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St-Pierre is two-time and current champion of the UFC's most desired and hotly contested weight class. He has forced other fighters to go to great lengths in an effort to unseat him.
But he's more than that. He's ramping up the popularity of the sport itself and the culture around it. St-Pierre is a marketer's dream. He's handsome, charismatic and funny in a self-effacing way. He's Canadian, fluently bilingual, came up from a difficult background with a few personal tragedies and has never been involved with drugs or crime or had his love life make any headlines. He's the man that the UFC is going to ride on in its quest to transform itself from niche market to mainstream.
It's already beginning. While other UFC fighters have sponsors like gyms and equipment suppliers, St-Pierre has signed multi-million-dollar deals with brands such as Under Armour and is even following in the footsteps of such luminaries as Michael Jordan, Peyton Manning and Sidney Crosby as a spokesman for Gatorade.
Fighter details the life of St-Pierre: how his talent, hard work and perseverance have paid off handsomely, and how his star has risen in the psyche of mixed martial arts fans around the world. It describes how he is held in high esteem by a huge number of Canadians despite the fact that his profession is looked down upon by many and is even illegal in several US States and Canadian Provinces. St-Pierre's ascent and fame have become a democratizing force, pressuring the establishment to take Mixed Martial Arts and Ultimate Fighting seriously in ways that it would not have without him.
著者について
Jerry Langton is a journalist and sports writer whose work has appeared in Maclean's, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, National Post, and Hamilton Spectator. He formerly worked for the Daily News in New York, Langton has also penned bestselling titles on outlaw motorcycle gangs.
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12 人中、11人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
if you want a rundown of each fight... then get this book
2011/4/15
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i was super excited to get a better understanding of george st pierre's life outside the octagon and I'm also looking forward to reading Brock Lesnar's book when that comes out in May.. I've read a lot of MMA books on fighters including Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Brian Stann's, Forest Griffin, and BJ Penn who all have their own biographys.. I just got this book from amazon and I finished it in a weekend, but when I got done, I just felt "meh".. having seend GSP fight at UFC 111 against Dan Hardy in Newark, NJ, I really like GSP, but this book was obviously written with GSP not around.. the author just writes about GSP's fights round by round in detail when I wanted to know more about him... if I wanted to watch him fight, I'd watch the fights on DVD, not read a book about them... if you've actually watched all his fights like I have, this book will bore the pants off you... if you haven't watched him fight before, you may enjoy this book.. disappointed in the finished product, and I don't even think GSP was qutoed once in this book.. I actually wish I liked this book but its a big disappointment for me... if you want to know more about the life of an MMA fighter, seek the books I've listed above
2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Only read if you're a big GSP fan
2011/5/22
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This is not a well-researched book, and was whipped out in a hurry to capitalize on GSP's popularity, I'm guessing. If you remove the very detailed blow by blow accounts of each GSP fight, there goes half your book. The rest is just OK, but not badly written at least. Some interesting history of MMA, but I was definitely left wanting to know more about GSP, from those who know him, and from the man himself. Borrow from the library or from a friend, but only spend the bucks if you're a big GSP fan. Don't have high expectations.
2 人中、0人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Lots of insight and history
2011/4/26
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I`m not a huge UFC or MMA fan, but was given this book as a gift and thoroughly enjoyed it
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