Georges St-Pierre

In late 2007, Georges St. Pierre was preparing for the Olympic trials in hopes of making the Canadian wrestling team when he got a call from the UFC asking him to take an injured Matt Serra ’s place against Matt Hughes . By accepting the fight, he put his dream of competing in the Olympics on hold.

UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre says he may take a crack at making the Canadian Olympic wrestling team for the 2012 Summer Games.

UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre says he may take a crack at making the Canadian Olympic wrestling team for the 2012 Summer Games.

A first for Under Armour. The Baltimore-based apparel-maker has inked a deal Mixed Martial Artist, Georges St. Pierre.

UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre has signed a multi-year endorsement deal with performance apparel leader Under Armour, the company announced Thursday.

When Dan (The Outlaw) Hardy takes on Mike (Quick) Swick next week at UFC 105 in Manchester, England, the most interested observer cageside will be Canadian Georges St. Pierre.

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By Joe Ferraro With all five of the UFC Champions appearing to be unbeatable in the near future, the UFC finds itself in a difficult predicament as to who deserves a title within their respective division. BJ Penn, Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida and Brock Lesnar are the K...

David Beckham, Derek Jeter, LeBron James, LaDainian Tomlinson, Sidney Crosby, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Hawk. Add UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre to the all-star crew in the CAA Sports talent pool.

On Saturday in Dallas, Texas, UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre hoped to learn the name of his next challenger.

Three letters GSP. Georges St Pierre has teared through all the competition in the welterweight division in relitively easy fashion, even after the UFC ...

A much talked about "superfight" between UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva and UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is no longer on the ... KELLER BLOG: Five reasons Dana White is right to avoid GSP vs ...MMATorch all 5 news articles »

MMA Waves “Our goal would be to have George St. Pierre fight here in June,” said UFC executive Lawrence Epstein. It really is no surprise that GSP is the name that ... Georges St. Pierre may be coming to Vancouver in June 2010 if the ...24 Hours Vancouver

Anderson Silva vs?? will be the other title fight in January and BJ Penn will fight in February. Heavyweight title at UFC 106 and Light Heavyweight at UFC ... Still Recovering from Injury, Georges St. Pierre Likely to Return ...FanHouse Georges St. Pierre Likely to Defend His UFC Title Against Winn...

If Penn starts training year round, like Georges St-Pierre, and clears out his own division, we might see GSP-Penn III sooner than we expected. BJ Penn interview from the Hawaii TribuneExaminer.com all 3 news articles »

In stores now you will find Georges St. Pierre on the lastest cover of Canada fitness mag "Inside Fitness". Prior to his showdown this weekend St. Pierre goes dons the August/September '09 issue which features an exclusive block of training coverage for the sport of MMA , which includes St-P...

 MN TOP FIGHTER: Georges St. Pierre. With so many top fighters, this isn't an easy choice, but since Rashad Evans lost his light-heavyweight belt to Lyoto Machida, GSP is the only Jackson fighter currently with a UFC title. St. Pierre is considered a ...

Could Jon Fitch take the UFC Welterweight title from Georges St. Pierre? The main event of this DVD was hardly a classic, but it was a good fight that cemented GSP’s status as the number one welterweight in the world. Controlling the ground well, ...

By Section 233 GSP has a very intriguing fight with Thiago Alves.  Alves is a big welterweight, so it could force a change of strategy for St-Pierre, not to mention Alves is a dangerous striker.  GSP should win the fight when you factor in that he seems to improve with every fight, and is more well rounded.  If...

By MMAmania – Anthony Johnson — winner of four of six inside the Octagon — tells Steve Cofield that he still needs work to compete with the best in the world at 170-pounds, UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre. “Rumble” is fresh of a technical knockout of Luigi Fioravanti at UFC Fight Night 17: “L...

By Eric Shapiro While Penn’s loss has understandably damaged his ego along with his face, it will however help to keep him an active competitor for at least the here and now. The biggest difference between someone like BJ Penn and Georges St. Pierre is not physique or nationality, but something much more in...

