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St. Pierre stops LI's Serra for UFC title

If you were a Canadian fighter Saturday night at the Bell Center in Montreal, you could do no wrong.

And that's exactly what Montreal native Georges St. Pierre did against Long Islander and UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra.

St. Pierre, like many of the Canadian fighters on the UFC 83 card, was blanketed by the deafening cheers of his home crowd of 21,390 fans and fought a perfect...

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