{"id":226788,"date":"2017-03-08T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=226788"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:03:30","slug":"georges-st-pierre-explains-draining-ufc-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/georges-st-pierre-explains-draining-ufc-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre explains how draining being a UFC champion is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre has not fought in over three years now. The last time &#8216;Rush&#8217; stepped into the Octagon to fight, he was competing against Johny Hendricks in hopes of defending his welterweight title for the 9th time. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/replay-gsp-defeats-hendricks-ufc-167-controversial-decision\/\">St-Pierre and Hendricks went to war over the course of 5 rounds before St-Pierre was awarded the split decision win<\/a> over Hendricks.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the fight, St-Pierre took an indefinite leave of absence. With speculation arising as to why the 170 pound kingpin was walking away from the sport as such a dominant time in his career, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/gsp-surprised-recent-string-ped-busts\/\">St-Pierre pointed to the UFC&#8217;s drug testing policies<\/a>, expressing a dissatisfaction with the lack of thorough drug testing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GSP-interview.png\" alt=\"Georges St-Pierre\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-202770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GSP-interview.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GSP-interview-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GSP-interview-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GSP-interview-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition however, St-Pierre also was tired of the pressure of being champion, as he explained on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufcunfiltered.com\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Unfiltered<\/a> this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI always wanted to come back \u2013 it was in the back of my head,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201cI was not happy with the way the sport was at the time when I stopped. I believe it\u2019s like a triangle: The physical, emotional and mental. If one of these three things doesn\u2019t work well it effects your performance. For me, I had problems with mental and physical. I was tired, I was drained. Carrying a title, it\u2019s a lot of weight on your shoulder. People don\u2019t realize. There\u2019s only a few people that can understand that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to be champion,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s even harder to stay champion. Believe me on that. I had a lot of pressure. \u2026 The time I took off was very good. Things have improved a lot in the sport, and I feel now I\u2019m in my prime, so I don\u2019t want to waste my prime. I love the sport, so I want to go back and make history.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Georges-st-pierre-gsp-gi.png\" alt=\"Georges St-Pierre Gi\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Georges-st-pierre-gsp-gi.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Georges-st-pierre-gsp-gi-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Georges-st-pierre-gsp-gi-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Georges-st-pierre-gsp-gi-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite over three years away from the Octagon, St-Pierre has remained adamant that he is a better fighter than when he left. With that being said, only time will tell if the former champ is able to be as successful at middleweight.<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 3\/8\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre has not fought in over three years now. The last time &#8216;Rush&#8217; stepped into the Octagon to fight, he was competing against Johny Hendricks in hopes of defending his welterweight title for the 9th time. St-Pierre and Hendricks went to war over the course of 5 rounds before St-Pierre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":189464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10140],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Georges St-Pierre explains how draining being a UFC champion is | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre explains the pressure of being a UFC champion ahead of his return to the Octagon.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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