The Striking Truth Preview

"This is a sample clip from a documentary entitled "The Striking Truth" starring Georges St-Pierre and David Loiseau, produced by Steven J. Wong of Qi Productions inc. Anticipated release for 2009."

UFC 83 - GSP Afterparty pictures!

Combat Lifestyles (2008-04-20) - "UFC: Montreal Afterpartying Sunday - Made it out to check out the nightlife in Montreal and so did a bunch of the fighters. We went to Opera Nightclub, and With chants for GSP and Michael Bisping, the vibe was insane!! We shut the club down and then hit Mcdonalds for a late night snack."

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St. Pierre Talks Win Over Serra

By Andy Cotterill
4/22/2008

Newly crowned UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre (Pictures) spoke exclusively with Sherdog.com the day after his impressive second-round TKO over Matt Serra (Pictures) at UFC 83. With the win, St. Pierre reclaimed the belt that Serra had taken from him in his first title defense in April 2007.

"Yesterday was the most beautiful day of my life," St. Pierre said, his voice still raspy and full of happiness. "Everything worked out perfectly, and it is a dream come true."

To get the win, St. Pierre employed a very solid wrestling game that allowed him to stay on top of Serra and punish him with countless hard knees to the body. The style contrasted greatly to the standup that Serra had used so successfully the first time. Was St. Pierre worried the few times that Serra got back to his feet?

"No, I was in perfect control," he said. "My plan was to mix it up with him -- up and down and up and down to get him tired."

There had been some bad blood in the buildup to the bout, but after the win St. Pierre, now 16-2, was quick to praise his opponent. In fact, he pleaded with the Montreal crowd to treat Serra like a gentleman. St. Pierre acknowledged that any animosity that may have existed is now gone.

"He's not a friend because I would never fight a friend," St. Pierre said. "He's an acquaintance. How do you say … a ‘buddy.' Somebody that I respect in the sport."

St. Pierre was also very thankful to the Montreal crowd, whom he called the "noisiest I had ever heard in my life." During the pre-fight warm-up, he couldn't hear the crowd because he was deep within the bowels of the Bell Centre. However, St. Pierre said he felt the trembling in the walls.

"The place was shaking," he remarked.

Surprising perhaps to those who think fighters live like rock stars, St. Pierre only spent a short time at his after-party. The 26-year-old Quebecer's real celebration? A meal at McDonalds and an early trip to bed.

"That's because the stress of the fight makes you tired," he said.
Most followers of MMA agree that contender Jon Fitch will likely get the first crack at St. Pierre, followed possibly by Thiago Alves, but only UFC brass knows who will be the Canadian's next foe. If the decision has already been made, St. Pierre doesn't want to know.

"They are both tough fighters, and I don't know yet," he said. "And I don't even want to know until one week, at least."

In the meantime, St. Pierre jetted to the Bahamas Sunday evening for four days in the surf and sun with friends and family. After that it's back to the gym, where he'll help Keith Jardine get ready for his May 24 meeting with Wanderlei Silva in Las Vegas.

Is that too little time to relax after such a lengthy training session and a big fight?

"My friend," St. Pierre said, "that's what I like to do with my life."



(Sherdog.com - Combat Lifestyle)

GSP in YA Magazine

http://yamagazine.ca/

St. Pierre dominates in Montreal

STEPHEN BRUNT
April 20, 2008 at 12:45 AM EDT

MONTREAL — Talk about your two solitudes.

In early hours of the evening, the streets of downtown Montreal were eerily silent as the city suffered through the agony-ecstasy-agony of the Canadiens 5-4 playoff loss to the Boston Bruins. At home, in the bars, in restaurants where they wouldn't normally let the din of television interfere with fine dining, it was all about the Habs.

Except in the place that they normally call home.

Inside the Bell Centre, where the Ultimate Fighting Championship was making its long-awaited Canadian debut, no hockey scores were mentioned, no highlights were shown on the big screens, no hints of the outside sports world crept in, no concession was made to the historic local obsession — and the truth is, no one seemed to be complaining.

For the 21,000 who filled the place, the largest live crowd in UFC history, this was the national coming out party for the sport of mixed martial arts, and those who care about the multi-discipline fight game care about it a great deal.

They had come here from all across the country and beyond, and have been just as easy to spot this weekend as Canadiens' fans decked out in the blue, blanc et rouge. Their uniform is nearly as distinctive: young men with shaved heads, tattooed arms, muscled up bods in tight t-shirts decorated in aggressive slogans.

