(CROWD CHEERING IN DISTANCE)
(DANAHER): When you look at the sport
of mixed martial arts,
there's a mysterious element to it.
If 2 people enter a cage and
there can be only one winner,
the odds of victory
should be roughly 50/50.
And if you look at the career
of the average
mixed martial arts athlete,
that's exactly what happens.
They win one, they lose one.
They win one, they lose one.
But then there
are the champions.
AND ONE HAS TO ASK:
"What makes them different?"
(GROWLING)
(CAR HORNS HONKING,
SIREN WAILING)
(DANAHER): I used
to teach a beginner's class.
We would introduce people
to the sport of jiu-jitsu.
And one night, Georges walked in.
I had no idea who he was.
He just looked like
a young, athletic fellow
and came in like anyone else.
He spoke very little
English in those days.
He knew that
you paid money to train.
BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO ASK:
"How much do I pay?"
Georges walks in, takes
all his money out of his pocket
and just puts it on the table
and looks at me.
And that's how he would pay.
He would just walk in.
In the end, it became,
like, a weekly thing.
And then, after a couple weeks:
"I can't take any more of this.
Just keep your money!"
And he would come in and train.
(BIRDS CHIRPING,
DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(SPEAKING FRENCH):
(CROWD CHEERING)
(MALE ANNOUNCER): Ladies and gentleman,
4 minutes, 8 seconds!
(MAN GRUNTING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(ROCK MUSIC)
Baby, bring me back to the house.
Yeah, I found my way back home.
I found my way back home.
- The first time I wanted to...
that I heard about
mixed martial arts
is I was at my friend's house.
He rented a DVD.
(CROWD CHEERING)
The guy that won the
tournament was Royce Gracie.
He was smaller
than everyone else.
He looked, literally, like
a kid fighting a grown man.
(CROWD CHEERING)
And right away,
when I see him win, I got inspired
and I wanted to become like him,
and I wanted to become champion as well.
(CROWD CHEERING AND WHISTLING)
After the mixed martial arts
came in here, it was made...
It was on the Native
American reserve in Kahnawake,
because it was illegal at the time.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD CHEERING AND WHISTLING)
(GEORGES): I saw Kristof.
He knocked out the guy
in, like, 9 seconds.
He was, like, amazing.
(MEN): Yeah!
(CHILDREN SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
(SWINGS CREAKING)
(GEORGES):
I was not a popular kid.
Girls didn't like me.
I didn't have much friends.
(CHILDREN SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
When you're not cool,
you hang out with not-cool people.
Things are hard.
I remember I was at school.
I was not listening to what
the teacher was explaining to me.
I was thinking about
how I'm gonna get out of school,
reach the bus before the kids, uh...
grab me and beat me up, you know?
(CHAIN-LINK FENCE RATTLING)
(BOYS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
I was a very proud person,
so I had a lot of ego.
And even young...
It was a big problem for me.
(BOYS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
So I come back,
I passed through them,
and I remember I swing
one of them as hard as I can.
(BOYS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
I took such a beating.
(CHILDREN SCREAMING
AND SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
I knew I was doing the right thing,
and I was like:
"Man, these guys,
next time they mess with me,
"they know, at least,
I'm not an easy target."
And, you know, I was
a proud person, you know.
I always wanted to be respected.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
(CHEERING, SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
- He began taking
the beginner's class,
and I noted immediately
he was physically strong.
Nothing crazy,
just a good, athletic fellow
who seemed to be very
interested in the sport
and trained
with gusto and enthusiasm.
But really nothing exceptional.
There was nothing that
made me look at him and say:
"My God, one day this guy's
gonna be a world champion."
(CAR HORNS HONKING)
As I trained with him more,
I discovered that he was, in fact,
travelling all the way from Montreal.
And he would
show up most weekends.
And I also learned that
he had very little money.
(SIRENS WAILING)
He would stay at very, very
cheap flophouses in the city.
And I was immediately
impressed by his enthusiasm.
I had students
who complained about coming
15 minutes from Brooklyn to class,
and this guy was coming
7 hours from Montreal,
coming across an international border.
As the weeks and months went by
he just kept
showing up, showing up.
(MAN LAUGHING,
SPEAKING FRENCH)
(MAN LAUGHING,
GEORGES TALKING, INDISTINCT)
(BELL RINGING,
MEN TALKING, INDISTINCT)
(LAUGHING)
(MAN LAUGHING)
(MEN LAUGHING)
You could start out like this.
(MEN LAUGHING)
(MEN TALKING, INDISTINCT)
There's an interesting question
you can ask about Georges St-Pierre.
And he's very honest about this.
HE'LL TELL YOU:
"I'm not the best wrestler.
"Nor am I the best boxer,
nor the best kickboxer.
"Nor am I the best jiu-jitsu guy."
(CROWD CHEERING)
And yet, his career
clearly shows him dominating
extremely talented people
who, apparently,
have greater skills than him
in all of these areas.
(ANNOUNCER TALKING, INDISTINCT,
CROWD CHEERING)
SO YOU GOTTA ASK YOURSELF A QUESTION:
"How is that possible?"
