining in the very first round. This was his fist loss of St-Pierre’s career and he has since said that he was in awe of Hughes commencing the title bout. Since then he’s become one of the best pound for pound fighters on the planet.

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