Georges St-Pierre

Georges “Rush” St-Pierre is the Quebec karate kid who became the most complete welterweight the UFC has ever seen. He won the title from Matt Hughes in 2006, lost it to Matt Serra in one of the sport’s biggest upsets, then took it back and made nine straight defences, beating Jon Fitch, BJ Penn, Thiago Alves, Josh Koscheck, Jake Shields, Carlos Condit, Nick Diaz and Johny Hendricks along the way.

He walked away in 2013, returned in 2017 to choke out Michael Bisping for the middleweight belt, and joined the UFC Hall of Fame in 2020. CagePotato covered the whole run, from the Vaseline accusations and the hangover after UFC 100 to the endless will-he-won’t-he comeback talk.