(ANNOUNCER):
And down again!
- And that's a fascinating
question. How did it happen?
Not just once, but
throughout his career.
- Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap!
- Georges was merging skills
from different martial arts,
in ways that his competitors
couldn't keep up with.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(DANAHER): He's the only student I've had
who taught me more than I taught him.
(CROWD CHEERING)
- I see tons of guys
who people think have
the potential to be big stars.
You never know until
they really get to a level
where they start to fight
the best in the world.
Georges St-Pierre was just dominating,
destroying guys at that level.
(CROWD CHEERING)
- As Georges progressed,
he had some early
successes in the UFC
and perhaps before his time,
was put in to fight Matt Hughes
for the world championship
at a very young age.
(CROWD CHEERING)
He fought a dominant
world champion...
with no more than
10% to 15% of his potential
and was winning the fight.
Made a critical error,
a beginner's error, really.
(CROWD CHEERING)
Georges lost to a basic submission hold.
It never should've happened.
(CROWD CHEERING, HORN BLOWING)
He lost not so much because
Matt Hughes beat him,
but because he made
a series of obvious mistakes.
(DANAHER): So, we talked
after this, and he said:
"Train me not so much
in jiu-jitsu, but in fighting."
(CAGE DOOR CREAKING)
And that's when things
started getting interesting.
(DANAHER): Turn and mount.
From half-guard scenario.
Let's give it a try, fellas.
As he goes to elbows,
then score, score, score!
Good. Now flatten him out. And now...
Beautiful!
(DANAHER): Beautiful!
- I have a wonderful crew with me,
of trainers and training partners
that I'm lucky to have.
- The guy who puts it all together
is Firas.
Firas Zahabi,
who is his head trainer,
who's another brilliant, brilliant guy.
Having guys like Danaher,
having guys like Firas Zahabi
and having this tight mind-group.
(DANAHER): Beautiful!
- No egos. All trying to figure out
what is the best way
for Georges to overcome this fighter.
- In the beginning, I used to beat people
by overpowering them.
But in UFC,
this is more like a chess match.
At one point,
it's not athletic, you know?
It's also brain and analyzing stuff.
(TRUNK CRACKING)
(WIND BLOWING)
- Georges is excellent
at finding his opponent's weaknesses.
And that's why I always say,
he's the perfect counter-fighter.
He's the perfect antagonist.
Whatever you do well, he'll avoid
and take you into the realm
where you're weakest.
- If you look at Georges
he's the best in the world
at dictating the direction of a fight.
Why? 'Cause he's the master of shoot box.
(CROWD CHEERING)
Shoot box enables me to determine:
Will this fight stay standing
or will it go to the ground?
(CROWD CHEERING)
If Georges wants it
to go to the ground, it will.
If Georges doesn't want it
to go to the ground, it won't.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(ROACH TALKING, INDISTINCT)
- If you came in tight...
(MUTTERING)
Boom! See, now
I have time to move.
I have distance to follow you.
- Yes, sir!
- Georges is one of those guys,
when you teach him something,
when he's just getting the hang of it,
and he's just kind of feeling
his way through it.
And then he goes home,
and the next day, he comes back
and he has it perfectly down.
Good!
(ROACH):
And I just say to myself.
"I wonder how long he worked
in the mirror last night?"
(ANNOUNCER):
Nice Superman punch!
Led with the left,
followed with a kick.
- You see some of Georges' fights.
He just walked through 'em so easy.
Those are the things
we work on, though.
(GRUNTING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
A lot of people watch
Georges and be like:
"Oh, he does
the Superman punch!"
Georges knows when
he's doing it. They don't.
We do it in a way that we know
is gonna work to benefit him in a fight.
(ANNOUNCER 1): Nice!
(ANNOUNCER 2):
Superman punch!
- One thing about fighters,
we have to have a killer instinct,
and that's what that wolf in me
and Georges have in common.
(GROWLING)
If we hurt somebody,
we know to go for the kill.
(ANNOUNCER 1): Yeah!
Sean Sherk looks to be in pain.
His nose might be broken there.
(CROWD CHEERING)
He's coming up. That's it!
(ANNOUNCER 2): That's it!
(ANNOUNCER 1):
That's it! Wow!
I believe Sean Sherk
has a broken nose.
- I fought Hughes the first time.
He beat me fair and square.
I'm gonna go on my knees like that
and ask the UFC management
to give me a world-title shot.
Please! I want the belt so bad!
Give it to me!
I'm not gonna do
one mistake this time.
Give me a chance for the belt.
Thank you very much!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(LAUGHING)
(MUFFLED BASS IN CAR)
(MAN ON RADIO): He grew up
in St. Isidore, Quebec
where he trained in
his parent's dusty basement.
(ANNOUNCER):
Two UFC warriors
have now entered the Octagon
to go to war for the @nd time
to see who will
leave the champion!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(MAN LAUGHING): Yeah!
(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
(ZAHABI): You'll see
the stare down in this fight.
Georges is looking right at him.
- Shake hands!
