Georges St Pierre: Growing Up, I Wanted To Become A WWE Wrestler, But I’m Too Small

Georges St Pierre recalls wanting to become a WWE professional wrestler before his MMA career took off.

GSP is one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time, fighting in the welterweight division in the UFC, holding the title in the weight class on more than one occasion, also capturing the UFC Middleweight title in his final fight.

While speaking to the Danny Jones podcast in a new interview, Georges St Pierre spoke about wanting to become a WWE wrestler growing up, but felt he was too small.

“Growing up, I wanted to become a WWE wrestler. MMA did not exist. I wanted, but I’m too small. I’m not big enough. At the time, they were big. All the wrestlers were minimum 200, maybe 30 pounds and plus yeah now it changes. Now they want sometime more athletic guys, maybe smaller. But before, they were all big guys. Heavy, big guys. Like, it was yeah I didn’t have the you know, the physique. I could have maybe got on steroids and get there, but I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to take the risk, you know?”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, GSP spoke about a possible future appearance in WWE. You can read more about that here.

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