UFC news: Georges St-Pierre had something to tell about fighters trash talking

Fighters, according to Georges St-Pierre, take trash talk too personally. We’ve seen competitors trash-talk opposition fighters’ families recently, which is why Jorge Masvidal sucker-punched Colby Covington in the street brawl. Dustin Poirier was also upset when Conor McGregor mentioned his wife; however, for St-Pierre, fighters take it too personally because fighters need to understand trash-talking is part of the sport and that it’s good for business and not subjective.

Georges St-Pierre said on The MMA Hour, “Things get out of hand. I think guys, they take it too personally. 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. 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.”

St-Pierre has a valid argument since the more fighters that trash speaks, the greater the fight. As a result, fighters may earn more money through pay-per-view points and become greater celebrities, increasing their income.

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Georges St-Pierre keeps his personal life very private

However, Georges St-Pierre hardly took it personally or was trash-talked so much the reason Georges St-Pierre hardly took it personally or was trash-talked so much was that he kept his personal affairs private. Instead, he wasn’t talking about his family,  he was fighting for himself, so other fighters didn’t have that arsenal against him.

St-Pierre said, “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,” St-Pierre concluded. “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!”