Georges St-Pierre, UFC Legend and Two Division Champion

Georges St-Pierre (0:00)

When you want to be champion or the best at something, you need to be more than dedicated to this thing. You need to be obsessed. And I'm talking about being the best in the world at something. You need to be obsessed by it. You need to dream about it, to think about it, to breathe it, to eat it. Every time you have a second, you need to think about it.

And that's how I always was during my career.

Michael Gervais (0:37)

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Okay, this week's conversation is with Georges St. Pierre. He's also known as GSP in the MMA Mixed Martial Artist World or the UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship. And he's from Canada, a professional MMA artist, and he's a world champion in two different weight classes. Extraordinary. And he holds black belts in both Kyokushin Karate and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. And Georges is recognized as one of the planet's best pound for pound MMA fighters and all around flat out athlete. He retired from the sport in December of 2013, holding the UFC record for the most wins in title bouts.

And then he took a four year hiatus, from elite sport to take a four year hiatus is incredible. So then he comes back to the Octagon, back to the UFC in November 2017 He fought in New York City where he defeated Michael Brisbane and he did it by submission in the third round to win the UFC middleweight championship title. And that's where he becomes the fourth fighter in the history of the organization, in the history of the sport, to be a multi-division champion. Then a month later, after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, Georges vacated the UFC middleweight title and officially announced his retirement from the sport February in 2019, just a few months ago.