JRE MMA Show #28 with Georges St-Pierre

Georges St-Pierre (0:03)

Going to the contender after Freddie Roach.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

Oh, really? Nice.

Live?

SPEAKER_3 (0:10)

Boom.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

We're live. You want to wear headphones or no? Yeah.

Georges St-Pierre (0:12)

It's better like this, right?

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Do you wear, are your cauliflower ears, they keep you from wearing ear buds?

Georges St-Pierre (0:17)

Uh.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

You know, those little things that go in your ear?

Georges St-Pierre (0:20)

Does I need to? No, I don't need it.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

You don't need it. You don't have to. I don't have to.

Just keep this close to your face, and we're good.

Georges St-Pierre (0:27)

All right.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

There we go. Thank you.

What's up, man? How are you?

Georges St-Pierre (0:30)

Fantastic.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

You look good.

Georges St-Pierre (0:32)

I feel good. If it would not be for my ulcer that I had, I would feel better than when I was 25

Joe Rogan (0:41)

What did you have? You had colitis?

Georges St-Pierre (0:42)

Yeah, colitis, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

What is that? What causes that?

Georges St-Pierre (0:46)

We don't really know what causes it, but the best theory is that before my last fight with Michael Bisping, I tried to put on weight, extra weight. So I followed a diet program that I was eating every almost every two hours.

And I think your system is like a car. If you do a lot of mileage, it overuse it, and so that's what happened with the stress and everything. During my training camp, I had a big problem. I couldn't sleep. I had crazy cramps sometimes, and I had blood even when I went to the bathroom at one point. I had to go do some tests because I was worried that it was something more like, I mean, it's colitis is very serious, but that it was like cancer or something because it had blood.

So I did some tests. It came out negative. And I said to myself, I said, this fight being delayed, not delayed, but postponed so many times that if I do something, if I say that publicly, what is going on, I'm going to lose the opportunity to fight for the title at 185 So I keep it shut.

And I told myself, I said, whatever it is, I'll deal with it after the fight. So I did the fight. Everything went well. Then after I went to do, it's called colonoscopy, they put a camera inside of you.

And I got diagnosed with also colitis. But that's probably the mix of the stress and also the fact that I was constantly eating. I was eating and not only eating, Joe, I was trying to put on some weight. It was very hard. Sometimes I was, I remember many times I was having breakfast, but I was regurgitating my breakfast, like chewing up.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

Because you were just eating too much food.

Georges St-Pierre (2:27)

Yeah, but I had to because I needed to keep myself in a certain weight.

And the crazy thing about it is, first now I realize it's a mistake. I should never have done it. But when I made the weight at 185, the day before the fight, I could not go back up to 190 That's the highest I was going back up. So the day of the fight, I woke up and I had a little breakfast, I chew up my breakfast again.

Yeah, I was really messed up. Then I went to weigh myself. I was like 190 Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

And what do you think Mike weighed?

Georges St-Pierre (3:04)

He felt very strong. I mean, it's not really the weight at this time, because the way that you weigh right now, depending what you eat, you have a lot of stuff inside your your your intestine and everything. So you and also water retention, I felt like I had a lot of water retention and unnecessary weight.

Exactly. So it's like that way. It's like a bag that you carry on your shoulder. So what I should have done, I think, is just stay the same way that I am a natural weight. I think the body has a way that it's best way to perform an athletic performance, and that's what I should have done.

But it was a mistake of my part. It was a big mistake.

Joe Rogan (3:42)

So you were just thinking that because you're going up to 185 and you're fighting a guy in Bisping that used to fight at 205, he's a pretty big guy.

Georges St-Pierre (3:49)

Exactly. I thought that to perform better, I needed to elevate my weight, but by doing that, I create a big problem of health issues.