Thursday, July 27, 2006

Goerges St. Pierre vs. Matt Hughes

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

UFC 56: Georges St Pierre vs Sean Sherk

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Monday, July 24, 2006

Fighter has big plans

St. Pierre eyes welterweight title and potential bout up north
By JOSE RODRIGUEZ -- Calgary Sun
SLAM! Sports, Canada - 22 Jul 2006

First, he wants to bring the belt back to Canada.

Next: The entire Ultimate Fighting Championship.

"If I win in September, I will do whatever I can to have my first title defence in Canada," said Montreal's Georges St.Pierre, who will face the seemingly unbeatable Matt Hughes in a rematch for the UFC welterweight belt Sept. 23 in Anaheim.

"Canadians are great mixed-martial arts fans who have always supported me. I think it would be my way of giving something back to them."

The plan is not out of the realm of possibility. UFC president Dana White has been scouting Canadian locales for a potential future card.

But before St. Pierre starts his campaign to bring the world's most popular fight league to the Great White North, he has a monumental obstacle in Matt Hughes.

In their first scrap in October 2004, St. Pierre made a respectable showing against the powerful veteran only to fall victim to a Hughes armbar with one second left in the first round.

"When I fought him the first time, I was a kid, now I'm a man," said St. Pierre.

"I gave him too much respect. He was the greatest champion in mixed-martial arts. I lost that fight before it started because I was in there to survive and look good, not to beat him."

St. Pierre said he's not haunted by the fact he tapped out with one second left in the round.

"The fact I lost that fight is the best thing that ever happened to me," said the 25-year-old, who would become the second Canadian to own the UFC welterweight belt. Toronto's Carlos Newton, now fighting in Japan, was champ before Hughes.

"Mentally I'm a lot more ready for him because of it."

Since that day, St. Pierre hasn't lost a fight. His profile has grown to rival Hughes' and he will play a prominent role in the upcoming season of the UFC reality show The Ultimate Fighter.

Hughes, meanwhile, has gone on to defend his belt and guaranteed himself a spot in the UFC Hall of Fame by defeating mixed-martial arts legend Royce Gracie earlier this year.

St. Pierre said he's not only more prepared mentally for Hughes, he's also added more tools to his toolbox, having received his brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu from teacher Renzo Gracie last Friday.

Still, the gentlemanly St. Pierre said he has a lot of respect for Hughes.

"He's like the Wayne Gretzky of mixed-martial arts," he said.

"But even Wayne Gretzky's not perfect. He can make mistakes. Matt Hughes is beatable and I will prove it in September."


Friday, July 21, 2006

UFC 48: Georges St. Pierre vs. Jay Hieron


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Thursday, July 20, 2006

St. Pierre attracts a crowd

When ultimate fighter Georges "Rush" St. Pierre enters a gym, you make way.

More than 50 mixed martial artists, kickboxers and wrestlers alike stepped back to welcome the Canadian UFC welterweight champion and coach of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter, which is entering its fourth season. The 25-year-old from St. Isidore, Quebec, was in the city to give a four-hour clinic.

"He's a guy who is going to become the next (world) welterweight champion of the UFC," said Mark Henry, sensei at Brockville's Impact Zone Martial Arts Centre, the club which hosted St. Pierre's visit.

"If we had had any more people (for the clinic), we would have had to find a bigger venue," Henry said of the turnout from clubs from throughout eastern Ontario that packed the Brockville Gymnastics Academy.

"He's the number one guy in Canada," said Brockville Ontario Kickboxing Institute coach Mark Johnson, who brought five of his fighters to get some hands-on training with the popular ultimate fighter.

"Georges has set himself apart because he beat B.J. Penn," added Johnson of St. Pierre's win over the American fighter, known as The Prodigy, earlier this year.

St. Pierre fit the Brockville visit in after wrapping up filming in Las Vegas of The Ultimate Fighter and before he begins training for his next fight.

St. Pierre will fight Matt Hughes for the world welterweight title on September 23 in Anaheim, California. He enters the match with a mixed martial arts record of 13-1-0, along with a knockout record of five and a submission tally of four.

The Quebec fighter, who stands five-feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds, is a Canadian Jiu-Jitsu champion, a TKO world and TKO Canadian welterweight champion. St. Pierre is featured in this summer's edition of Uum magazine in an article which takes note of the fighter's "meteoric and well-deserved rise to the top."

