{"id":848316,"date":"2025-05-14T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/mma-legend-georges-st-pierre-says-fk-that-to-popular-ufc-matchmaking-strategy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:12:45","slug":"mma-legend-georges-st-pierre-says-fk-that-to-popular-ufc-matchmaking-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/mma-legend-georges-st-pierre-says-fk-that-to-popular-ufc-matchmaking-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA legend Georges St-Pierre says \u2018f**k that\u2019 to popular UFC matchmaking strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MMA legend Georges St-Pierre is not a fan of a common strategy the UFC matchmakers employ when booking fights.<\/p>\n<picture><source   type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Georges-St-Pierre-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Georges St-Pierre, UFC, MMA\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"><\/picture>\n<p>St-Pierre is considered one of the greatest MMA fighters ever. He spent most of his career competing at welterweight, where he was the long-time UFC champion. The Canadian briefly retired after defending his title for the 10th time against Johny Hendricks in 2013, but returned to action in 2018, claiming the UFC middleweight belt with a submission win over Michael Bisping.<\/p>\n<p>He never fought again.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say St-Pierre retired on his terms, sticking around only for the fights that made sense for him. He believes other aging fighters should do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, the UFC will book older fighters against young, hungry fighters in passing of the torch style matchups. It rarely goes well for the older fighter. Some prime examples include Frankie Edgar losing to Chris Gutierrez, Mauricio \u201cShogun\u201d Rua losing to Ihor Potieria, and most recently Anthony Smith losing to Zhang Mingyang \u2014 all by stoppage. There are exceptions to the rule, like Robbie Lawler\u2019s epic retirement KO of Niko Price, but more often than not, the younger fighter spoils the swan song.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThere\u2019s something that you cannot beat, it\u2019s time\u2026 They tell you pass the torch. Fuck that. Don\u2019t pass the torch. Retire on your turn, not on their turn. It\u2019s a selfish sport and you have to be selfish\u2026 When you feel it\u2019s time to retire, retire.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgesStPierre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeorgesStPierre<\/a> on when\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L2nSalP2Uj\">pic.twitter.com\/L2nSalP2Uj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1916920663094530393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> Marquis Buresh<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/mma-legend-georges-st-pierre-says-fk-that-to-popular-ufc-matchmaking-strategy\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mma-legend-georges-st-pierre-says-fk-that-to-popular-ufc-matchmaking-strategy\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA legend Georges St-Pierre is not a fan of a common strategy the UFC matchmakers employ when booking fights. St-Pierre is considered one of the greatest MMA fighters ever. He spent most of his career competing at welterweight, where he was the long-time UFC champion. The Canadian briefly retired after defending his title for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41545,1600],"tags":[14227,8401],"class_list":{"0":"post-848316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-georges","8":"category-legend","9":"tag-georges","10":"tag-legend"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}