George St Peirre 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 rough upbringing , attending a school where others would steal his clothing and money. He started learning Kyokushin karate at the early age of seven by his father and later by a Kyokushin Karate Master to help protect himself against a bully at school , Nikolas Mavrikos.
He took up wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu later when his Karate instructer 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 in the South Shore named Fuzzy Brossard and as a garbageman for six months to pay for his school fees and to buy his MMA gear such as his MMA Shorts and MMA Gloves
St-Pierre has trained with a wide variety of peoplein a large selection of gyms throught his MMA career . Prior to his fight with B.J. Penn at UFC 58, he trained at the Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in New York City. St-Pierre received 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 under Bruno Fernandes.
St-Pierre started training with Rashad Evans, Nathan Marquardt, Keith Jardine, Donald Cerrone, and other skilled MMA champions at Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting Gaidojutsu school in New Mexico. Some of Jackson’s students accompanied St-Pierre to Montreal to help prepare him for his fight at UFC 94 against B.J. Penn at the Tristar Gym, including Keith Jardine, Nathan Marquardt, Donald Cerrone and Rashad Evans. Georges’ intensity level and conditioning private instructor is Jonathan Chaimberg of Adrenaline Routine Centre in Montral. Georges’ Head Trainer is Firas Zahabi of Zahabi MMA, out of the Tristar gym. The two have cornered all of St-Pierre’s most recent bouts and stay as his tight friends. Currently, St-Pierre trains in Muay Thai under Phil Nurse at the Wat in The Huge Apple .
St-Pierre had dreamed of becoming a UFC champion since watching Royce Gracie fight in 1993 at UFC 1. St-Pierre had his first amateur bout when he was only 16 years ancient. He said, “When I won my first amateur (MMA) fight, I was 16 years ancient and I beat a guy that was 25. I was only a Kyokushin karate fighter and the guy I fought was a boxer. At that point my ground skilles weren’t the best , I didn’t know anything on the ground .” St-Pierre won his fight by KO , going low with several leg kicks and then going high with a kick to the head.
St-Pierre’s pro first appearance was against Branden Macfadden and the fight finished in a first round to-knockout win by St-Pierre. In only 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 Universal Combat Challenge was then born-again to TKO Major League MMA and he was called the champion. He fought on November 29, 2003 against Pete Spratt in a non-title bout at TKO 14. St-Pierre thwarted Spratt with a rear naked choke in the first round. Following his second win in the UFC, he faced Matt Hughes at UFC 50 for the vacant UFC Welterweight Championship. Despite a competitive routine against the much more experienced fighter, St-Pierre tapped out to an armbar submission with only 1 second remaining in the first round. This was his fist loss of St-Pierre’s career and he has since said that he was in awe of Hughes going into the championship bout. Since then he has become one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world. He gets paid by sponsors to have their logo on his MMA Shorts
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