When Matt Serra eliminated Georges St-Pierre in 2007, it perished as one of the greatest disruptions in combat history.
After he has walked his loss of Matt Hughes and had demanded the UFC-Welterweight title, Georges St-Pierre was booked to fight Matt Serra for his first defending defense.
Serra then outdoors 'Rush' in the first round and scored the biggest upset in the UFC title combat history in the process, making St-Pierre a 'idiot'.
Despite the fact that St-Pierre is generally regarded as the Pound-for-Pound number one at the time, the rivalry that followed as one of the largest in the history of sport will fall.
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Georges St-Pierre explains why he was wearing a brick with the name of Matt Serra
After the historic loss, St-Pierre admitted that it was most humiliating in his career and that it took up much space in his mind.
'Rush' was booked to fight Josh Koscheck only four months after his loss against Serra and he admitted that he could not get the loss out of his mind, so decided to visit a sports psychologist.
“You chased my thoughts,” the Canadian Serra recently said when the two spoke about their rivalry.
“I wanted to come back and erase that wrong, so the sports psychologist said to me:” Georges, you wear a lot of bricks “, so he made me, he wrote (your name on a brick) and let me wear a brick in it my training bag With your name on it.
“I wore that for weeks and weeks and weeks in my bag and it became heavy, because if you go in Tristar, you have to go up the stairs and my bag is already heavy, I thought this was ridiculous,” he continued.
The Weltergege Goat explained that as soon as he was told by his sports psychologist that he could get off the brick, he went to a river in Canada and launched it in the open water.
“I called him as:” Can I get rid of the brick, it's ridiculous? “, He was” no, “and I kept wearing it and I thought:” I'm very tired now, I can now get raf from the Brick? “
“So I went close to the river, grabbed the brick and threw it into the river and it sounds strange, but it is an action that I did that manifest, who had a psychological manifestation on me because I felt,” he said .
St-Pierre rubbed his loss against Serra that the historical title rule will start
Fortunately for the Canadian, the work with the sports psychologist paid dividends, because he was able to immediately return to the Win column with a unanimous decision against Koscheck.
St-Pierre then won the interim title against Hughes in a trilogy fight and earned him a rematch against Serra. 'Rush' only needed two rounds to take revenge on Serra, which brought the rivalry to bed.
That began the start of a historical title run for St-Pierre, which still has the record for the most title defense in the 170LB division.
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