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A few months ago, I wrote a story about Georges St. Pierre for Men's Health magazine. It just came out. The magazine sent me to Montreal to watch St. Pierre fight Josh Koscheck. A month after that, I met St. Pierre again at a photo shoot, where I was reminded that being a writer on pieces like these is a little like being an extra on a film set. In the shoot's fashionably gritty Brooklyn warehouse that had surely been rented for a fashionable price, I encountered several dozen people, all of whom seemed very important and extremely busy. I was out of my element in this crowd. So I skulked anonymously by the craft services table for a few hours, filching cheese and melon cuttings and never more aware of the journalist's unimportance in the PRODUCTION OF MAGAZINE JOURNALISM. Until yesterday, that is, when publicist Brenae Leary of Coburn Communication reached out to me with a story suggestion: More »
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Georges St. Pierre crushed B.J. Penn to become the best pound-for-pound fighter in mixed martial arts—even though a couple of those pounds might have been grease. More »
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