- I REMEMBER ASKING GEORGES:
"Are you scared of him? You fear him?"
AND HE'S LIKE: "No."
"I wanna see it at the stare down.
"I wanna look in your eyes
and see if you're scared."
'Cause the first fight, Georges will look
everywhere but Matt Hughes.
And look at that face he's making.
He's back.
(ANNOUNCER):
The welterweight championship!
- Here we go! Are you ready?
Are you ready? Let's get it on!
(CROWD CHEERING,
MAN SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
(ANNOUNCER TALKING, INDISTINCT)
(CROWD CHEERING,
ANNOUNCERS TALKING, INDISTINCT)
(ANNOUNCER):
Matt's standing on his feet!
Nice work by Georges St-Pierre here!
He cleans up very well.
(ANNOUNCER TALKING, INDISTINCT)
He is doing a greatjob...
(ANNOUNCER 2): Wow!
(ANNOUNCER 1):...of scrambling
out of that takedown.
- Whoo!
(ANNOUNCER 1):
Oh! Great kick!
(ANNOUNCERS):
Oh! Great kick!
(ANNOUNCERS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
(ANNOUNCERS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
(ALL CHEERING)
(ANNOUNCER 2): The champion!
Unbelievable shot!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
(CROWD CHEERING AND
CHANTING, INDISTINCT)
To be able to be world champion
in the most prestigious organization
of the mixed martial arts,
it was the greatest
achievement of my life.
(WIND BLOWING)
(SNARLING)
(EXHALING)
(GROWLING)
(SNARLING)
I've been angry one time during a fight
and I lost that fight.
- Georges had just won the world title,
so now he's in the ring,
fighting for his first title defence,
and got knocked out in
the 1st round. Round One.
I don't know, probably,
like, 30 seconds of the fight.
And he was knocked out.
So it looks like Georges isn't
all Georges is made out to be.
- EVERYBODY SAID:
"Matt Serra has no chance."
He was an eight to one favourite.
Everybody told Georges:
"You're too tall. You're too strong.
You're too fast. You're too..."
Everybody around him was
telling me how he's unbeatable,
and this fight is a joke.
You know what?
Matt Serra didn't believe that.
- This is not figure skating.
This is not synchronized swimming.
This is the hardest game
in human sports,
and when you're the baddest
motherfucker on the planet
like Georges St-Pierre,
you can't have an off day.
(CROWD CHEERING AND WHISTLING)
- I remember
he caught me with a punch.
(ANNOUNCERS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
And I got angry.
Because everybody
were expecting me to win.
(ANNOUNCERS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
I'm a very proud person and I wanted
to give it back to him right away.
(ANNOUNCERS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(ANNOUNCERS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
(ANNOUNCER 1): Matt Serra
is the welterweight champion of the world!
(ANNOUNCER 2):
That was incredible!
- That day was the most
humiliating day of my life.
(ANNOUNCER 2): You know, we've talked
about his punching power before.
That was incredible!
(MAN): Fucking awesome!
- But I learned a big lesson.
(ANNOUNCER 2): Wow!
- Left my ego
outside of the Octagon.
(GROWLING)
- Georges had a lot of mental issues.
He had to figure out
how to get over this hump,
that he'd just been knocked out.
That's something very fragile.
That's something very
delicate for a fighter,
to have just been knocked out
for the first time in his life.
- Normally, when I go to fight,
I fight like there is no tomorrow.
In that fight, I felt like I had
some stuff to do after the fight.
So I didn't fight like I had
no tomorrow, you know? It was weird.
I need to regroup
and think about it.
- We brought in
a sports psychologist,
and working with him,
trying to get him over that hump.
"Yes, you got knocked out.
"But it doesn't mean this guy's
gonna knock you out again.
"It doesn't mean that
you can't strike with him.
"Your striking is better."
(BOTH GRUNTING)
"You're gonna
have to believe that."
(BOTH GRUNTING)
- Georges is pretty honest.
I mean, I would say
he's very, very honest, in fact.
And his honesty
is one of the reasons
that he's able to get so good.
I think that Matt Serra fight
made him far more dangerous,
because he realizes
that every opponent
must be treated like
the greatest fight of your life,
like you're literally
fighting for your existence.
(GROWLING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD CHEERING LOUDLY)
(ANNOUNCER 1): Serra turns.
GSP doesn't stop.
St-Pierre now has his back.
@0 seconds remains.
More knees by GSP!
Georges St-Pierre
is the undisputed UFC
welterweight champion!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(ANNOUNCER 2):
Georges "Rush".
St-Pierre!
- Whoo!
(MAN):
Canada! Qubec!
(CROWD CHEERING)
- Georges St-Pierre,
what do you say
to some of those critics
who, well, still don't believe
that MMA is a real sport?
Do you think this validates it
by winning this award
that people's opinions
may have started to change?
- Well, it's a sport, but
it's a little bit complicated.
Because you can say:
"I'm gonna play hockey.
I'm gonna play football."
BUT YOU CAN'T SAY:
"I'm gonna play MMA."
(GEORGES ON TV):
It's not a game.
