GSP interview in the Ottawa Sun
By Jim Murphy April 11th, 2008The Ottawa Sun has an interview with GSP in advance of his big title shot against Matt Serra in his home town of Montreal. Nothing really revalatory–he says his training camp is going well but I can’t recall ever hearing a boxer or a MMA fighter who said their training camp *didn’t* go well. He also says that the scene at the Bell Centre will be “insane” but we knew that too:
Q: How is your training camp?
A: It’s the best so far. A lot of guys from Greg Jackson camp (Nathan Marquardt/Rashad Evans/Keith Jardine) have come to Montreal to help me train and Denis Kang has been here with me the whole time. I’m doing specific training for the Serra fight. I’ve been studying a lot of tape and I have a good strategy going into that fight, but like when you play cards, you can’t show your hand, so I can’t tell you too many specifics.
Q: What is it going to be like to walk out into Bell Centre packed with all your family and friends in the city where you grew up?
A: It’s going to be crazy. Montreal people are very hot-blooded. The UFC will have never seen anything like what they will see that night. It’s going to be insane. I can’t dream of a better scenario fighting in Montreal in front of my people for the title.
He addresses the importance of being a professional, Matt Serra’s “headcase” disses, and we also learn that the ladies dig GSP:
Serra: ‘Chicks dig me too’
Q: How hard is it for you to get dates or friends without questioning whether they only like you because you are a celebrity?
A: I don’t have a girlfriend, but all the girls I’ve been going out with, they didn’t know who I was and they didn’t even know my sport. I’m attracted by a woman who is intelligent that I can have a good conversation with. Beautiful, of course. Honest and loyal. I find that more attractive than some hot gold digger who doesn’t know what I’m like on the inside because I’m a fighter. They don’t know that I like to read or that I’m a very intellectual person. Fighting is a job. Once I’m finished working, I like to think about something else.
