{"id":249192,"date":"2017-09-13T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=249192"},"modified":"2017-09-13T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:00:09","slug":"video-georges-st-pierre-ran-old-bully-inspired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/video-georges-st-pierre-ran-old-bully-inspired\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Georges St-Pierre Ran Into an Old Bully and Inspired Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re still about a month away from UFC 217, but the media around the super-stacked card is already beefing up. With great risk comes greater rewards, as the former king of the welterweight division Georges St-Pierre returns to challenge Michael Bisping for the middleweight title. Coming back after being absent from the sport for so long and capturing a title at a higher weight would be an incredible achievement to place in his legacy. It wasn’t always like this, the MMA GOAT-candidate came from humble beginnings. In a new interview with Hot 97, St-Pierre opened up about getting bullied when he was younger and recently ran into one of the culprits back home.<\/p>\n

“A few months ago, I was in the street and I saw one of the guys that used to bully me. I saw him and he was begging in the street. I don’t know if he\u00a0was homeless, but he was asking for money. When he saw me, he recognized me. I don’t want to mention his name but\u00a0I asked what are you doing here? ‘Can you help me, things are not going well?<\/em>‘\u00a0Man, what are you doing here? You’re tall guy, good looking, what the hell? You’re in good shape.\u00a0 I gave him a few dollars and I told him to get out of here, man. You should be ashamed. You should be embarrassed of what you’re doing. A lot of guy\u00a0would kill to be like you. You’re full of potential. Go do something with your life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Georges<\/p>\n

“Apparently, like a month ago he went to my house where my parents live, knocked at\u00a0the door and he said, ‘Can I talk to Georges?<\/em>‘ My dad says Georges doesn’t live there anymore. He goes, ‘Well, I met him a few months ago and he said something to me to shake me up. I just want to say, he changed my life. Now I have a job\u00a0and I’m doing well and when you see him, tell him I said thank you<\/em>.’ […]\u00a0When I was bullied, I didn’t enjoy it. I make jokes about it. I have a very\u00a0good record as an MMA professional fighter, but if you go in my bullying times, I have a losing record. I got beat up pretty bad.” \u2014<\/span>\u00a0Georges St-Pierre on Hot 97.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just as Peter Rosenberg said in the interview, that’s normally a story that would end with someone getting punched, but Georges St-Pierre decided to help a tormentor from his past. He also may have been saving all his aggression for his long-awaited return to the Octagon. Georges St-Pierre will fight Michael Bisping at UFC 217 on November 4th for the UFC middleweight championship.<\/p>\n