(MOTORCYCLE PASSES)
(GEORGES SPEAKING FRENCH)
Walking on the sidewalk,
I don't want to step into a crack.
Because if I step into a crack,
in my head, something
bad is gonna happen.
And if I do step into a crack,
and I found out I stepped
into a crack with my left foot,
I'm gonna have to
step with my right foot
to make an equal number.
I know it's completely ridiculous."
- Fights look like
they're full of drama.
And it's the dramatic elements
that bring people to watch fights.
The fights are not won on drama.
Fights are won
on small, mundane details.
And that's the difference
between an amateur and a professional.
(GEORGES): Sometimes, in training,
the guys I train with,
they pass, like, maybe 20 techniques.
I hate doing this,
'cause me, I take one technique,
and I'm gonna repeat it.
I could repeat the same
technique for an hour.
But I'm gonna repeat it,
repeat it, repeat it.
The chemistry of your brain
and your muscle,
that when you do the movement...
YOU KNOW, YOU DO THE MOVEMENT:
Boom! Boom!
The movement will become
more efficient as you're doing it.
Almost perfect.
Almost perfection.
(GEORGES GRUNTING)
- It's actually the foot
that's the remote control
of the rest of the entire body.
Balance is supremely important.
The best martial artists,
they have a lot of grace,
and they slide across the Octagon
in a very fluid, a very efficient manner,
almost like a ballet dancer.
You know, for me as a trainer,
I only use the Olympic sports.
I prefer using the Olympic sports
to train my athletes,
because the Olympic sports
are the most refined sports.
- It's like seeing
Mickey Mantle play baseball.
It's like seeing
Muhammad Ali box.
And it really
becomes a matter of:
"Can someone come along
that can crack your style?
"Can someone come along that finds
that one hole in your armour?
"Can someone come along
that has studied you
"and has physical
attributes similar to yours
"or enough to nullify yours,
and has an added equation?"
(DIAZ): I don't get
a lot of recognition
for, uh, you know, what I've-
what I've set out to do here.
Yeah, I'm coming
to whoop this guy's ass,
and then, you know,
before you know it...
Nobody knows who I am.
- When you become champion,
you become the target.
Everybody wants
to have what you have.
You become the target
for many, many people.
(CROWD CHEERING)
- Nick Diaz is a fantastic fighter.
He has got this insane,
elite pace of cardio
that he can put a guy into.
They can't keep up.
He also has very,
very good boxing.
He's just touching you,
constantly touching you,
touching you, smacking you.
And those little 50%,
60% shots are very effective.
...fill that hole I called it...
And all this shit-talking
that he does...
- I'M LIKE: "Hey, if
these (BLEEP) did their job
and made this sport look good,
did their (BLEEP) job.
Now you can't get rid
of this (BLEEP). It's MMA.
(ROGAN): People think he's dumb.
They think he's a street kid.
(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
(ROGAN):
He is very clever.
- I don't know what
the fuck. Fucking shit!
He's a little fucker!
I don't know what the fuck did that.
- And that element of
emotion and intensity and anger,
along with his insane cardio,
is terrifying.
- What are you at, Georges?
- Whoa, whoa!
(MEN AND WOMEN): Whoa!
- I have to go with the guy
that I want to fight the most.
Now is the time
for Nick Diaz. Believe me.
- Fuck it!
- Diaz deserves a fight.
(ECHOING):
- Where you at, Georges?
(CROWD CHEERING)
Where you at?
(SIGHING)
- I'm so fucking nervous, it's crazy.
(ZAHABI): Georges got
injured during practice.
- This is medication.
(PILLS RATTLING)
- He was warned by the doctors
not to keep training.
He had a sprained knee.
He didn't want
to hear anybody say
that there's even a possibility
that we're not doing this fight.
The way Georges was moving,
I could tell he was overcompensating.
The doctors warned us about that,
that when you have
one injury on one side,
you're risking both knees,
not the one that's injured only.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
Now we're gonna see Georges...
Right there. We found
out he had a torn ACL.
(GEORGES ON COMPUTER): Fuck!
- There's no way he's gonna
have 2 bad knees in a fight,
so I was very concerned.
After he cooled down,
he was in a lot of pain,
and he felt his knee unstable.
The doctor checked his knee,
and that was the end of it.
Oh, yoy yoy!
(SIGHING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(ANNOUNCER 1): Whoa!
Nick Diaz trying to finish him!
(HORN BLARING)
- Okay, break!
(ANNOUNCER 1): They go the distance!
(ANNOUNCER 2): What a fight!
(ANNOUNCER 1):
B.J. Penn, Nick Diaz!
(CROWD CHEERING)
- I won that shit!
(ANNOUNCER 3): The judges'
score in this contest:
@9-@8 @9-@7 and @9-@8
,,.
Declaring the winner,
by unanimous decision:
Nick Diaz!
(ANNOUNCER 1): Nick Diaz, the winner!
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
(ANNOUNCER 3): Give us
your thoughts on the fight
and tell me what
you're thinking right now.
- Uh...
