GSP makes his way to the PIT
@GeorgesStPierre
will join Season 3 of
#KarateCombat as Season Sensei! pic.twitter.com/N1JyvFscA4— Karate Combat (@KarateCombat)
March 17, 2021
Georges St.
Pierre is making a return to the combat sports realm, but he
won’t be competing.
The former UFC middleweight and welterweight champion will join
Karate Combat, a full-contact karate league founded in 2018, in a
commentary role for the organization’s upcoming third season. St.
Pierre’s official title will be “Season Sensei,” as he offers his
“guidance, analysis and insights as the world’s top karate fighters
battle for supremacy in The Pit, Karate Combat’s trademark fighting
arena.”
“My first martial art was karate,” St. Pierre said in a release.
“It was the foundation I built my career on. I always wanted to see
an organization arise which would give a platform for elite
full-contact karate fighters to compete, and that’s what I see in
Karate Combat. I’m a big fan of what Karate Combat is doing and I
hope I can help take things to the next level.”
St. Pierre was a 2nd Dan black belt in Kyokusin Karate by age 12
and was victorious in several national competitions before he moved
to mixed martial arts, where he become one of the sport’s greatest
pound-for-pound fighters of all time. St. Pierre continued to pay
homage to his karate roots during his walkouts, when he would wear
a kimono, black belt and headband on his way to the Octagon.
St. Pierre hasn’t fought since UFC 217 in November 2017, when he
submitted Michael
Bisping at Madison Square Garden to claim the middleweight
championship. The Tristar Gym standout was linked to a matchup with
UFC lightweight king Khabib
Nurmagomedov, but thus far that bout has not come to
fruition.
Season 3 of Karate Combat is currently in production and is
expected to be finished by late April.