Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian former professional mixed martial artist. He is a three-time former UFC Welterweight Champion, having won the title twice and the interim title once between November 2006 and April 2008. He retired in December 2013, having held the record for most wins in title bouts and the second longest combined title streak in UFC history. He returned to the Octagon in November 2017 at UFC 217, when he defeated Michael Bisping by submission to win the Middleweight title.
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Georges St-Pierre (born May 19, 1981) is a Canadian former professional mixed martial artist. He is a three-time former UFC Welterweight Champion, having won the title twice and the interim title once between November 2006 and April 2008. He retired in December 2013, having held the record for most wins in title bouts and the second longest combined title streak in UFC history. He returned to the Octagon in November 2017 at UFC 217, when he defeated Michael Bisping by submission to win the Middleweight title, thus becoming the fourth fighter in the history of the UFC to be a multi-division champion. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 he was named the Canadian Athlete of the Year by Rogers Sportsnet. Fight Matrix lists him as the top MMA welterweight of all time and most accomplished fighter in MMA history. As a youth St- Pierre was inspired by Jean-Claude Van Damme, and described fighting him in the film Kickboxer: Vengeance as “a dream come true” He has trained with Rashad Evans, Nathan Marquardt, Keith Jardine, Donald Cerrone and other mixed martial arts fighters at Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting Gaidojutsu school in New Mexico. His head trainer is Firas Zahabi of Zahabi MMA, out of the Tristar gym in Montréal. He has a close relationship with fellow former UFC welterweights, including Jason Miller and RashadEvans, who have cornered all of his most recent bouts and remain as his close friends.
He also trained with B. J. Penn at the Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in New York City before his fight at UFC 94 against B.J. Penn. His first professional fight was at age 20. He began learning Kyokushin Karate at age 12, and received his brown belt in BJJ on July 21, 2006. His next fight in the UFC was against Jay Hieron at UFC 48 for the UFC 50 for the Welter Weight Championship. He defeated him via technical knockout in only 1: 42 of the first round. St-Georges defeated Matt Hughes at UFC 50 in the second fight in his UFC career. He then lost to Jason Miller at UFC 52 by unanimous decision. He rebounded with a win over Dave Strasser at UFC 53. StPierre then matched up against top contender Jason Miller, who he beat by a first-round kimura armbar. He lost to him again at UFC 55 by a second-round submission. He was ranked as the #1 welterwood in the world for several years by Sherdog and numerous other publications. He went on to win titles in the middleweight and welter weight divisions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. His last fight was against highly ranked Karo Parisyan at UFC 46, where he defeated highlyranked KaroParisyan by a unanimous decision. He then defeated highly ranked Kara Parisyan by unanimous decision at UFC 57.
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