(MAN): Georges St-Pierre!
Call out that motherfucker!
(ANNOUNCER 3): I see you walking around,
you've been screaming "Georges,"
even though you just beat B.J. Penn
in an outstanding fight.
What's on your mind right now?
- I don't think Georges is hurt.
He's scared.
I think he's scared
to fight everybody right now.
What's up? Where you at, Georges?
(CROWD CHEERING)
- I've known Georges St-Pierre
since 2004,
and he's one of the nicest guys
I've ever met,
and he's always,
you know, exactly the same,
no matter what the situation is,
no matter who he's fighting.
Since 2004, I've never seen him
like he was tonight.
He said that Nick Diaz...
I quote...
You're gonna think I'm full of shit,
but this is the truth.
I QUOTE: "He's the most
disrespectful human being.
"I've ever met, and I'm gonna
put the worst beating
"you've ever seen on him in the UFC,"
is what Georges St-Pierre said.
(ZAHABI): Georges, at that time,
was going through
a lot of heartache
and he had to maybe
even possibly retire.
Maybe his knee will
never be the same.
He had all these doubts and,
you know, all this anger inside him,
and this guy was just taunting him
in front of the world.
(DIAZ): I don't know
what he's going through
with the dark side,
or where he comes from...
- He swore to me,
over and over again.
He's gonna find him in the cage
and get his hands on him.
- The morning of the surgery,
I was so nervous.
I'm not gonna lie, you know.
I was afraid to never come back.
I was afraid my body would reject my graft.
That was a possibility.
- And down here in the bottom
is regarding your advanced
directive and living will.
Do you have a living will?
- Uh, sorry?
- A living will?
- Sometimes, patients will have
an advanced directive in case of emergency.
What your wishes to be...
Do you have something like that ready?
(BEAULIEU SPEAKING FRENCH):
- Oh! I have nothing like that.
(BEAULIEU): He gives
everything to me. It's okay!
(GEORGES LAUGHING)
- You're the lucky one.
(BEAULIEU): You're all right, man!
- Oh, my God! Oh! God!
I hate this! Oh!
(EKG MONITOR BEEPING)
- Hi, there!
- It hurts. It hurts, my knee.
It hurts.
- I'm gonna pull up some chairs
for you guys, okay?
(WOMAN):
Thank you very much.
(BEAULIEU AND GEORGES LAUGHING)
- Oh yeah...
People don't believe me...
Never took it in my life.
(WOMAN):
Oh, he did?
So bad!
(MONITOR BEEPING)
- Hey, Vera?
(VERA): Yes, sir?
- Did you wrestle around
with him a little bit?
- I tried, but
he pinned me down.
- She pinned me down!
It's gonna hurt a little bit, or...
- That's already 30 degrees.
- No alcohol or anything while
you're taking the pain pills.
- No, of course, of course.
- I don't wanna take
the bandage off for a week.
- 'Cause it's going to be
painful for at least 4 days.
- Okay, that's enough.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
- When I got hurt,
I was afraid that the injury
that I had was a very serious one.
It happened many times in the past
that an athlete had
a similar injury, an ACL tear,
and never came back
the same, or end his career.
Wow! I haven't seen
my leg for a long time.
(WOMAN): Mm-hmm!
- Oy oy oy!
That's why I left Montreal,
and I made sure
that I surround myself
with the best person in the world.
Wow! Wow! Look at this! Oh, my God!
(EXHALING SHARPLY)
It feels so good to take it off.
Perfect!
(CHUCKLING)
Georges!
- Be good!
(ANNOUNCER TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
(WOMAN): You betcha!
- Hey, how are you?
- I'm good. How are you?
- I'm very good!
- That's good.
(GRUNTING)
- This looks absolutely beautiful.
Georges, that's about as solid
as I can make an ACL.
- Yeah?
- So, just this one's gonna
turn on. There. Better.
(MAN): My pleasure.
(MAN): Take care, guy!
- Thank you!
It's a process getting in there.
Yes, sir! Yes, sir!
- You know, who knows,
maybe Georges isn't really hurt.
Anybody see any pictures of surgery?
'Cause I haven't. I don't know.
Maybe they are everywhere,
and everyone knows about it.
I just haven't seen it.
I wanna see some photograph, video.
I'M NOT SAYING: "Georges ain't hurt."
I don't know.
You're working out already?
I've had friends have surgery
on their knee.
I figure,
I let you chop my knee open,
I ain't gonna be fighting for the
next year. Know what I mean?
(GRUNTING LOUDLY)
(MAN TALKING, INDISTINCT)
- Aaah!
(GRUNTING)
(FEMALE TRAINER): Two, three...
...five, six, seven.
(GRUNTING)
- I'm very anxious, because
I see all those challengers
fighting each other
and getting better.
- I was supposed
to fight Georges St-Pierre.
(CONDIT): My endurance has
always been a strong point.
(MALE NARRATOR) On February 4th,
Georges St-Pierre's
title is up for grabs.
It's the fight of the year.
- Georges St-Pierre's out.
Now, Condit and Diaz are gonna
fight for the interim title.
