Coach: St-Pierre spent night before Diaz fight vomiting
Coach reveals St-Pierre’s illness the day before his fight with Nick Diaz
Georges St-Pierre’s second to last fight before retiring was agains Nick Diaz. St-Pierre won a five round unanimous decision in a performance that was typical of the dominant champion.
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The events leading up to the fight were anything but typical though, as jiu-jitsu coached John Danaher recently revealed to MMAFighting:
“Georges drank some watermelon juice for rehydration that had been too long out of the fridge and got a badly upset stomach,” Danaher wrote. “He spent the entire night vomiting. It was so sad to see such a perfect camp get ruined at the last minute by such a minor oversight. The night of the fight, Mr St-Pierre came in underweight and drained. We had to curtail the warm up for fear of exhausting him before the bout even began.”
Before then, Danaher described GSP’s preparation as “probably the most flawless and well run fight camp.” But you know that old saying about the best laid plans. (Danaher added that St-Pierre’s camp for Carlos Condit was “probably the worst.”)
“Yet despite our best intentions, there is always a good chance of things going awry that require spontaneous change and adaption in the face of unexpected circumstances,” Danaher wrote. “All the major MMA fight camps I have been a part of furnished unforeseen incidents and drama that could not have been predicted and which had to be overcome.”
source: mmafighting.com
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