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No list of top Canadian fighters is complete without mentioning Georges St-Pierre. In fact, you might as well dismiss any such list that doesn’t feature GSP at the top. He has a professional record of 20-2 with 15 of those wins coming in the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), which is recognized as the predominant mma organization in the world. He has won 30 consecutive rounds – a UFC record – and outstruck his opponents 1067 to 367 (an almost 3 to 1 ratio). He’s sitting on an eight-fight win streak (the second longest in UFC history) with five successful defenses of his welterweight title, tying the UFC record set by Matt Hughes. There is currently no viable contender for the welterweight belt. That, in itself, is an indication of how dominant he is.

So much has been written about Georges St-Pierre, it seems to be a disservice to the other promising and talented Canadian fighters who rarely get any attention. So here we are with a list of top Canadian fighters other than Georges St-Pierre.

~Top 10 Other Canadians in MMA~

pr	cr	Fighter	MMA Record	Zuffa* Record	Last Fought In…	Streak
2	1	Rory MacDonald welterweight	11-1 (4KO/6sub)	2-1	UFC	1 win
1	2	Mark Hominick featherweight	20-9 (9KO/7sub)	6-3	UFC	1 loss
H	3	Jason MacDonald middleweight	25-14 (3KO/19sub)	5-6	UFC	1 win
3	4	Claude Patrick welterweight	14-1 (3KO/9sub)	3-0	UFC	13 wins
10	5	John Makdessi lightweight	9-0 (7KO)	2-0	UFC	9 wins
4	6	Mark Bocek lightweight	9-4 (1KO/7sub)	5-4	UFC	1 loss
8	7	Sarah Kaufman 135 lbs	13-1 (9KO)	4-1	Armageddon FC	1 win
5	8	Sam Stout lightweight	16-6-1 (8KO/1sub)	5-5	UFC	1 win
6	9	Sean Pierson welterweight	11-5 (6KO/4sub)	1-1	UFC	1 loss
7	10	Krzysztof Soszynski light heavyweight	25-11-1 (10KO/11sub)	5-2	UFC	1 win

*Zuffa Record includes combined record from UFC, WEC and Strikeforce
PR=Previous Ranking
CR=Current Ranking

~Ones to Watch~

pr	Fighter	MMA Record	Zuffa* Record	Last Fought In…	Streak
-	Alexis Davis (Raging Wolf Women’s Champion)	10-4 (1KO/5sub)	1-0	Strikeforce	2 wins
-	Jordan Mein welterweight	22-7 (12KO/7sub)	n/a	SFS	5 wins
-	Antonio Carvalho featherweight	13-4 (6KO/3sub)	n/a	SFS	3 wins
-	Nick Ring middleweight	12-0 (2KO/6sub)	2-0	UFC	12 wins
-	Julia Budd 145lbs	2-1 (1KO)	2-1	Strikeforce	1 win
-	Ryan Jimmo (MFC Light Heavyweight Champion)	15-1 (6KO/2sub)	n/a	MFC	15 wins
-	Dwayne Lewis light heavyweight	12-7 (7KO/3sub)	n/a	MFC	1 loss
-	Ryan Ford (TFC Welterweight Champion)	16-3 (8KO/7sub)	n/a	AMMA	3 wins
-	Adrian Wooley (W-1 Bantamweight Champion)	7-2 (4KO)	n/a	SFS	1 loss
-	John Alessio welterweight	31-14 (9KO/14sub)	0-3	Ultimate Glory	1 loss
-	Chris Horodecki lightweight	18-3 (7KO/3sub)	2-2	Bellator	2 wins
-	Tim Hague heavyweight	12-5 (7KO/3sub)	1-4	UFC	1 loss
-	David Loiseau middleweight	20-10 (13KO/3sub)	8-5	TPF	1 win
-	Denis Kang middleweight	34-13-2-2 (12KO/16sub)	1-2	BFL	1 loss
-	Patrick Côté middleweight	15-7 (5KO/4sub)	4-7	Ringside	2 wins
-	Joe Doerksen middleweight	47-15 (8KO/33sub)	2-7	SFS	1 win
9	TJ Grant welterweight	16-5 (2KO/12sub)	3-3	UFC	1 loss

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with advice and encouragement from KTW

Dana White called Georges St-Pierre the most famous athlete to ever come out of Canada. The Canadian media had a fit, calling out “Gretzky, Gretzky”. But Dana White pointed out that GSP can go anywhere in the world and be recognized, because mma is a globally enjoyed sport. Hockey, on the other hand….

White makes the example of going to the Philippines and seeing St-Pierre mobbed. That wouldn’t happen to Wayne Gretzky in the Philippines. The media point out that Gretzky can’t go anywhere in Canada without being recognized, while St-Pierre could go most places – especially when there is no UFC event coming up – without being recognized. Certainly that would be the case. And White can’t understand why Canadians don’t embrace GSP as our new sports hero.

