Octagon icon Georges St-Pierre is uninterested in seeing fighters making an attempt to comply with within the footsteps of Conor McGregor.
There’s no denying that the Irish megastar has made an enormous imprint on the game of combined martial arts. Whether or not or not he ever steps foot contained in the cage once more, McGregor will probably go down because the group’s high star and one of the crucial influential fighters in MMA historical past.
Sadly, McGregor’s cocky demeanor and trash-talking persona have led many youthful fighters to try to emulate the Irish megastar in hopes of capturing the identical lighting in a bottle that he caught a decade in the past.
Up to now, no one has come shut outdoors of Colby Covington who created his obnoxious Trump-loving ‘Chaos’ character as a method of saving his personal job. Even then, Covington has come nowhere near incomes McGregor-level cash or crossing over into different avenues of leisure.
It did nonetheless earn him a trio of UFC title alternatives, two of which he undeniably earned along with his mouth greater than his ability contained in the cage. In fact, Covington fumbled all three alternatives and appears to be operating low on followers following one other humiliating loss towards Joaquin Buckley in December.
As for the subsequent era of UFC expertise, St-Pierre provided a phrase of recommendation for the up-and-comers, suggesting that they offer up their desires of being the subsequent Conor McGregor and as a substitute concentrate on being one in all a form.
“A lot of the new generation, they watch Conor McGregor because he made a lot of money being a good trash talker and this is who he is, he’s very good at it,” GSP mentioned on the Geeking Out with Matt Serra podcast. “I think some people, they try to create a character around them and it shows that it’s not authentic…If you stay authentic to who you are, I think it’s more charismatic than if you are trying to play someone that you are not. I think it shows at some point” (h/t Sportskeeda).
Not like Conor McGregor, GSP most well-liked to do his speaking contained in the octagon
St-Pierre formally ended his UFC profession in 2017 after beating Michael Bisping to change into a two-division world champion. Alongside the way in which, ‘Rush’ by no means engaged in the kind of trash-talk that runs rampant on social media and at press conferences at this time.
Positive, a part of that’s as a result of English wasn’t St-Pierre’s first language, but in addition as a result of it simply wasn’t his fashion. He was far more excited by being genuine and letting his fists do the speaking.
“I simply stayed genuine to who I’m. And I didn’t have to trash discuss as a result of first, English just isn’t my first language and it’s additionally simply I’m not good about it. I do my speaking within the octagon.
St-Pierre walked away from the game with a 20-2 file contained in the Octagon, his solely losses coming towards Matt Hughes and Matt Serra. He would go on to avenge each of these defeats throughout his tenure as a two-time welterweight titleholder.
