Octagon icon Georges St-Pierre is bored with seeing fighters making an attempt 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 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 attempt to emulate the Irish megastar in hopes of capturing the identical lighting in a bottle that he caught a decade in the past.
To this point, no person 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. After all, Covington fumbled all three alternatives and appears to be working low on followers following one other humiliating loss in opposition to 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 provide up their goals of being the following Conor McGregor and as an alternative concentrate on being one in all a sort.
“Lots of the brand new technology, they watch Conor McGregor as a result of he made some huge cash being trash talker and that is who he’s, he’s superb at it,” GSP mentioned on the Geeking Out with Matt Serra podcast. “I believe some folks, they attempt to create a personality round them and it reveals that it’s not genuine…When you keep genuine to who you’re, I believe it’s extra charismatic than in case you are making an attempt to play somebody that you’re not. I believe it reveals in some unspecified time in the future” (h/t Sportskeeda).
Not like 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 out to be 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.
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 fashion. He was way more enthusiastic about 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 document contained in the Octagon, his solely losses coming in opposition to Matt Hughes and Matt Serra. He would go on to avenge each of these defeats throughout his tenure as a two-time welterweight titleholder.