As big as mma is in Canada, it really isn’t that big. Canada may be the second biggest market for mma outside of the USA, but most people you talk to still give you a blank look when you mention mma. “You know,” you explain, “UFC.” Oh, that. Sure, Canadians are aware of the sport, but most only know it because of the bad media coverage of it. You know, the news journalists who think they are cracking a big story when they report on the barbarism of mma. They conveniently forget to point out that their information is over ten years old. That wouldn’t make as sensational a story.

But I digress! Wayne Gretzky will likely always be the top Canadian athlete of all time to most Canadians. There is no questioning that. But drop him in Sydney, Australia or Abu Dhabi and see if anyone knows who he is. Dana White had a point. MMA is a global sport. You can go to almost any country in the world and find more people who know the current champions of the UFC than know NHL hockey players who have been retired and out of the public eye for over ten years.

Some more open-minded media have pointed out that the most famous Canadian athlete is most likely Ben Johnson. This was probably true 20 years ago, when he was famously stripped of his Olympic medals and world records for doping, but these days I think you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows who he is. (I had to google him.)

35 million Canadians know who Wayne Gretzky is. Presumedly most American hockey fans know who he is. A handful of countries in Europe probably know him. How many people in England know him? I would guess more Britons know Dan Hardy than Gretzky. And if they know Hardy, then they know GSP! Who wants to pretend that Kenyans know who Gretzky is?

Dana White likes to make outrageous statements and controversial claims. But in this case, I think he just may be justified.

Addendum: Georges St-Pierre was named the Canadian Athlete of the Year for the third year in a row in 2010, beating out Olympic hockey hero Sidney Crosby.

Every time a non-American fighter is fighting an American in the United States, we hear the chants of “USA! USA!” At UFC 124 in Montréal, Canada, there are seven – count ‘em, seven! – Canadians on the card. You can very well expect to hear the partisan crowd chanting “Canada! Canada!”

Canadians are a humble and soft-spoken bunch, as a matter of course. But put a group of us together in a room with a fellow Canuck to cheer on and we become suddenly patriotic. We showed this during the Olympics. And now we are ready to show the world once more, via UFC 124.

Canadians are going to support the UFC and mma regardless of who is on the card. Just look at UFC 115! While it’s not necessary for the UFC to add Canadian fighters to every event held in Canada, it is a nice gesture, and it recognizes the talent coming out of Canada.

At UFC 124, only one Canadian made the main card but, as Dana White will tell you, he is the most famous Canadian athlete ever. His name is Georges St-Pierre and he goes by the nickname “Rush”, but many know him simply by his monogram, GSP. He is arguably the pound-for-pound best mma fighter in the world. And he is headlining this event, defending his Welterweight Championship for the fifth time, this time against Josh Koscheck.

“Kos” has been talking a lot of trash about GSP in the lead up to this fight, including some humorous confrontations during the filming of the latest season of The Ultimate Fighter, in which they coached opposing teams. But St-Pierre just lets his opponents talk a big game and then makes them eat their words in the octagon. He doesn’t return the trash talk.

Although St-Pierre is a mild mannered, quiet, respectful person, the reason he doesn’t return the trash talk is most likely because his mother tongue is French. Getting into a war of words in a language one doesn’t fully comprehend is foolish. It would be like getting into the cage with a wrestler and not knowing how to defend against it – which is something Koscheck did three years ago when he lost a unanimous decision to St-Pierre in a bout to determine who would fight for the Interim Welterweight Championship.

There is no question Kos learned his lesson then and he will be ready for GSP’s ground game, to the extent that most are expecting a standup battle. If I hadn’t seen the determination and dedication in St-Pierre’s eyes, I might actually believe Koscheck could beat him. But St-Pierre is a student of mma, always learning. He is very technical and that means he has studied every move Koscheck could possibly make and he has the tools to defend or attack. Georges himself compared it to golf. In golf, you do everything you can do to be prepared and then you take your swing. Once the ball is in the air, there is nothing more you can do. St-Pierre has done all the training and now, there is nothing more he can do. The fight will proceed and he has either prepared properly … or he will lose.

The rest of the Canadians are on the undercard. Two of the fights will be shown live and free on UFC.com but the rest will be for the exclusive viewing pleasure of the paying audience – which itself will set a record for the highest attendance (expected to be broken again in April with an event held at the football stadium in Toronto).

John Makdessi will make his UFC debut against Pat Audinwood and Jesse Bongfeldt will make his UFC debut filling in for fellow Canadian Jason MacDonald, who suffered an injury during training. He will face Rafael Natal.

Also stepping up as an injury replacement is UFC first-timer Sean Pierson, who destroyed Ricky Goodall in the first round at a W-1 event in October. TJ Grant is 3-2 in the UFC and looking to improve that record on home soil against Brazilian Ricardo Almeida.