It might not be fully mainstream yet, but don't dare call it a cult sport — unless you're willing to acknowledge that this is one very large, and growing cult.

The focus of the night was local hero George St. Pierre, and unlike the Habs he didn't disappoint.

Making his entrance for the main event, a welterweight title rematch with American Matt Serra, St. Pierre was greeted as ecstatically as any of the great boxing champions who have made Montreal their home. With the crowd alternating between deafening chants of "GSP, GSP", choruses of "Ole, Ole, Ole" — and briefly, "[Expletive] You Serra", St. Pierre — who wore a fleur de lys on his trunks, and has another tattooed on his right calf - dominated from the opening moments.

He took Serra to the canvass in the first seconds of the first round, and punished him for most of the five minutes, leaving him with a blackened left eye. The second round featured more of the same, with St. Pierre on top of Serra, pounding his head and kneeing him in the side until referee Yves Lavigne was forced to intervene, stopping the fight, and awarding St. Pierre the organization's championship belt.

"Before I say anything, I want to say something to my friends in Montreal," St. Pierre said from the ring. "This is the most beautiful day of my life."

As for the rest of the show, which started at 8:00 p.m. and lasted well past midnight, it provided what the slickly-packaged UFC always does: action, displays of exceptional technical skills in wrestling, jiu-jitsu, kickboxing and boxing, a safe, well-regulated environment, knockouts, submission holds, choke holds, and lots and lots of blood.

The only rumbles of discontent came during one of the preliminary bouts, when one of the fighters, apparently disinclined to be beaten to a bloody pulp like some of the other brave but overwhelmed combatants on the card, opted to spend three rounds backpeddling and throwing the odd punch. He was booed mercilessly, and mocked by his opponent.

In a business built on delivering exactly what it promises, you can bet he won't be asked back.

(Globe and Mail)


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MMA Weekly: GSP UFC 83 Pre-Fight

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GSP going to Champs?

A few reliable rumours of GSP making an appearance at Montreal's Champs Sports bar afterwards. Of course the rumour is more true if he beats Matt Serra!

Just talk to a source at Champs ....that place is going to be jam packed on April 19th. There is of course the UFC, an important hockey game and a boxing match.

Advice: Eat something before you go. The beer comes fast, food service will be slow.

The Fight Network's GSP - Rush to Success

Episode One

Part A


Part B


Episode Two

Part A


Part B


Episode Three

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Part B

Countdown to U*C 83

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Official V.I.P. After Fight Party with GSP

Official V.I.P. After Fight Party with Georges St. Pierre

La Cage aux Sports (Bell Centre)

Latest GSB Blog entry...

April 13, 2008 @ 5:55 PM

"My training camp for Serra is just about complete and I feel awesome. My preparation has never been this good and I'm ready to show all you fans the best GSP ever!"

"Look forward to a performance to remember on Saturday, it's going to be a different story this time."

GSP ...It's going to be insane!

'It's going to be insane'
Q and A with Georges St. Pierre ...fighter can't wait for uFC 83 in Montreal
By JOSE RODRIGUEZ
April 12, 2008

Q: How is your training camp?

A: It's the best so far. A lot of guys from Greg Jackson camp (Nathan Marquardt/Rashad Evans/Keith Jardine) have come to Montreal to help me train and Denis Kang has been here with me the whole time. I'm doing specific training for the Serra fight. I've been studying a lot of tape and I have a good strategy going into that fight, but like when you play cards, you can't show your hand, so I can't tell you too many specifics.

Q: What is it going to be like to walk out into Bell Centre packed with all your family and friends in the city where you grew up?

A: It's going to be crazy. Montreal people are very hot-blooded. The UFC will have never seen anything like what they will see that night. It's going to be insane. I can't dream of a better scenario fighting in Montreal in front of my people for the title.

Q: How many tickets did you get?

A: I got eight tickets for family and friends and then I bought a couple of more, but I should have got even more because now I don't have enough for everyone. I'm very surprised it sold out in one minute.

Q: Your opponent, Matt Serra, has described himself as Rocky in Rocky IV and you're the Russian freak with no heart named Drago. How do you see this fight?

A: I'm like Rocky in Rocky III where I lose the first time, then come back and beat Clubber Lang.

Q: After the last Serra fight you two had a falling-out and Serra called you a headcase. He said you respectfully took the loss, then made excuses weeks later about not taking Serra seriously and not being 100%. What is the state of relations with your opponent?

