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Kerrzy’s Notebook: One Win Away…

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

If everything goes to plan at the end of April, a lot of fight fans will finally get their wish…

Georges St. Pierre will defend his welterweight crown against Jake Shields in front of a record crowd at UFC 129 on April 30th. Should he win, organization president Dana White has promised a tilt between GSP and middleweight champ Anderson Silva – a “dream fight” that would go a long way in determining the outright best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA.

Silva is coming off a solid victory over fellow Brazilian Vitor Belfort and if St. Pierre can get past Shields, both fighters will have basically cleaned out their divisions. For this fight to happen though, GSP will have to give up his title and move up to 185-pounds (from 170), a challenge in itself.

So the question is: When the fight is over, whose arm will be raised? (more…)

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Kerrzy’s Notebook: Random Friday Thoughts

Friday, December 10th, 2010

GSP vs. Gretzky?

In any country around the world that speaks hockey, Wayne Gretzky is probably regarded as the most famous Canadian the people there can think of – after all, he’s easily the greatest player ever to lace ‘em up.

What about the rest of the world though? If you polled the entire globe, asking who the most famous Canadian athlete is, who would it be?

If you ask UFC President Dana White, it’s welterweight champion Georges “Rush” St. Pierre!

Both White and St. Pierre are in Montreal ahead of UFC 124, where the Canadian will defend his title against Josh Koscheck on Saturday night. So, with White calling St. Pierre the most famous athlete “in the history of the world” to come out of our country, reporters were left asking “What about Wayne Gretzky?(more…)

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