Joe Doerksen and Mark Bocek have their work cut out for them in their internet-streamed preliminary bouts, against Dan Miller and Dustin Hazelett, respectively.

Any one of these fights has the potential to make the winner a household name. For Canadians, we hope to be talking about all of our fellow countrymen in a favourable light for years to come.

Main Card

Pay-Per-View

• Georges St-Pierre (c) vs Josh Koscheck for the Welterweight Championship
• Stefan Struve vs Sean McCorkle
• Jim Miller vs Charles Oliveira
• Joe Stevenson vs Mac Danzig
• Thiago Alves vs John Howard

Preliminary Card

Live streaming on UFC.com

• Mark Bocek vs Dustin Hazelett
• Joe Doerksen vs Dan Miller

Non-televised

• Jesse Bongfeldt vs Rafael Natal
• Matt Riddle vs Sean Pierson
• TJ Grant vs Ricardo Almeida
• Pat Audinwood vs John Makdessi

Date: June 26, 2010 Location: San Jose, California Venue: HP Pavilion Broadcast: Showtime Time: 9pm (central-USA)

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All eyes will be on Vancouver June 12 when the city hosts its first major sanctioned mma event. And it doesn’t get more “major” than the UFC, who took it upon themselves to lobby the local government for sanctioning. They’ve held three events in Montréal and want very desperately to expand through all of Canada, to take advantage of the second largest mma audience in the world. The Vancouver show is a milestone. So why did we get stuck with such a boring card?

No offence to the fighters involved – I know they train their asses off to get in that octagon and provide the fans with great entertainment. But the matchups on this card are actually somewhat worse than the matchups on the card at UFC 114, which turned out to be quite a snoozefest. I talk about that Read more »

UFC 115 will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada on Saturday June 12, 2010. It is the first sanctioned mma event to be held in the province of British Columbia and the fourth sanctioned event in all of Canada, where the sport is technically illegal, due mostly to outdated laws.

Dana White, president of the UFC, has said repeatedly that Canada is the second largest market, outside the United States, for mma. This is backed up by phenomenal pay-per-view buys across the country. (The sport is illegal to stage in Canada, but not Read more »

>>>Below….A Listing Of Places To Watch 114 Locally

This Match Is For The #1 Contender……
To Face Newly Crowned LHW Champ Mauricio “Shogun” Rua

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson		VS.	“Suga” Rashad Evans
	31	age	30
	Memphis, TN	location	Niagara Falls, NY
	6′ 1″	height	5′ 11″
	205lbs	weight	205lbs
	30-7-0	record	19-1-1
	11 year pro	experience	6 year pro
	14KOs/7subs	endings	5KOs/2subs
	73.0in (185cm)	reach	74.5in (189cm)
	Wolfslair MMA Academy	team	Jackson’s Submission Fighting
	Wrestling/Boxing	style	Collegiate Wrestling / Boxing / Kickboxing / BJJ / Muay Thai

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Although it sounds like some sort of national celebration, MMA Day is actually a grassroots movement in Ontario to encourage the provincial government to legalize MMA.

A rally will be held at 1PM at Queen’s Park in Toronto, Ontario on Saturday May 22. Organizers want MMA fans and supporters to come out and show the government and MMA critics alike that the sport is civilized and legitimate, that there are thousands who want to attend a major MMA event in Ontario, and that it is not dangerous to get so many fight fans in one place at one time.

If you are in the Toronto area — if you live in Ontario or even northern New York state — make sure you attend this event. You elected this government, now make them work for you!

To find out more about this event, check out the MMA Day Website (download event guide) or join them on Facebook.

UFC 113: Machida Vs. Shogun
Fighter Weigh-In

Many casual and frequent flier mma fans tend to never watch the pre-fight weigh-in session. It’s sometimes frivolous and long. And many people, particularly the casual mma fan, have no idea that the UFC makes a show of the fighters’ weigh-in, which is usually a day before the fight. The show is generally a good hype machine for promoting more viewers to the main show, as well as perhaps garnering more drama for a particular fight.

I wanted to post the weigh-in video for UFC 113 because  it was cleanly and effectively edited down to roughly six minutes by mmafighting.com. 

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UFC 113: Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida Vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua 2

Kimbo Slice (4-1) shows he may have had a career as a linebacker with this no mercy football tackle on some poor thrill seeker:

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When the UFC stages an event in the UK, they have a few British fighters on the card. A few months ago, when they were in Australia, there were a few Aussie fighters on the card. So it’s no surprise that UFC 113 in Montréal – the promotion’s third visit to the Great White North – will feature a number of Canadian fighters. Seven, to be exact, with two on the main card.

These aren’t no-name fighters to humour the host country. You’ll get to see both Sam Stout (four-time Fight of the Night winner) and Patrick Côté battle against top fighters Jeremy Stephens and Alan Belcher, respectively.

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