“I look at (St-Pierre) as the all-time best,” Shore said. “To be compared to him after four fights in the UFC is a little bit crazy, but as long as people keep making them comparisons, and I keep performing well, then who knows? If I can achieve a third or half of what GSP achieved, then I’ll retire a happy man, so it’s great to hear those comparisons being made, to be honest.”
Where Shore could perhaps most quickly become GSP-like is in the way he leads the mixed martial arts scene for his home country. St-Pierre’s success did wonders for the sport’s scene in Canada, and Shore believes he can take the torch for Wales and continue to advance the sport’s stature there.
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He and his father, Richard Shore, opened Shore Mixed Martial Arts Centre of Excellence in Aberbeeg in November 2019, and they hope to cultivate the next generation of Welsh mixed martial artists.
“We’re not quite on the level of America in terms of it being a mainstream sport, but people are taking notice,” Jack Shore said. “There’s more and more kids getting involved in the sport, and I think I’m leading the charge at the minute for Welsh MMA. There were guys like Brett Johns and Jack Marshman who came before me, and they laid the path for me to follow. Hopefully I can be the one that takes it to that next level. Maybe eventually bringing a UFC to Wales would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