- Me, I'm staying here, and I'm...
You know, I feel like I'm doing
stationary bicycle, you know?
(MALE NARRATOR):
Carlos Condit. Nick Diaz.
It's gonna be a dog fight.
(GEORGES): I pray that Nick Diaz
wins the fight every night.
I'm always at my best
when I'm pushed against a wall.
When I'm fighting a guy that insults me
and questions my integrity,
it lights more fire in myself.
(PANTING)
(TRAIN WHISTLE
BLOWING IN DISTANCE)
(CROWD CHEERING)
- What? Come on!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD): Oh!
(ANNOUNCER 1): Oh!
(ANNOUNCER 1):
Final seconds of the fight!
Condit's up!
Condit's on top of him!
(HORN BLARING)
(ANNOUNCER 2):
It is over!
The judges will
render their decision.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(ANNOUNCER):
Ladies and gentlemen,
the interim UFC welterweight
champion of the world,
the Natural Born Killer,
Carlos Condit!
- I don't need this (BLEEP).
I pushed this guy backwards.
The whole time he ran from me.
He ran this whole fight.
I landed the harder shots.
He ran the whole time.
He kicked me in my leg
with little baby leg kicks
the whole fight.
(BEAULIEU SPEAKING FRENCH):
- I truly aim for November,
fighting for the title
against the champion, Carlos Condit.
It's gonna be very hard
to come back from that injury.
It's been a long time.
I'm gonna be rusty.
But you know what?
It's a challenge.
I'm gonna be the underdog,
and that's what drives me.
- Doctor!
- How are you?
- Oh yeah! I'm excited.
- Good to see you.
- I haven't been excited since...
- How are you?
(LAUGHING):...since prom!
- Horrible!
- There's a, you know,
5 or 6 times higher chance,
if you've had an ACL tear,
of having another ACL tear
than somebody that's
never had an ACL tear.
(GEORGES): Of course.
(WOMAN): Oh, my!
- Just keeping...
All of the vectors are perfect.
- So, when do you
feel any difference?
- Let's say I have
to change direction faster,
because I didn't do that
for more than 6 months,
I feel a little bit...
I'm not confident, you know?
This, I can do...
- Yeah.
- No problem. But the same
side is kind of hard for me.
And the guy I'm fighting is a good...
He's good...
Shut down.
Shut down this, because...
(MAN): Oh, really? This?
- No, no! It's important
because it's strategic.
- But it's not gonna ever...
- Don't put that on YouTube, though, eh?
(MAN LAUGHING): No, no!
- The guy I'm fighting,
he's a good striker, you know?
So I would, maybe,
wrestle a lot with him
and try to put him down, but I need...
You know, my patella,
when I do it like this,
I feel it's not 100%, you know?
Like, I will not be comfortable.
Like, on this knee, yeah,
to fall straight from... Boom!
You know, like this? But this,
I would not feel confident.
- Okay, so we're gonna gradually
go on matted surfaces.
I'm not worried about
the patella fracturing,
but he's gotta feel
comfortable when he lands on it,
that he's not expecting pain.
- When Georges was
out for 9 months,
he had to slowly
start back again.
And I was there for day one,
and let me tell you,
it's one slow process.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(ZAHABI): I brought in
amateurs smaller than him.
He was too tired
to do 3 rounds of 3 minutes.
(GRUNTING AND PANTING)
He wasn't coordinated.
He wasn't able to take them down.
He couldn't stop their takedowns.
He couldn't jab them.
He wasn't able to do
his Superman punch.
He had forgotten everything.
(PANTING)
- I'm always afraid
to be humiliated.
I'm afraid to be knocked out.
I'm afraid to be "submissed."
I'm afraid to
not be able to deliver
as much as I think I should deliver
or be able to deliver
as much as people expected.
(WIND BLOWING)
(SQUAWKING)
(CROW SQUAWKING)
(BRAKES SQUEALING)
- When GSP takes to the Octagon
Saturday night,
nearly 19 months will have passed
since he last defended
his UFC welterweight championship.
Last fall, as many of you are aware,
St-Pierre suffered a knee injury.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(FERRARO): Did you have
any doubt in your ability
to overcome this and get back
to being the best in the world?
- I always have doubts.
I always... I'm always scared.
You can be in shape,
but being in fighting shape
is something very different.
- The ACL is a career killer.
Not many people have
ever come back from ACL.
What do you say to the fans
that are concerned about your safety
stepping in there on Saturday?
- I would not have been here
if I would not feel 100%,
so I feel very good right now.
I'm ready to go.
- Guys that have ACL surgery, within
a few months, they feel like 100%.
Boom! They're back in the gym,
they're training,
but a couple weeks later...
(CLICKS TONGUE)
Gone, pops again,
and that makes things way worse.
(MAN): GSP!
(CARS HONKING)
- Let's go, GSP!
- Whoo!
- Whoa!
- All right! GSP is back!
- Whoa!
- Whoa! GSP!
- GSP!
(LAUGHING)
(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
- I almost told him
not to take the Condit fight.
