{"id":365904,"date":"2020-10-28T06:40:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=365904"},"modified":"2020-10-28T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:40:31","slug":"georges-st-pierre-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-mma-goat-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/georges-st-pierre-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-mma-goat-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre shares his thoughts on the MMA GOAT debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georges St-Pierre has offered up his thoughts on the ever-present debate regarding who the GOAT of mixed martial arts really is.<\/p>\n<p>St-Pierre, who last fought back in November 2017, has been a man in demand over the course of the last few days in the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/georges-st-pierre-says-khabib-nurmagomedov-had-the-perfect-career\/\">Khabib Nurmagomedo<\/a>v&#8217;s retirement. Many fans and pundits alike were hoping that St-Pierre would go head to head with Nurmagomedov somewhere down the road, but now, it doesn&#8217;t appear as if it&#8217;s ever likely to happen.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with ESPN, St-Pierre weighed in on the revived argument as to who the greatest of all time in MMA might be.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Georges St-Pierre reacts to Khabib Nurmagomedov\u2019s retirement at UFC 254 | Ariel Helwani\u2019s MMA Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XeyI4y7zn7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s many guys that have been the greatest fighter of all-time,\u201d St-Pierre said in an interview with ESPN (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/10\/28\/21537057\/midnight-mania-georges-st-pierre-khabib-goat-jon-jones-ufc-espn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s an impossible thing to be, the greatest fighter of all-time. We all have moments that we shine, that we share that greatest of all-time. Khabib, tonight, what we saw in his performance was the greatest of all-time. Anderson Silva when he knocked out Vitor Belfort was the greatest of all-time. Jon Jones when he beat Daniel Cormier or [Alexander] Gustafsson also, was the greatest of all-time. [Israel] Adesanya, when he beat Paulo Costa last time, it was the greatest of all-time. Everybody, B.J. Penn had his moment when he beat Matt Hughes, everybody has their own moment, their lights, their moment that they shine, but like everything in life everything has a beginning and everything has an end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have our window of being the greatest of all-time,&#8221; St-Pierre added. &#8220;Everybody that has a flawless performance has that title, greatest of all-time, but it\u2019s just a fugazi. It\u2019s something that appears and will disappear in a second. When your performance is over, it disappears, because that moment will never happen again. The universe has changed and it\u2019s just a fugazi. I don\u2019t believe in this debate. It\u2019s a silly way to look at things in a way. There\u2019s many guys that can claim to be the greatest of all-time and for sure Khabib is one of them, 100 percent, especially after what he had done tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Georges St-Pierre?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georges St-Pierre has offered up his thoughts on the ever-present debate regarding who the GOAT of mixed martial arts really is. St-Pierre, who last fought back in November 2017, has been a man in demand over the course of the last few days in the wake of Khabib Nurmagomedov&#8217;s retirement. 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