Retired UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre isn’t impressed with the trash talk – or fighters’ reactions to it – going on in the MMA world these days. GSP told The MMA Hour that fighters take things too personally, doing stupid things, when in reality the trash talk is just about getting eyes on the fight and money for the fighters.
“Things get out of hand. I think guys, they take it too personal. For me, it never mattered what my opponent was saying to me. For me, it’s not personal, it’s about business, and the more he was trash-talking me, the more, in a way, I was making money.
GSP on Modern MMA Trash Talk: “Things get out of hand”
So I really have to give a big thank you to all the ferocious opponents I had who were trash-talking me, because they built up the fight in a better, interesting way for the audience, so I made more money. It’s good for business.”
GSP went on to point out that he kept his private life private for a very good reason. As a result, the kind of mud-slinging we’ve seen between Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington was never an option for his opponents.
“There’s a reason why I never put my family and my real private life public. It’s because I know if someone wants to get to me, it’s easy for me. It comes from one ear and it goes out the other one and I don’t take it personal.
But if you tried to get to someone that I love or someone in my family, now it’s gonna be a different story. So that’s why I always tried to hide this part of my life. Because I am a public person, so this part, it’s public, it’s for the fans, but my private life, for me it’s even more precious to me.
To compare with my career, my life is a million times better than what I’ve done in my career, but I keep it secret because it’s my private life. It’s my diamond. It’s my treasure.
Most guys don’t think like that. A lot of them, sometimes they want to use their families to build up a better platform, to showcase their […] that’s okay too.
It’s just for me, I knew coming from a martial arts background, it’s not a game that we play, and if you want to get to someone to make him lose his chill, there’s a way to get to someone and that’s to attack someone that he loves.
Sometimes that’s a better way than to attack the person himself, and I knew that, and I didn’t want to give the chance to my opponents to use that against me.
The Art of War, my friend! The Art of War!” Is GSP right? Let us know in the comments.