I TOLD HIM: "If today's
a good day, we don't look bad.
"If today's a bad day, it's over."
(ZAHABI): Was his instinct there?
Were the jitters gonna be under control?
Was he gonna hesitate to pull the trigger?
These were all
questions nobody knows.
(CROWD CHEERING AND WHISTLING)
(MAN): We gotta go! Camera's on!
- Putting the belt on!
(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
- Boom!
(ROARING)
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
- You'll do a good job.
- Yeah. Yeah.
(CROWD):
GSP! GSP! GSP!
- And now,
it is...
time!
Five rounds for the undisputed.
UFC welterweight championship
of the world,
brought to you
by the United States Marine Corps.
"The few, the proud, the marines!"
(CROWD): GSP! GSP!
GSP! GSP! GSP!
(REFEREE):
Step back, please. Thank you.
Are you ready, Mr. Condit?
You ready? Fight!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(HORN BLOWING) Break!
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
- Breathe, Carlos, breathe,
all right? Big breaths!
(TALKING, INDISTINCT)
Fight!
- Let's go!
(HORN BLOWING)
- Break!
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
(ZAHABI): I really felt
that we were able
to formulate a game plan
that would not allow Condit
even to come close
to win a round.
Give your life on it!
- Fight!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD GROANING)
(FERRARO): I remember
the Bell Center, the silence!
If you were a Georges St-Pierre fan,
you were scared.
The face of mixed martial arts
was about to change.
(BOTH GROWLING)
(ZAHABI): I just locked
my eyes on Georges.
I wanted to see
if his eyes were still there.
- Carlos Condit was just trying
to beat the crap out of him,
and Georges was covering up,
covering up, covering up.
And then he got back up.
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
Wow!
(CROWD CHEERING)
- His instincts just took over.
- It was a great comeback.
- You've kicked me. So what?
- I don't have an explanation for it.
- "Now, I'm gonna get up and carry on."
- Unbelievable!
- Break!
(CROWD): GSP! GSP!
(NO DIALOGUE)
GSP! GSP! GSP!
GSP! GSP!
(ANNOUNCER ON MIKE): Ladies
and gentlemen, after 5 rounds,
we go to the judges'
scorecards for a decision.
The judges scored this contest
49-46, 50-45 and 50-45.
Declaring the winner,
by unanimous decision,
le gagnant and still
the undisputed.
UFC welterweight
champion of the world,
Georges "Rush" St-Pierre!
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
(TALKING, INDISTINCT)
- Bonjour, Kristof!
- Oh!
(ZAHABI): After the fight,
it was just smiles everywhere.
Everywhere you looked,
there was a smile.
- This is the greatest comeback
I've ever witnessed.
And I think, in sports,
it's really up there.
Oh, my God!
- The gate was $3.143 million.
Attendance was 17,249.
The Fight of the Night
goes to GSP and Condit.
- And Nick Diaz says
on Twitter, apparently,
he's not impressed
by my performance.
(LAUGHING)
(WHITE): Who said that?
- Nick Diaz. Uh...
(LAUGHING)
I said I did better than
Nick did against Carlos,
but it was a tough fight.
(SENSEI SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)
(CHILDREN SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)
(SENSEI AND CHILDREN
SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)
(LAUGHING)
Hey! Go!
(MAN): Stop, stop, stop, stop it!
No! Stop it!
(CAMERA CLICKING)
Domo arigato.
(LAUGHING)
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
- That was fun!
- They're cute!
(CHUCKLING)
(SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(ALL LAUGHING)
Thank you, thank you.
- 20 million yen?
(DIAZ): I pull up to
a stoplight the other day,
and some fucking 40-year-old lady,
some soccer mom,
sticks her head out
the window, and she's, like:
I'M, LIKE: "Are you serious?"
I'm living in
a fucking small town
full of people that hate me,
and now I'm the most
disrespectful person
that walks the Earth
and I deserve
to have the shit beat out of me.
'Cause you know what?
When you say something,
everybody believes it.
Everybody wants to know
what Georges thinks,
what he says and wants
to look like him and:
(GEORGES): Have you
listened to yourself, Nick?
- I can do a greatjob
of explaining
and making things real for
what they are, motherfucker.
(GEORGES):
He was saying that I had sex
with my own mother, you know?
Like, the M-word, MF-word.
- Why is Nick Diaz so personal?
I think it has a lot
to do with the fact that
Nick called him out while he was
sidelined, while he was injured.
- I don't think Georges is hurt!
I think he's scared
to fight right now!
What's up?
Where you at, Georges?
- Georges St-Pierre said:
"I really feel like I have
unfinished business with Diaz,
"and I'd like to fight him."
You know, the guy's never
asked us for anything.
He's an awesome champion.
He does anything we ask of him.
He wants to fight Diaz?
It's not like people don't wanna see it.
(DIAZ): I hope so, motherfucker!
If I had that much money,
I'd be fucking pampering
myself the fuck up!
- If I would go and
answer back to Nick Diaz
and say F-word and this and that...
Of course I wanna do it.
There is nobody...
You know what I mean?
