Kick<\/a> broadcast with streamer Adin Ross, St-Pierre mentioned he recently spoke to Usman about how to have an optimal retirement.<\/p>\n\u201cI was talking to Kamaru Usman,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201cKamaru, he\u2019s in his late 30s and I said, \u2018Man, I\u2019ve been there and done that. Are you going to compete again?\u2019 He said, \u2018Yeah, I think I\u2019m going to go for one more stretch.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018If you want my advice, Kamaru,\u2019 because I like that guy, I said, \u2018Do what you\u2019ve got to do. Get it out of your system. But get out on top.\u2019 That would be the cherry on top.\u201d<\/p>\n
Usman, 38, recently scored a win over Joaquin Buckley, snapping a three-fight losing streak stretching back to 2021. Having previously defended the welterweight title five consecutive times, Usman\u2019s name still has plenty of cachet, and current champion Islam Makhachev has mentioned wanting to defend his belt against Usman, potentially at UFC White House in June.<\/p>\n
St-Pierre never lost his welterweight title, instead vacating it in 2013 to take time off before his triumphant return against Bisping. He ended his competitive career on a 13-fight win streak and hopes Usman can also go out on a high note, not only to preserves his legacy, but to set himself up for the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only it\u2019s better for your health, also from a business perspective, when you\u2019re an athlete, a fighter and you get out on top, when you get out champion, yeah, of course, you have the impression that you left money on the table,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201c\u2018I should have, I could have done another one, another one.\u2019 That\u2019s our ego talking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe same thing happened to me, but what happens is you have a lot of opportunity that presents itself to you because your stock is worth a lot of money. So health-wise, it\u2019s better, and also business-wise. Yeah, maybe the money it will stretch over a few more years, but imagine if you push it to the limit where you end up losing one, two, three fights straight, now your legacy and that money that you will have received for fighting, that block of money, maybe you will not have it at a stretch of a period of a long time and those opportunities would not be there let\u2019s say I retired on a three-fight losing streak. Time catches everyone, I don\u2019t care who you are. Time catches everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre has a few words of wisdom for his fellow welterweight great. Back in 2019, St-Pierre officially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-312973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}