Georges St-Pierre is considered the MMA GOAT by many people after his very successful career in the UFC as welterweight champion. He was able to dominate many fighters and rarely lost.
It was quite surprising when Georges St-Pierre was asked for his MMA GOAT and he picked a different UFC champion. Many would have expected him to pick Anderson Silva or Jon Jones but he went with a name that recently retired.
“He had a perfect career, perfect, he’s on the top. The way I see it when you say greatest of all time you have to wait until their career is over,” UFC Hall of Famer St-Pierre said to MMANews about Nurmagomedov. “It’s sad to say but a lot of fighters I feel tend to (tarnish) their legacy a little bit because they hang there too long. For me, the greatest of all time is someone who left behind a great legacy. If you stay too long past your prime in a sport like basketball it’s not too bad. In a sport like full-contact fighting, boxing, MMA, or kickboxing you get punched in the head, it’s very dramatic, and the outcome of a loss is much more serious than it is in another sport.
“We say we play basketball, we play hockey, we play football, but you don’t play fighting,” UFC legend St-Pierre continued. “Therefore, that is why I’m telling the younger generation, make your money, fight when you are on the top of the food chain when you are at best and your prime, and then exit. Leave it.”
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