I wanna answer back.
I would like, you know, to...
But it's not...
Like I said, I stand for something
bigger than myself.
Even though I wanna do it,
I have a line of conduct,
and I want to respect that.
(DIAZ):
- There are two words in this
PHRASE: "mother" and "fucker."
This would imply strongly
that the person to whom
the term is directed
literally has sex
with their own mother.
However, Nick Diaz does not
use it in this fashion.
He uses it to mean "human being."
(DIAZ):
- Good morning, motherfucker!
Excuse me, motherfucker!
- He makes me angry!
I shouldn't lose my cool.
- Listen, what we have to do...
- He made me angry.
- Laugh and smile at him.
Let's break this down.
What was the pivotal
moment of this interview?
I'll tell you what it was...
- When I said I don't fear him.
I'm not afraid of him.
- Exactly, there was a "before" moment
and an "after" moment.
When you said:
(GEORGES):
- At that moment,
Nick Diaz switched tactics.
He went from testing
the waters with wild aggression
to playing the role of victim.
That's what's gonna
happen in this fight.
He's gonna get bolder
and bolder by the minute.
But if you come back hard
with effective,
technically-based aggression,
he's gonna become
like a spoiled brat,
and he's gonna back down,
he's gonna lose the fight.
(ROGAN): He's dangerous!
The ground and pound with Nick
Diaz is gonna be very tough.
He's a very skilled fighter.
It's beating guys
like Nick Diaz...
Or should I say facing the challenge
of a guy like Nick Diaz...
That truly makes greatness.
- Georges likes to say
I remind him of the bullies
that picked on him growing up
or that he had to deal with.
You know, I'm gonna say:
How many times have
you had a gun to your head?
How many times has someone
put a gun to your head?
How many of your best friends
have been shot through the chest with a.45?
How many kids put gum
in your hair, growing up?
I mean, we have to deal
with these things.
- I'm sure my past
doesn't compare to Nick's,
and I don't even know
why we're asking this question.
The reason why we're fighting each other
is because I believe Nick
is the best guy right now
in mixed martial arts,
and I'm fighting him
because he's the best guy.
It has nothing to do with...
- Yeah, but you told the fans
that I deserved to get beaten down,
and you told the fans that
I chase you around or you...
- You told the fans I was
scared of you and avoiding you.
- I got the fight, right?
You can understand that.
- Absolutely.
- I'm working towards something.
Isn't that what happened?
That's what happened, bro.
- Do you really think
I'm afraid of you?
- Man, that's fine. Okay, no, I don't.
- You think I'm afraid of you, man?
Are you crazy in your head, man?
I'm not scared of you!
You'll see Saturday
if I'm scared of you!
- Okay, I'm intimidating, right?
That's my plan, to intimidate you out?
(GROWLING)
(ROACH): For the wolf,
it's live or die.
And for us in the ring,
it's live or die.
(ANNOUNCER):
And now...
it's time!
Five rounds for the undisputed.
UFC welterweight
championship of the world!
Fighting out of the blue corner...
(DIAZ): Where you at, Georges?
(ROGAN): When they
question Georges's will,
and they question
Georges's confidence
and Georges's resolve...
it's so dumb!
It's the worst thing you can do.
He's lived with
this demon of doubt
that he knows for a fact
is bullshit,
and he's there to shove it
right down your fucking throat.
- Protect yourself at all times.
Obey my command at all times.
If you wanna touch gloves,
do it now, go back to your corners.
Fight!
(SOFT MUSIC)
(SOFT MUSIC)
- No, it's nothing.
- Yeah.
(CROWD): GSP! GSP! GSP!
(CROWD): GSP! GSP! GSP!
GSP! GSP! GSP!
(CHEERING)
(SOFT MUSIC)
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(DAHANER):
Georges got off at the airport
after around @@ hours
in a plane,
and he went straight
to a local gym.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
"22 hours on a plane?
No fucking problem.
"There's a gym. Let's go train."
In normal life,
I'm a very peaceful guy.
But what I do for a living,
my work, is to win a fight.
And in order to win a fight,
sometimes I need
to hurt my opponent.
These two things
contradict each other.
(THE HEAVY SINGING
HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW)
Now there was a time.
When you loved me so.
I could have been wrong.
But now you needed to know.
See, I've been a bad,
bad, bad, bad man.
And I'm in deep.
Yes, I am.
I found a brand-new
love for this man.
And I can't wait till you see.
I can't wait.
So, how you like me now?
How you like me now?
How you like me now?
How you like me now?
How you like me now?
How you like me now?
How you like me now?
How you like me now?
Remember the time.
When I eat you up?
Yeah, I wasn't lying.
Oh, yes Hey.
If I was to cheat on you.
Now, would you see right through me?
If I sing a sad,
sad, sad, sad song.
Would you give it to me?
Would you?
So, how you like me now?
How you like me now?
How you like me now?
How you like me now?
Does that make you love me, baby?
Does that make you want me, baby?
Does that make you love me, baby?
Does that make you want me, baby?
Oh yeah.
Oh! Oh yeah