Kick<\/a> broadcast with streamer Adin Ross. \u201cI was there, I witnessed his performance last Saturday. It was freaking brilliant. Unbelievable. I don\u2019t think he even took a punch. It\u2019s unbelievable. A lot of people, \u2018Oh, it was a decision.\u2019 People who say that, I\u2019m sorry, because they don\u2019t know the art of fighting. They have no idea. They don\u2019t understand the art of fighting. His performance was freaking amazing. Yeah, the fight was not a flawless victory with a crazy submission or knockout, but the way going up a weight class and beat Jack Della Maddalena like he did is freaking hard.\u201d<\/p>\nEven though Della Maddalena made it to the final bell, there were multiple points in the bout where the Australian standout appeared to be completely discouraged, either because of injuries suffered in the bout or because he was completely neutralized by Makhachev.<\/p>\n
Losing in that manner can be far more devastating, according to St-Pierre.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think one thing for a fighter that is harder to take when you lose than being knocked out or submitted is going into a decision but getting beat for five rounds and knowing that you\u2019re far\u2014Like, you didn\u2019t get clipped, you didn\u2019t make a mistake,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201cYou lose because that guy is just that much better than you and that could be, for Jack, for example, could be a wake-up call or it could be his downfall or a wake-up call to make him rise to the occasion, to realize like, \u2018Man, I need to work on this, this, this to get better.\u2019 We\u2019ll see what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n
Makhachev is now the 11th UFC fighter to win titles in two divisions and his 16th consecutive victory inside the octagon tied a record with the great Anderson Silva. He is 28-1, with his lone defeat occurring in his second UFC fight in 2015 when he was knocked out by Adriano Martins.<\/p>\n
A strong lineup of welterweight challengers awaits Makhachev, and there is also the possibility he may move up to chase a third title in the future. Whatever Makhachev decides, St-Pierre likes his chances, though he reminds fans that even the all-time greats can lose on any given night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing is anyone can beat anyone,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201cThere is nobody that is invincible. Even though I believe Islam Makhachev is the best fighter pound-for-pound, that doesn\u2019t mean he will always win because it\u2019s not the best fighter that wins the fight, it\u2019s the fighter that fights the best the night of the fight. Same thing in hockey, baseball, basketball, the team on paper who\u2019s the best team doesn\u2019t always win the game. There are certain things that happen that affect the result and that are very often out of our control and that\u2019s why we make fights happen, otherwise it would be boring if we always know who would win. That\u2019s why there are bets, that\u2019s the reason why.<\/p>\n
\u201cIslam right now, I believe he\u2019s the best, but that doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s not someone that stylistically will match him and give him a lot of trouble or probably beat him. It\u2019s very possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre knows what it takes to be a dominant champion and he likes what he\u2019s seen from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-316872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}