In September 2008, St-Pierre earned his black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Bruno Fernandes. St-Pierre received his brown belt in BJJ from Renzo Gracie on July 21, 2006. Penn at UFC 58, he trained at the Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in New York City. St-Pierre has trained with a number of groups in a large variety of gyms throughout his fighting career. The statue sits in an octagon representing the UFC cage with St-Pierre's eight core values engraved in French on the octagon floor: family, perserverance, wisdom, integrity, generosity, respect, creativity and honour. On 9 June 2021, Saint-Isidore honoured St-Pierre with the unveiling of a life-sized 136kg bronze statue of himself, complete with a biography entitled “Place GSP”. Īs 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".
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Already a 2nd dan Kyokushin karate black belt at age 12, his first professional fight was at age 20.
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Before turning pro as a mixed martial artist, St-Pierre worked as a bouncer at a Montreal night club in the South Shore called Fuzzy Brossard and as a garbageman for six months to pay for his school fees. After graduation he enrolled in kinesiology studies at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit. St-Pierre attended high school at École Pierre-Bédard where he held the school record for number of chin-ups done. He took up wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and boxing after his Karate teacher died when he was around 16 years old. He began learning Kyokushin Karate at age seven from his father and later from a Kyokushin Karate Master to defend himself against a school bully. As a child he played hockey, skated and participated in several sports. St-Pierre had a difficult childhood, attending a school where others would steal his clothes and money. St-Pierre, a Québécois, was born in Saint-Isidore, Montérégie, Quebec, to Roland and Pauline St-Pierre on May 19, 1981.
St-Pierre is a three-time former UFC Welterweight Champion, having won the title twice and the interim title once between November 2006 and April 2008. St-Pierre was a two-division champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), having won titles in the welterweight and middleweight divisions.
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in mixed martial arts (MMA) history. Georges St-Pierre ( French pronunciation: born May 19, 1981) is a Canadian former professional mixed martial artist and actor.
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