GSP admits injury was very bad during title fight
On Saturday night, Georges St. Pierre took another step towards proving that he belongs in the same sentence as other…
On Saturday night, Georges St. Pierre took another step towards proving that he belongs in the same sentence as other legends of sports history such as Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Muhammed Ali.But when he faced Thiago Alves at UFC 100, he spent almost half the bout with an injury that would have put most others on the sideline, asking for the fight to be stopped.
During the third round when St. Pierre found himself on the bottom, guarding from Alves’ attack, he felt a pop and immediately knew that something was definitely wrong.
“It’s pretty bad, I’m in real bad pain. It happened in the third round, and I don’t remember exactly, but when I was on the bottom, in my guard, and Thiago pushed my knee down and I heard my groin, my abductor snap.I heard a noise and it was pretty bad,” St. Pierre said during the post fight press conference about the injury.
After the round ended, he headed back to his corner, and while surely a funny moment from trainer Greg Jackson, he simply would not let the champion fade with an injury going into the championship rounds.
“I came back in my corner and some people are going to see that on TV and are going to laugh. I come back in the corner and I told my trainer I pulled my abductor, and my trainer Greg Jackson, he says to me, ‘I don’t care!Hit him with it!’So I was like I guess I have to go back there and finish the fight.That’s the gameplan,” St. Pierre said with a laugh.”So I fought on it, with the adrenaline it’s not so bad, now it’s getting really bad, it’s really painful.”
