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TORONTO — Every once in a while in the fight game, you get a perfectly timed intersection of careers that leads to the two best meeting at their best. We don’t always know it at the time, however. It’s impossible to know the apex of an athlete’s career until he retires and everything can be judged objectively. But it would be hard to imagine that either UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre or challenger Jake Shields isn’t at the top of their game right now.
Between the two, they are a combined 29-1 over their last 30 fights. Since the start of 2005, each has fought 15 times; Shields is unbeaten, St. Pierre lost just once, and later avenged the defeat by dominating Matt Serra in a rematch.
The UFC 129 main event fight clearly features two athletes at the top of their game, and the result could change the way history is viewed.