Takedown: The DNA of GSP Page #4

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like he was tonight.

He said that Nick Diaz...

I quote...

You're gonna think I'm full of sh*t,

but this is the truth.

I QUOTE:
"He's the most

disrespectful human being.

"I've ever met, and I'm gonna

put the worst beating

"you've ever seen on him in the UFC,"

is what Georges St-Pierre said.

(ZAHABI):
Georges, at that time,

was going through

a lot of heartache

and he had to maybe

even possibly retire.

Maybe his knee will

never be the same.

He had all these doubts and,

you know, all this anger inside him,

and this guy was just taunting him

in front of the world.

(DIAZ):
I don't know

what he's going through

with the dark side,

or where he comes from...

- He swore to me,

over and over again.

He's gonna find him in the cage

and get his hands on him.

- The morning of the surgery,

I was so nervous.

I'm not gonna lie, you know.

I was afraid to never come back.

I was afraid my body would reject my graft.

That was a possibility.

- And down here in the bottom

is regarding your advanced

directive and living will.

Do you have a living will?

- Uh, sorry?

- A living will?

- Sometimes, patients will have

an advanced directive in case of emergency.

What your wishes to be...

Do you have something like that ready?

(BEAULIEU SPEAKING FRENCH):

- Oh! I have nothing like that.

(BEAULIEU):
He gives

everything to me. It's okay!

(GEORGES LAUGHING)

- You're the lucky one.

(BEAULIEU):
You're all right, man!

- Oh, my God! Oh! God!

I hate this! Oh!

(EKG MONITOR BEEPING)

- Hi, there!

- It hurts. It hurts, my knee.

It hurts.

- I'm gonna pull up some chairs

for you guys, okay?

(WOMAN):

Thank you very much.

(BEAULIEU AND GEORGES LAUGHING)

- Oh yeah...

People don't believe me...

Never took it in my life.

(WOMAN):

Oh, he did?

So bad!

(MONITOR BEEPING)

- Hey, Vera?

(VERA):
Yes, sir?

- Did you wrestle around

with him a little bit?

- I tried, but

he pinned me down.

- She pinned me down!

It's gonna hurt a little bit, or...

- That's already 30 degrees.

- No alcohol or anything while

you're taking the pain pills.

- No, of course, of course.

- I don't wanna take

the bandage off for a week.

- 'Cause it's going to be

painful for at least 4 days.

- Okay, that's enough.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

- When I got hurt,

I was afraid that the injury

that I had was a very serious one.

It happened many times in the past

that an athlete had

a similar injury, an ACL tear,

and never came back

the same, or end his career.

Wow! I haven't seen

my leg for a long time.

(WOMAN):
Mm-hmm!

- Oy oy oy!

That's why I left Montreal,

and I made sure

that I surround myself

with the best person in the world.

Wow! Wow! Look at this! Oh, my God!

(EXHALING SHARPLY)

It feels so good to take it off.

Perfect!

(CHUCKLING)

Georges!

- Be good!

(ANNOUNCER TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

(WOMAN):
You betcha!

- Hey, how are you?

- I'm good. How are you?

- I'm very good!

- That's good.

(GRUNTING)

- This looks absolutely beautiful.

Georges, that's about as solid

as I can make an ACL.

- Yeah?

- So, just this one's gonna

turn on. There. Better.

(MAN):
My pleasure.

(MAN):
Take care, guy!

- Thank you!

It's a process getting in there.

Yes, sir! Yes, sir!

- You know, who knows,

maybe Georges isn't really hurt.

Anybody see any pictures of surgery?

'Cause I haven't. I don't know.

Maybe they are everywhere,

and everyone knows about it.

I just haven't seen it.

I wanna see some photograph, video.

I'M NOT SAYING:
"Georges ain't hurt."

I don't know.

You're working out already?

I've had friends have surgery

on their knee.

I figure,

I let you chop my knee open,

I ain't gonna be fighting for the

next year. Know what I mean?

(GRUNTING LOUDLY)

(MAN TALKING, INDISTINCT)

- Aaah!

(GRUNTING)

(FEMALE TRAINER): Two, three...

...five, six, seven.

(GRUNTING)

- I'm very anxious, because

I see all those challengers

fighting each other

and getting better.

- I was supposed

to fight Georges St-Pierre.

(CONDIT):
My endurance has

always been a strong point.

(MALE NARRATOR) On February 4th,

Georges St-Pierre's

title is up for grabs.

It's the fight of the year.

- Georges St-Pierre's out.

Now, Condit and Diaz are gonna

fight for the interim title.

- Me, I'm staying here, and I'm...

You know, I feel like I'm doing

stationary bicycle, you know?

(MALE NARRATOR):

Carlos Condit. Nick Diaz.

It's gonna be a dog fight.

(GEORGES):
I pray that Nick Diaz

wins the fight every night.

I'm always at my best

when I'm pushed against a wall.

When I'm fighting a guy that insults me

and questions my integrity,

it lights more fire in myself.

(PANTING)

(TRAIN WHISTLE

BLOWING IN DISTANCE)

(CROWD CHEERING)

- What? Come on!

(CROWD CHEERING)

(CROWD):
Oh!

(ANNOUNCER 1):
Oh!

(ANNOUNCER 1):

Final seconds of the fight!

Condit's up!

Condit's on top of him!

(HORN BLARING)

(ANNOUNCER 2):

It is over!

The judges will

render their decision.

(CROWD CHEERING)

(ANNOUNCER):

Ladies and gentlemen,

the interim UFC welterweight

champion of the world,

the Natural Born Killer,

Carlos Condit!

- I don't need this (BLEEP).

I pushed this guy backwards.

The whole time he ran from me.

He ran this whole fight.

I landed the harder shots.

He ran the whole time.

He kicked me in my leg

with little baby leg kicks

the whole fight.

(BEAULIEU SPEAKING FRENCH):

- I truly aim for November,

fighting for the title

against the champion, Carlos Condit.

It's gonna be very hard

to come back from that injury.

It's been a long time.

I'm gonna be rusty.

But you know what?

It's a challenge.

I'm gonna be the underdog,

and that's what drives me.

- Doctor!

- How are you?

- Oh yeah! I'm excited.

- Good to see you.

- I haven't been excited since...

- How are you?

(LAUGHING):
...since prom!

- Horrible!

- There's a, you know,

5 or 6 times higher chance,

if you've had an ACL tear,

of having another ACL tear

than somebody that's

never had an ACL tear.

(GEORGES):
Of course.

(WOMAN):
Oh, my!

- Just keeping...

All of the vectors are perfect.

- So, when do you

feel any difference?

- Let's say I have

to change direction faster,

because I didn't do that

for more than 6 months,

I feel a little bit...

I'm not confident, you know?

This, I can do...

- Yeah.

- No problem. But the same

side is kind of hard for me.

And the guy I'm fighting is a good...

He's good...

Shut down.

Shut down this, because...

(MAN):
Oh, really? This?

- No, no! It's important

because it's strategic.

- But it's not gonna ever...

- Don't put that on YouTube, though, eh?

(MAN LAUGHING):
No, no!

- The guy I'm fighting,

he's a good striker, you know?

So I would, maybe,

wrestle a lot with him

and try to put him down, but I need...

You know, my patella,

when I do it like this,

I feel it's not 100%, you know?

Like, I will not be comfortable.

Like, on this knee, yeah,

to fall straight from... Boom!

You know, like this? But this,

I would not feel confident.

- Okay, so we're gonna gradually

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