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Georges St Pierre came into this world on 18/5/1981 in Saint-Isidore which is in Quebec,Canada born to Pauline and Roland St Pierre. Georges St Pierre had a troubled adolescence.He went to a school that sometimes found the other pupils stealing his money and on occasion even his clothes. So with this in mind he began to learn the art of Kyokushin karate aged just seven years old. At first he learnt from his dad and then a while later on,he began to learn more advanced techniques from a Kyokushin Karate Master in order that he could defend himself against a bully who attended his school.Later on he started to do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and wrestling shortly after his karate teacher unfortunatly died during this time he also he also trained as a boxer. Before going pro as a MMA, Georges St Pierre also spent some time working as a bouncer at a club called Fuzzy Brossard,in the South Shore,Montreal. He also worked in the garbage disposal industry for a short while in order to pay for his studies. Georges St Pierre trained with many,many people in lots of different of gyms right the way through his MMA carreer. Before the bout against B.J. Penn at UFC 58 he was training in New York at the at the Renzo Gracie Jiu Jitsu Academy.Georges St-Pierre attained his brown belt in Gracie Barra Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from Renzo Gracie on 21/7/2006. In Sept 2008 ,Georges St Pierre got his black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Bruno Fernandes Georges St Pierre started to train with Keith Jardine, Donald Cerrone,Nathan Marquardt,Rashad Evans and other highly skilled mixed martial arts practitioners at the Greg Jackson Submission Fighting Gaidojutsu New Mexico school. A few of Greg Jackson’s pupils went with Georges StPierre to Montreal and helped him to prepare for the bout at UFC 94 which was against B.J. Penn in the Tristar Gym, including Nathan Marquardt Rashad, EvansKeith Jardine, Nathan Marquardt. Georges St Pierre’s conditioning and strength trainer is Jonathan Chaimberg from the Montreal Adrenaline and Performance Centre l. Georges St Pierre’s top/head coach is Firas Zahabi out of  Zahabi MMA, from the Tristar.These two close friends have been in the corner at all of St-Pierre’s most recent fights. At the moment St-Pierre is training in Muay Thai with Phil Nurse in New York. During September 2010, Georges St Pierre went on a promotional tour of the Philippines for the promototion of MMA to the Filipinos. Georges got a very friendly welcome at his first visit to Manila.Ultimate Fighting Championship Georges St-Pierre had his initial his UFC bout at UFC 46, in which he comprehensively battered Karo Parisyan and won by a unanimous verdict. Georges next bout in the UFC saw him come up in battle with Jay Hieron at UFC 48.Georges St-Pierre claimed another great victory here as he beat Hieron in 142 seconds thanks to a technical knockout After Georges 2nd victory in the UFC, he was up against Matt Hughes at the UFC 50 for the vacant UFC Welterweight belt. Inspite of a gutsy fight against the vastly more experienced man,George St-Pierre had to tap out to an armbar with merely 1 sec left of the 1st round.This loss was the first of GSP’s fighting career,which he took on the chin helped him to learn a lot,he has since said that he was in awe of Hughes going into the match. St-Pierre bounced right back after his loss to Matt Hughes with a convincing win over Dave Strasser at TKO 19 by a 1st round kimura tapout. Georges returned after this to the UFC to fight Jason Miller in UFC 52, beating Miller with a unanimous verdict after which their was plenty of blood to be mopped up. Georges St-Pierre was then slated in against one of the top contenders, Frank Trigg at UFC 54. St-Pierre maintained control throughout the fight and eventually got him in rear naked choke move with less than a sixty seconds left on the clock in the first round.He then fought the soon to be lightweight champ Sean Sherk at UFC 56. In the middle of the second round,St-Pierre became only the 2nd man to beat Sherk and the first fighter to ever finish him inside the time limit. During the UFC 58, Georges St Pierre beat the old UFC welterweight champ B.J. Penn which made him the number one guy in contention f for the UFC welterweight belt. Georges St-Pierre beat him by split judges decision.Georges was then about to have the rematch with champion Matt Hughes at UFC 63,unfortunately however Georges St-Pierre had to to withdraw from the match, due to a groin injury,he was then replaced by B.J. PennThe UFC said later that Geoges St Pierre would be able to have the title title fight when he was fully healed.