Georges St. Pierre: "Thiago Alves is the greatest challenge that I had in my career."
by Paulo Silva on June 24, 2009

Georges St. Pierre will defend his welterweight championship at UFC 100 against a game Thiago Alves. St. Pierre updated his blog today on Yardbarker.com and wrote about the craziness that is UFC 100:

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So for the past two months, I'm training really hard before my fight. Three weeks I spent in New York doing Muay Thai at the Wat with Phil Nurse and all the guys over there, sparring with Shawn Imes, Brad and all those great training partners that I have for Muay Thai training. I'm learning a lot from Kru Phil. I also train in New York in Renzo Gracie Academy under supervision of John Danaher - he's my Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instructor. I have great training partners there as well. The level of jiu jitsu in New York at Renzo is better than it is in Montreal, so that's one of the main reasons why I'm going there and I spend so much time at that Academy. I'm learning new move every day and I met some new friends that I will bring in Montreal for help me train for the fight.

In Montreal everything goes well. Oh I always wrestle, box and do my Muay Thai and jiu jitsu in different places, as well as my strength and conditioning. Everything goes well - I just beat my record on snatches with a dumb-bell. Now I can snatch 100 lbs. 3 repetitions with 1 arm, which is something that I never thought I was ever going to be able to do when I first start training with Jonathan Chaimberg because I was struggling to lift like a 60 lb over my head and now I can do 3 reps with 100 lbs. I got so much stronger than I was, and that make me very confident for my next fight, because I know Thiago Alves is a very big guy and very powerful and he has been able to dominate a lot of these guys because of his superior strength and superior size. But I truly believe that it's not going to work against me.

About one month away from my fight, I decided to stay in Montreal and instead of traveling like in New York and Albuquerque, I decide to bring all my training partner in to avoid me to travel, being tired and get stuck with some virus during the airplane transportation. I have many guys who came in town recently - John Danaher from New York came for my jiu jitsu - he showed me some amazing stuff that I will be able to use. I also work with Jean-Charles Skarbowsky, who's a legend in Muay Thai who spent most of his life in Thailand. He came with two of his top students, and he showed me a bunch of stuff in Muay Thai that I'll also be able to use during my fight. And the fact that he came with two of his top students - it give me a good idea of what is world-class Muay Thai fighter and it's gonna help me gauge the speed and the power of a real Muay Thai guy. Also I have some other guys coming in town - one of my friends from New York - Steven Williams came and helped me train for the fight as well. He's an amazing fighter and he joined the group, you know, in Montreal and helped me out very much to help me for that fight.

I also have a bunch of guys coming up for...

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