My Favourite Fight: UFC’s Georges St-Pierre explains how losing made him a winner
- Legendary Canadian reveals his only two career defeats, by Matt Hughes and Matt Serra, were his favourite bouts in the Octagon
- ‘The most important fights I had in my career were those two losses,’ he says. ‘Failure is the greatest teacher’
Georges St-Pierre knows he‘ll be haunted by rumours of a possible return to the cage until he’s of such an advanced age they can no longer be taken seriously.
For the moment, though, “Rush” is still on the right side of 40, and not that far off fighting condition thanks to daily workouts. And that means he’s still being thrown up as a possible opponent for those considered the best in the business right now – welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and even lightweight king Khabib Nurmagomedov among them.
Eighteen months on from retirement and the sport simply keeps dragging St-Pierre back into the conversation.
So there’s a laugh at the end of the phone line when SCMP MMA tells St-Pierre that, no, we’re not so much interested in what might (maybe) happen ahead, even though the sport of MMA hangs on every word he speaks when it comes to that particular topic.
“It never stops,” says the 39-year-old of those rumours. “Even the young guys at my gym ask me every day, ‘Are you going to fight again?’ So it is nice to talk about other things.”