Through the Past Darkly: Reflections on ‘UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit’

For all the things Georges St-Pierre does well, absorbing blows without showing damage isn’t one of them.

It’s easy to forget that, because the man usually just doesn’t get hit all that often. Most of the time he shows up to the post-fight press conf…

For all the things Georges St-Pierre does well, absorbing blows without showing damage isn’t one of them.

It’s easy to forget that, because the man usually just doesn’t get hit all that often. Most of the time he shows up to the post-fight press conference looking like, at worst, he’d stumbled into a prickly bush while cutting across someone’s lawn on the way over here.

This time was different. By the time the third round of his title fight with Carlos Condit at UFC 154 had ended, St-Pierre’s face had already begun to resemble a Rubik’s Cube left out in the rain.