On Saturday, however, St. Pierre provided instruction to others interested in the sport. He travels throughout the country helping promote mixed martial arts.

"We're all here to help each other," St. Pierre told the group.

He began by showing students warmup techniques and moved into holds and takedowns.
"He's my favourite fighter. He's a great athlete," said Kingston's Tyler Hopkins, who has been boxing about three years.

"He makes it pretty easy to understand," said Hopkins, who was one of many participants St. Pierre called up to give hands-on instruction in fighting and defensive techniques.

Sporting a fleur-de-lys tattoo on his right calf, St. Pierre won over the crowd with his easy-going style and his ability to convey techniques in simple terms.

"He knows his stuff," said Heather Montrose, a third-level teacher under lead instructor Stan Chisholm at Kingston Martial Concepts.

"A lot of information was covered," said Henry, adding he plans to invite St. Pierre back to Brockville for a follow-up session. "The next time he comes back, hopefully he'll be a world champion."

By DEANNA CLARK - Published in Section B, page 1 in the Monday, July 17, 2006 edition of the Brockville Recorder & Times.

Montreal's St. Pierre earns rematch with Hughes at UFC 63 in Anaheim

As a fresh-faced fighter in 2004, Montreal's Georges St. Pierre started strongly but was eventually overwhelmed in a first-round submission loss to Matt Hughes.

Nearly two years later, the 25-year-old mixed martial arts fighter known as "Rush" hopes to show Hughes how much he's learned - by taking away his UFC welterweight title.

"I think I will beat him, because I truly believe that I am a better fighter than him," St. Pierre said Monday from New York. "I'm not a rookie any more. I know what to expect, and I'm not worried at all."

St. Pierre will battle the 32-year-old American for the title at UFC 63: Hughes vs. St. Pierre, on Sept. 23 at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, Calif.

"I hope he's ready," Hughes (41-4-0) said from Bristol, Conn., where the fight was announced. "No one has been able to stop me yet, and I don't see myself giving up the belt any time soon. I'm looking forward to a good fight, but I will still be the UFC welterweight champion."

Their previous match at UFC 50: The War of '04 lasted just four minutes 59 seconds. Hughes, defending his title for the second time since reclaiming it, locked an armbar on St. Pierre (12-1-0), forcing the Canadian to tap out with just one second left in the first round.

St. Pierre says he won't make the same mistake this time.

"I think I'm a lot better than I was when I fought him the first time, and I sure don't forget about what he did to me the first time," said St. Pierre, one of the co-trainers for the reality show The Ultimate Fighter 4 which begins airing Aug. 17 on Spike TV.

"I've improved everything. I'm getting a lot better."

Since the loss to Hughes - his first in the Octagon - the Canadian has won his last four bouts, including a split decision over B.J. Penn - the man that ended Hughes' first title run at UFC 46: Supernatural.

"He's very well-rounded," Hughes said of St. Pierre. "Me having the wrestling background, I've always had that going for me. But Georges is well-rounded, he can fight everywhere.

"This could be one of those fights that could go 30 seconds, or it could go 25 minutes."
Hughes is coming off an impressive win over Royce Gracie.

"Every fighter has a toolbox, and right now mine is full," he said. "I have a lot of things that I can do, I have a lot of ways I can win. And Georges has a very full toolbox as well."

Should St. Pierre win the bout, his profile would soar even higher - which should benefit Canadian UFC fans. The rapidly growing organization has yet to host a pay-per-view card north of the border, but St. Pierre believes that might change if he beats Hughes.

"I think if I become champion, I'm going to try to put some pressure on (UFC) to put a card in Canada," said St. Pierre. "I'm going to try to make it happen. I'd love to fight in front of a Canadian crowd."

Notes: A second fight has been added to UFC 62: Liddell vs. Sobral, set for Aug. 26 at Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas. Forrest Griffin, winner of the original The Ultimate Fighter series, will battle Stephan Bonnar in a rematch of their entertaining TUF 1 showdown. The main event features Chuck (The Iceman) Liddell defending his light-heavyweight crown against Renato (Babalu) Sobral.

(Source: Canoe.ca)