By Steve Cofield St. Pierre is thrilled that he smashed Penn into submission. The lightweight champ was unable to come out for the fifth round at Saturday's fight: GSP says he's lost respect for Penn with all the post-fight chatter about cheating: Click below to hear St. Pierre (MMAWeekly.com w/Damon Mart...

By Jon Pantera The legal team that represents lightweight champion BJ Penn, four days removed from the TKO loss to welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre at UFC 94 on Jan. 31, sent a formal request today to the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).

By Dave Sholler In one of the most dominating performances of his career, welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre retained his title at UFC 94 last Saturday by soundly defeating lightweight champion BJ Penn. GSP IS A BAD MAN… EVANS SHOULD FEAR MACHIDA HIS NAME IS JON JONES…

By Eric Shapiro Clay Guida might only have tenacity and wrestling on his side, but it seems to be more than enough against what I would consider very solid competition in Nate Diaz. It’s likely he will never become our lightweight champion, but it’s also easy to see why someone like Guida always has a home in...

By Ivan Trembow(noreply@blogger.com) Mixed Martial Arts--- UFC 94 Thoughts by Ivan Trembow Machida is long overdue for a title shot and he absolutely deserves to get the next shot at Rashad Evans' belt, not the winner of the upcoming fight between Quinton Jackson and Keith Jardine.

By James Iannotti Former welterweight number one contender Jon Fitch was relegated to the undercard for his first fight back since his unanimous decision loss to Georges St. Pierre back at UFC 87 in August. He dominated his way to a unanimous decision victory over the charismatic cross-dresser Akhiro Gono.

By Josh Nason Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre defeated Lightweight BJ Penn via fourth round TKO (ref stoppage): While the build had everyone thinking this would be the greatest fight in UFC history, St. Pierre ensured that this would forever be known as a one-sided affair that crowned GSP as t...

By John Shubert Matt Arroyo v. Dan Cramer: Cramer def. Arroyo by split decision. I was way off on this fight. John Howard v. Chris Wilson: Howard wins by split decision. I got this fight wrong. Fight of the night went to Guida/Diaz and Howard/Wilson. KO of the night went to Machida. There obviously was no submission o...

By Josh Nason Knockout Of The Night went to Lyoto Machida for his at-the-bell KO of Thiago Silva, earning him an extra $65k. UFC President Dana White didn't have anything to add at the press conference, other than "If a guy was intentionally putting Vaseline on a guy's back, he should never corner a mixed...

By Josh Nason So, it's finally here: the mega fight of all mega fights (at least until the next bout that gains public interest). The Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre battles the Lightweight Champion BJ Penn Saturday night—a fight that UFC President Dana White thinks it will be the biggest PPV d...

By Eric Shapiro Welterweight Title Bout Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn Prediction: St. Pierre via TKO, Round 5. Lyoto Machida vs. Thiago Silva Prediction: Machida via unanimous decision Jon Fitch vs. Akihiro Gono Fitch via TKO, round 1. Stephan Bonnar vs. Jon Jones Prediction: Bonnar via submission, Round 3.

By LBo GEORGES ST. PIERRE: What he came back with shocked everyone. Out of nowhere the Van-Damme "Kickboxer" GSP had been replaced by a fighter who would lock horns with the best pedigreed wrestlers in the wrestler-heavy welterweight division, take them down and beat them at their own game. Hughe...

By noreply@blogger.com (D Wizzle) I think BJ is a better fighter and more technical than Georges, but then again I think that Georges is a better athlete than BJ,and I think Georges is gonna be to strong for BJ at 170 pounds. If they fought at 155 pounds, I would have put all my money on BJ!

By ben BG: In a perfect world, BJ Penn would have a tune-up fight at welterweight before taking on Georges St. Pierre. After all, Penn hasn’t won a match as a 170-pounder since May 2004, and it would be helpful to test out the new weight at least once before putting his legacy on the line. I think your obs...

Wrestling The best takedowns and takedown defence at welterweight match up in this fight. GSP has become legendary for his swift shots that have planted exceptional wrestlers such as Jon Fitch, Matt Hughes, Josh Koscheck, Sean Sherk and even BJ Penn on their back. We would have guessed Kos...

