Georges St-Piere, with hair, talks GOAT

Georges St-Pierre is incontrovertibly the Greatest of All Time in the welterweight division. Current division champion in the UFC Kamaru Usman is being spoken of as someone with the potential to exceed GSP. That said, it will take a while – after winning the belt for the second time, and again avenging the second of his two losses, he successfully defended it nine times, before retiring, and returning to win the light heavyweight title. too.

By contrast, Usman lost his second fight, and has successfully defended his welterweight three times, so far. However, during a recent appearance on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, GSP – WITH HAIR – said unequivocally that fighters are getting better.

In terms of accomplishments, it’s different, said St-Pierre. I’ve done stuff that I believe he hasn’t done yet. But I’m gonna tell you the truth and as painful as it could be for any athlete to admit it, the athletes of today are normally better than the athletes of yesterday. As good as the athletes of today are, the athletes of tomorrow will be better. That’s how it is. I don’t care who you are. Even if you’re Usain Bolt, you beat the world record, in a few years there will be another guy that comes and beats your record. I don’t think it’s because the guys are better, it’s because the technology is better and it’s the same thing in mixed martial arts.

We cannot measure the performance like in sprinting or in weight lifting, but we can only speculate and, of course, time for time, maybe he didn’t win 11, but he’s raising the bar. And if I don’t admit that, that means I’m insulting the entire UFC roster. That means I’m saying the sport is regressing, and it’s not true. I believe the sport is getting better. Do I feel that if I go back in my prime and I could fight Kamaru Usman, I do think, yes, I could have done it. However, I know for a fact that as time goes by, guys get better.

Mixed martial arts is a sport about what’s next, and it’s always been like that. The champion that will come after Kamaru Usman, we will promote him as the ‘best guy ever’ who’s better than Georges St-Pierre, who’s better than Kamaru Usman, but it’s the same thing.

Now we have Kamaru Usman, we have Israel Adesanya – we don’t talk about Anderson Silva anymore. We talk about Israel Adesanya, and that’s OK. That’s how the sport is, and we have to accept it. I know how it is, and we like to be remembered for the stuff that we’ve done, we put a lot of effort into it, but that’s the reality, and I accept it. I make peace with it. It was hard in the beginning, but I make peace with it.