Octagon icon Georges St-Pierre is uninterested in seeing fighters attempting to comply with within the footsteps of Conor McGregor.
There’s no denying that the Irish megastar has made a large imprint on the game of blended 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 prime star and some of the influential fighters in MMA historical past.
Sadly, McGregor’s cocky demeanor and trash-talking persona have led many youthful fighters to attempt to emulate the Irish megastar in hopes of capturing the identical lighting in a bottle that he caught a decade in the past.
So far, no one has come shut exterior of Colby Covington who created his obnoxious Trump-loving ‘Chaos’ character as a way 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 talent 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 following technology 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 following Conor McGregor and as an alternative deal with being one among a form.
“A variety of the brand new technology, they watch Conor McGregor as a result of he made some huge cash being a great trash talker and that is who he’s, he’s superb at it,” GSP stated on the Geeking Out with Matt Serra podcast. “I believe some individuals, they attempt to create a personality round them and it exhibits that it’s not genuine…When you keep genuine to who you might be, I believe it’s extra charismatic than in case you are attempting to play somebody that you’re not. I believe it exhibits sooner or later” (h/t Sportskeeda).
In contrast to Conor McGregor, GSP most popular to do his speaking contained in the octagon
St-Pierre formally ended his UFC profession in 2017 after beating Michael Bisping to turn into a two-division world champion. Alongside the best way, ‘Rush’ by no means engaged in the kind of trash-talk that runs rampant on social media and at press conferences right now.
Certain, 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 model. He was far more keen on 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 will not be 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 document 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.
