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The main character of our video today is one of the best fighters in the history of MMA,
Georges St-Pierre.
Canadian former professional mixed martial artist and actor Georges St-Pierre was born
on May 19, 1981 in Saint-Isidore, Montérégie, Quebec.
Since his mixed martial arts and UFC days, Georges has had a huge effect inside the ring.
Often known as "GSP," St-Pierre is widely regarded as one of the best fighters in mixed
martial arts history.
He was a two-division champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), having won titles
in the welterweight and middleweight divisions.
St-Pierre, a Québécois, was born to Roland and Pauline St-Pierre.
His father worked as a flooring and carpet installer and his mother was working at a
nursing home.
He has two younger sisters.
St-Pierre was bullied incessantly in school and regularly had his clothes and money stolen
by other students.
Although he was active in a number of sports as a youth, he remained focused on martial
arts since the age of seven as a means of self-defense against bullies at school.
By the age of 12, St-Pierre had earned a second dan black belt in Kyokushin Karate.
Four years later, his karate teacher passed away, prompting him to learn wrestling, boxing,
and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Learning various martial arts wasn't cheap, and Georges worked as a garbage collector
and a bouncer to pay his tuition fees.
By the age of 20, he was ready to become a professional fighter.
Georges has a three-year-old son named Liam from a previous relationship with Divine Kirezy,
who is a Rwandan-Canadian.
Hence, at the moment, GSP is currently dating Genie Bouchard, and there are no rumors of
them getting married soon.
Georges St-Pierre started his career strong in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
at UFC 46 with a win against Karo Parisyan.
Within the organization, St-Pierre was a two-division champion, having won titles in the welterweight
and middleweight divisions.
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 ranked as the #1 welterweight in the world for several years by Sherdog
and numerous other publications.
In 2008, 2009 and 2010 he was named the Canadian Athlete of the Year by Rogers Sportsnet.
Fight Matrix lists him as the top MMA welterweight of all time and most accomplished fighter
in MMA history.
He retired as the reigning Welterweight Champion in December 2013, having held the record for
most wins in title bouts and the second longest combined title streak in UFC history (2,204
days) while defending his title nine consecutive times.
He returned to the Octagon in November 2017 at UFC 217, when he defeated Michael Bisping
by submission to win the Middleweight title, thus becoming the fourth fighter in the history
of the UFC to be a multi-division champion.
St-Pierre announced his official retirement on February 21, 2019, at a press conference
at the Bell Centre in Montreal.
On May 9, 2020, UFC announced St-Pierre will be inducted into the Modern-Era Wing of the
UFC Hall of Fame.
The UFC Hall of Famer has made an enormous wealth throughout his MMA career.
He has accumulated a net worth of $30 million as of 2021and is currently ranked as the fourth
richest MMA fighter in the world.
Georges St-Pierre made his acting debut playing a character named after himself in the 2009
action thriller Never Surrender.
He also appeared in action films such as Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016) and Cartels (2017).
In 2014, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Georges Batroc / The Leaper, a character
that has been dubbed by writer Mark Waid as “John Claude Van Damme of the 1960s,”
in the 2014 superhero film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
St-Pierre recently reprised his Marvel role in Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter
Soldier and provided the voice role in Disney+ animated series What If...?.
Pierre is the founder of The Georges St-Pierre Foundation, which is a non-profitable foundation.
GSP formed this charitable organization to enlighten young people and save themselves
from bullying or speak against the bullying happening to them or near them.
Similarly, he has donated $1 million to this anti-bullying charity as well as donating
extra clothes to needy people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an interview with GQ, St-Pierre broke down how he spent the first $1 million he made
in UFC.
When an athlete first strikes it big, that can be an overwhelming moment in which they
make some lavish purchases.
While St-Pierre spent his money fairly responsibly, there was one extravagant buy he made: dinosaur
bones.
Georges has bought several fossils, including Megalodon tooth and Mosasaurus jaw, for more
than $20,000.
He added that if not for his career as a fighter, he would have pursued paleontology as a vocation.
He shared: “Paleontology, I love it because you learn about the past, and if you learn
about the past you can understand the present better, and predict the future.”
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