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MONTREAL — Georges St. Pierre smiles the smile of a man who knows something the rest of us don’t know. Whatever it is, we’ll have to wait until Saturday night to find out. Josh Koscheck will, too.
There’s a scary thought about GSP: that as good as he is — and some consider the UFC welterweight champion the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet — he’s just reaching his peak as an athlete. At 29 years old, it’s a feasible theory.
St. Pierre surrounds himself with the greatest coaches and training partners he can find, he obsesses on the little details that will take good to great, and he willingly accepts the notion that the brain is the most underrated and underused weapon in fighting.
He’s evolved to the point that he’s as complete a fighter as exists in the sport, capable of fighting in multiple styles, and because of that variable of the unknown, he thinks challenger Josh Koscheck has no idea what he’s in for at UFC 124. The result, he hopes, is a finish, an endpoint that St. Pierre has been stressing for the last several months.