By Larry Vollmer He is nick named “The Saint” and he is probably the only fighter who holds a 12 second knockout in the UFC and is not impressed with it. Rob Emerson is a tough , scrappy fighter who earned his spot in the UFC by way of “The Ultimate Fighter 5”. Emerson has proved to be very resilient, and, although h...

By Dave Sholler BJ Penn has all of the talent to be considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. If he sticks to these keys at UFC 94, he may just prove it. In a rematch of their highly controversial 2006 clash, lightweight champion BJ Penn moves up to 170 pounds to challenge welterweight titleho...

By "Mr. NC-17" Georges St. Pierre lost his championship gold to a huge underdog in Matt Serra in April of 2007 at UFC 69: Shootout. Since then, Georges went to win a clear cut decision against Josh Koscheck, and a pure destruction victory over former welterweight champion and future UFC Hall of Famer Matt H...

Rich Franklin is officially staying at light heavyweight. B.J. Penn will not be allowed to move up to middleweight, even if he beats Georges St. Pierre. GSP will be fighting Thiago Alves (if GSP beats Penn) before getting a chance at a superfight with Anderson Silva.

By Mark Chalifoux Rich Franklin is officially staying at light heavyweight. B.J. Penn will not be allowed to move up to middleweight, even if he beats Georges St. Pierre. GSP will be fighting Thiago Alves (if GSP beats Penn) before getting a chance at a superfight with Anderson Silva.

By moushiwake@gmail.com via Blogdigger blog search for "Georges St Pierre" (GSP OR "UFC 94" OR UFC OR Pierre OR "BJ Penn" OR MMA OR BJ OR "Matt Hughes" OR "B.J. Penn" OR octagon).

By gorgeousgeorge@taggradio.com (Gorgeous George) March 20, 2008 - UFC Welterweight Champion, Matt Serra, was our guest today. Always a fun time with Matt as he talked about his upcoming title defense vs GSP, his schools, his back injury, etc. Elvis Johnson closed out the show with his "Entertainment Report."

By Irie Rujah The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC for those not hip to the lingo) failed to make a dent on any mainstream sports outlet over the holiday weekend. Georges St. Pierre def. Matt Hughes via Submission (Round 2: 4:54) Chuck Liddell def. Wanderlei Silva via unanimous decision

By Irie Rujah Eddie Sanchez def. Soa Palalei via TKO - Round 3, 3:24 Lyoto Machida def. Rameau Sokoudjou via submission - Round 2, 4:20 Dean Lister def. Jordan Radev via unanimous decision Roan Carneiro def. Tony DeSouza via TKO - Round 2, 3:30 Mark Bocek def. Doug Evans via unanimous decision

By Dave Meltzer LAS VEGAS — The Georges St. Pierre-Matt Hughes rivalry tells the story of the evolution of the sport of mixed martial arts, with St. Pierre winning match three of the series Saturday night basically the exact same way he lost match one.

By Sam Caplan Here's a recap of some of the more newsworthy items that were discussed: Georges St. Pierre came off very well during the initial portion of the call. He said all the right things by giving Matt Serra his just due (just like he did immediately after UFC 69) and saying that we wouldn't be seeing t...

By Sam Caplan Neil Davidson of the Canadian Press has a good article on Georges St. Pierre that features a lot of quotes from GSP. Apparently, GSP was dealing with some personal issues leading up to his unsuccessful welterweight title defense against Matt Serra at UFC:

By Sam Caplan Prior to UFC 69, UFC president Dana White went into Don West-mode (pre-TNA wrestling) and gave us the hard sell on GSP, proclaiming him one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world. I bought into it, and I know a lot of you did as well.

UFC welterweight No. 1 contender Georges St. Pierre and The Ultimate Fighter 4 middleweight winner Travis Lutter join Beatdown"s St. Pierre met Matt Hughes in October of 2004 at UFC 50. The French-Canadian fighter was fairly new to the sport and had never