THE CANADIAN PRESS
Restored as UFC champion, Montreal fighter Georges St. Pierre is back squarely in the mixed martial arts limelight and that includes his personal life, it seems.
The tabloid Star magazine reported that actress-singer Mandy Moore has a crush on GSP, which has since escalated into reports they are dating (Britain’s Sun) and Moore is in love (American Girls blog, www.usgirl.org). Other Internet outlets following the Star report simply described Moore as "crushing hard" on the Canadian.
Moore was in the Bell Centre crowd in Montreal last month when St. Pierre regained his welterweight title.
So what is the skinny on GSP outside the cage?
A spokeswoman for the 26-year-old St. Pierre says UFC president Dana White introduced Moore to the fighter backstage prior to one of the Canadian’s Las Vegas bouts last year. The two are not romantically involved, although St. Pierre "did say that he would date her if given the opportunity," according to the spokeswoman.
It appears the ball is now in Moore’s court. The 24-year-old has previously been linked romantically with actors Zach Braff and Wilmer Valderrama, musicians Greg Laswell and Ryan Adams, and tennis star Andy Roddick.
UFC fighters and the ladies also figure in Chuck Liddell’s entertaining autobiography "Iceman." Liddell notes that after a night of celebrating his UFC 47 win over rival Tito (The Huntington Beach Bad Boy) Ortiz, he brought some company to his room. "A lot of company. I can’t remember how many women, but I know it was more than two."
White came to Liddell’s hotel room the next morning and found two women asleep in the living room, two more in the bathroom and another in bed with Liddell. "None of us had any clothes on," the unmarried fighter said.
In the "we didn’t really need to know" department, Liddell adds he ended that morning by having sex while doing a phone interview with a radio station.
"Again, I’m not trying to brag," wrote Liddell. "That is just the way it was. What else can I say? It’s good to be a winner."
NOTES: Spike TV is airing Chuck Liddell’s epic UFC 79 battle against Wanderlei (The Axe Murderer) Silva on May 31 (10 p.m. ET), following the TV debut of the documentary "Ultimate Iceman: Chuck Liddell" (9 p.m. ET). … Some tidbits from Liddell’s autobiography: Season 1 of "The Ultimate Fighter" reality TV show cost the UFC US$10 million to produce. Spike TV paid nothing for the show, providing only the airtime while the UFC had to find the advertising. Liddell made just US$800 a week during the show. UFC president Dana White gave Liddell a US$330,000 Ferrari "for being a guy the UFC counts on."
