Have We Seen the Best of Georges St. Pierre?
The inevitable happened two weeks ago in Montreal. Georges St. Pierre won back his UFC welterweight strap in his hometown, overwhelming Matt Serra by TKO in the second round. It wasn’t even close. St. Pierre avenged his upset loss to Serra in April 2007 and ran his MMA record to 16-2.
There’s more where that came from. St. Pierre will be 27 years old on May 19 and has many more years of learning ahead of him. The time he’s put in the gym at Greg Jackson’s Gaidojutsu facility in New Mexico has only made GSP more lethal. He stunned Serra with his versatility, going for takedowns instead of relying on his vaunted striking skills.
The champ’s next opponent is expected to be Jon Fitch; that’s not expected to be much of a contest. “St. Pierre will just maul him, easy,” Karo Parisyan told Brawl Sports last month. Perhaps a middleweight fight with Anderson Silva is in order.
