subject: Gsp And His Mma Career [print this page] Georges St-Pierre was born May 19, 1981 in Saint-Isidore, Quebec, to Jim and Louise St-Pierre. St-Pierre had a rough upbringing , tending a school where others would steal his clothing and money. He started learning Kyokushin karate at age seven by his father and later by a Kyokushin Karate Master to defend himself against a school bully , Nikolas Mavrikos.
He took up wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu after wards his karate teacher died and also trained in boxing . Before turning pro as a mixed-martial artist, St-Pierre worked as a bouncer at a Montreal night club within the South Shore known as Fuzzy Brossard and as a garbageman for 6 months to pay for his school fees and also to obtain his Mixed martial arts gear such as his Mixed martial arts Shorts and MMA Gloves
St-Pierre has trained with a number of groups in a large variety of gyms throughout his fighting career . Ahead of his battle with B.J. Penn at UFC 58, he trained at the Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in New York City. St-Pierre obtained 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 below Bruno Fernandes.
St-Pierre started training with Rashad Evans, Nathan Marquardt, Keith Jardine, Donald Cerrone, and other experienced Mixed martial arts scrappers at Greg Jackson's Submission Fighting Gaidojutsu school in New Mexico. Some of Jackson's students attended St-Pierre to Montreal to help prepare him for his fight at Ultimate fighting championship 94 against B.J. Penn in the Tristar Gym, including Keith Jardine, Nathan Marquardt, Donald Cerrone and Rashad Evans. Georges' intensity and conditioning coach is Jonathan Chaimberg of Adrenaline Performance Centre in Montral. Georges' Head Trainer is Firas Zahabi of Zahabi Mixed martial arts, from the Tristar gym. The pair have cornered all of St-Pierre's latest fights and continue as his close friends. Currently, St-Pierre trains in Muay Thai under Phil Nurse at the Wat in NY City .
St-Pierre always dreamed of becoming a Ultimate fighting championship champ since viewing Royce Gracie fight in 1993 at UFC 1. St-Pierre had his first unpaid bout when he was only 16 years of age. He said, "After i won my first amateur (MMA) fight, I was 16 years old and I defeated a guy which was 25. I was merely a Kyokushin karate fighter and also the guy I fought was a boxer. At that point my ground skills weren't the best , I had no idea about ground work ." St-Pierre won his fight by knockout , going low with several leg kicks and then going high with a kick to the head.
St-Pierre's pro debut was against Branden Macfadden and the fight finished in a first round to-knockout win by St-Pierre. In 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 worldwide Combat Challenge ended up being born-again to TKO Major League MMA and the man was known as the champion. He fought on November 29, 2003 against Pete Spratt in a non-title bout at TKO 14. St-Pierre defeated Spratt with a rear naked choke in the very first round. Following his second win in the Ultimate fighting championship , he faced Matt Hughes at Ultimate fighting championship 50 for the vacant UFC Welterweight Championship. Despite a aggressive performance against the a lot more experienced fighter, St-Pierre tapped out to an armbar submission with just one second remaining in the very first round. This was his fist loss of St-Pierre's career and he has since said that he was in awe of Hughes commencing the title bout. Since then he's become one of the best pound for pound fighters on the planet.