A: He has said what he has said. It's too late to do anything about that now. I'm not mad at him. I'm going to fight with my heart and that's how I do best. I think the last fight I had against Matt Serra made me grow up a lot. I had a lot of obstacles in my life. People have no idea what I went through before the Serra fight. A lot of things happened that I want to keep private because for me, as a professional mixed martial arts fighter, I have a public life and I accept that people talk about me. But there are people in my family and my entourage involved with what was happening at that time and I have to respect their private life. Someone close died, but it's not only that, a lot of things happened at that time. It would not be right for me to talk about it, even though it would justify a lot of things. I can say I will never let things that happen to me in my personal life get inside my head.

Q: One of Serra's proteges, Pete Sell, recently called you a mental midget and said "GSP is the type of guy that if they were in a bar, GSP would back down from a fight while Serra is down for whatever." What are your thoughts on that?

A: Of course I'm not going to fight in a club. It's just not my thing. If it doesn't involve me personally or my family, I will avoid it. I believe if you're a good person and treat people nicely, that incident wouldn't arise. I think those situations happen to people who are uncomfortable with themselves. Or try to look tough or act like fighters. You attract what you look like. I don't have anything to prove. When I fight, I do it for a living.

Q: How important is it for you to be respectful in the way you conduct your life inside and outside the cage?

A: Sometimes it's hard because people are not always nice with me. But the best way I can explain it is that I see it as part of my job. I think I'm a role model and it's important for me to be a good example and when I become champion it will be even more important.

Q: How hard is it for you to get dates or friends without questioning whether they only like you because you are a celebrity?

A: I don't have a girlfriend, but all the girls I've been going out with, they didn't know who I was and they didn't even know my sport. I'm attracted by a woman who is intelligent that I can have a good conversation with. Beautiful, of course. Honest and loyal. I find that more attractive than some hot gold digger who doesn't know what I'm like on the inside because I'm a fighter. They don't know that I like to read or that I'm a very intellectual person. Fighting is a job. Once I'm finished working, I like to think about something else.

Q: Any parting shots?

A: I want to thank all my fans in Canada for their support and I believe I'm the best fighter in the world. But it's not the best fighter that always wins, sometimes it's the best fighter on that night or the one that comes best prepared, and I learned that from the last time I fought Serra and I'm coming prepared.

(Winnipeg Sun)

Sportsnet's Analysis of a Loss - GSP vs Serra

Support the GSP Foundation: The Ultimate Fightbook Party

The Ultimate Fightbook Party - Presented by Georges St. Pierre, in collaboration with Fightbook.com
Thursday April 17, 2 days before his sold out fight (more than 21 000 fans) at Bell Centre; Georges St-Pierre, in collaboration with Fightbook.com, present THE ULTIMATE FIGHTBOOK PARTY, an event to benefit the GSP foundation. The event will be hosted by Benoît Gagnon at his club Pinokkio.

The GSP foundation will endeavour to give back to the community through various funding and charity efforts.

Saturday, April 19, more than 21 000 fans will be at the Bell Centre for the UFC 83, a major sports event hosted for the very first time in Canada. That night, Georges "Rush" St-Pierre, will fight to become the uncontested champion as he meets Matt "The Terror" Serra, the current title holder.

Montreal-based Fightbook.com, a niche Social Network focused on the World of combat sports, worked in collaboration with Georges St. Pierre to present an unforgettable evening of entertainment with special appearances by fight stars David "The Crow" Loiseau, Jonathan "The Road Warrior" Goulet and Stephen "Wonder Boy" Thompson; Canadian Rock Star and Much Music personality Robin Black; and Sky Nellor, New York's famous DJ & Top Model (www.skynellor.com).

Club Pinokkio, owned by star media hosts, Benoît Gagnon and Denis Fortin, is proud to greet Georges St-Pierre, Fightbook.com and guests.

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ULTIMATE FIGHTBOOK PARTY
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Club Pinokkio
1320 Maisonneuve O. Blvd. (corner of Crescent St.)
www.clubpinokkio.ca
Doors open at 8 pm.

Tickets available at
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www.wantickets.com/canada
and
MMA Fight Shop:
MMAFightSHop 2000 highway 138
West Kahnawake - 450 638 6363

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Send your best wishes to Georges St-Pierre

Viewers Choice has also launched a special online campaign that will allow Canadians from coast-to-coast to send Canada's mixed martial arts hero Georges St-Pierre their best wishes.

From April 1 to April 17, fans can visit www.viewerschoice.ca/gsp and write messages of encouragement, support and fighting tips to St-Pierre before UFC 83(R). Viewers Choice will present St-Pierre with all of the received messages prior to the official UFC 83(R) weigh-ins on Friday, April 18 in Montreal.