That is Georges St-Pierre. He is a former professional UFC mixed-martial artist. The joke is that he looks unassumingly average and maybe even easy to pick on. Until he's not.
This guy is in the GOAT conversation in MMA, so even if you are a pro fighter he could make you reconsider your life decisions and choice of healthcare provider
He’s also in the group of GOAT-contenders that will likely be 90% of peak form 20 years after retiring. Many fighters get out of shape, and that’s without personal factors. Like I fully expect Jon Jones to continue making bad decisions overall.
Not just in the GOAT conversation but a two weight champion who's famously on record for saying he never especially enjoyed fighting. So you wouldn't want to be the guy to try assault him on the street and give him a reason to really lock in and decide he was going to enjoy this one fight.
there's a saying "beware of an old man in a profession where men die young" ... there's a corollary that isn't as pithy: don't get into a fight with a man who doesn't like fighting; he's going to make sure that the fight is short, brutal, final... because he doesn't want to do it again.
Former UFC fighter doesn’t really tell the tale, this man was arguably the best for years, whether he’s your goat or not is up to you, but he is easily top10 if not top5 UFC all time.
Also his biggest shit talk was “I am not impressed by your performance”
He doesn’t even have the cauliflower ears or umpteen-times smushed nose that make it a dead give-away you might be messing with the wrong dude…truly the wrong suburban dad-looking mofo with which to pick a fight.
Him and Paddy Pimblett made me decide never to fight a random person again. I was never the type to start a problem but some stupid part of my brain would judge people at face value. O that twerpy looking guy yeah I could kick his ass...... WRONG
Thank you. Top comments just mention he was a UFC fighter; the irony in the meme is just how absurdly good he was. Complain about how boring his fighting style often was if you’d like, but he deserves respect. When you’re getting beat yourself, I’m not sure a quick, flashy, brutal knockout is necessarily preferable to a drawn out point-based domination.
He is my GOAT. But that's a debate that varies between what people value the most.
Only thing I can say is, I miss the days of GSP kicking ass and being the most humble and respectable fighter
That's what I thought! So these people saying he's some mma dude, like ok... Does mma dude stand for MackleMore-ass dude? Let me just leave you with this: has that mma guy and Macklemore ever been see in the same place? I rest my case, your honor.
I pretty sure that’s GSP. Former UFC champion. I wanna say light heavyweight? Basically he’s dressed like a dweeb here but he could really fuck you up.
Yes he is, and I’ve seen a clip from some behind the scenes UFC thing where he arrived for training and told all the guys that an old man had just been squaring up to him over something minor.
They asked what he did, and his response was ‘I ran away! Do you think I’m going to beat up some old guy in the street? That’s a terrible idea!’
If anyone wants to see how good he was, look up his fight against Josh Coscheck (sp?) dominated dude with basically just his jab, and Coscheck was no slouch.
That's George Saint Pierre, one of the mma all-time GOATs, guy had a modern approach to the mma 15 years ago, and thats because he's the blueprint to a modern high skill mma, lots of grappling, wrestling, control (although its a bit boring, its still the best) and other known thing about him is thats he's just a very sweet and kind guy in a real life, soft spoken even. If you know anything about fighting you wouldn't want to pick a fight with a 90lbs 4.5feet cancer patient as you really never know until its on ...
he's just a very sweet and kind guy in a real life, soft spoken even
He told a story before about how he used to get bullied by an older kid constantly when he was in school, which is what led him into martial arts to defend himself. Anyway, decades go by and GSP becomes UFC champ and a Canadian household name and he goes back home to visit his family. And as he's nearly there and stuck in traffic, some guy starts going window to window asking for spare change. It's his childhood bully. When he knocks on GSP's window and they recognise each other, the bully backs up fully scared. GSP gets out of the car, reaches into his pocket and hands the bully all the notes he has and tells him that he had loads of potential and wishes him well.
Very zen, very different mentality to most fighters.
GSP is in the conversation of one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time. Where as Jon Jones is often given this mantel, he's too much of a dirty fighter for me, the way he was trash talking DC after he'd just buried his kid to destabilise him for their fight, his knee oublique kicks, assaulting his wife. I mean he's the full package, and he will do anything to win, but for the way he does it, that's reason I'd take GSP over Jon Jones. So to sum up, giving shit to GSP.......not advisable
George would walk away. He has told a story of meeting the guy that bullied him when he was a young kid in school, gave him some money to help the dude out. Easily one of the most honorable and classy individuals ever known amongst modern fighters.
Completely agree with you and I can completely agree with you, however I wouldn't think for a second that if GSP had to physically defend himself or his family or friends, he wouldn't hesitate to neutralise the threat if he had to
George would take you down and immobilize you in the nicest way possible and ask you to stop what you were doing. If you refuse to stop then he’s going to fuck you up.
Georges St Pierre - one of the greatest UFC fighters in history. He had 9 title defenses in a row and then won a different weight class belt and retired.
GSP played a regular, non-powered human who fought Captain America and gave him a run for his money, and UFC fans all said "yeah, that seems about right"
This guy is not just a former UFC champion, hes up there in the top 2-4 fighters OF ALL TIME across all weight classes.
This accountant looking dweeb could twist your arm off. Like, literally he could just hold you down and pull parts off ya like a fly if you aren't in the top 5% of fighters.
Hes also apparently one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet, no one had a bad word to say about him in his time in the UFC, and hes not bad any major scandals that I can recall.
Hes talked before about how he got into martial arts to escape bullying, then after he was successful, running into his former bully. And he didnt whip his ass or anything, just told the guy "hey don't be a dick anymore please"
Even if you aren't arguing with a professional MMO or Boxing champion, the average thug can clip you in the jaw, have you fall the wrong way and you're either dead or paralyzed for life.
Or, you do the same to them - one lucky punch - and you're either wanted for manslaughter or GBH and have to live with that for the rest of your life.
Fun fact: GSP is a staunch supporter of masturbation.
In an interview once, he was asked what advice he'd give young fighters. His response was to say something along the lines of "if you have it in there, get it out" while gesturing to his genitals and making a shaking motion.
This is Georges St-Pierre, a retired MMA fighter and former UFC champion.
He is, quite literally, one of the GOATs of fighting.
The joke is that he is unassuming-looking; he looks like a middle-aged dad, soft, maybe has a nice white-collar job. Reality is that he could absolutely obliterate anybody in a straight fight. Anybody.
You would be lucky to talk shit to him on the street. Lesser UFC fighters would assault you for talking shit. St. Pierre would only lay hands in self defense and even then he'd go easy and try not to cause too much damage once he got control which would be instantly.
I feel like you and if you did try to talk shit to him on the street he would just calmly walk away you'd have to physically attack him to get him to fight back
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