Could Georges St-Pierre end up on WWE television someday?
The former Middleweight and Welterweight Champion revealed during an interview on TVA Sports that the company had approached him at ESPN’s ESPYS award ceremony this past July. St-Pierre and Rose Namajunas were both nominated for the the Best Fighter Award, which went to Terrence Crawford (transcript courtesy of
mmafighting):
“I was at an ESPN event in the United States, the awards ceremony, and I got approached by the WWE,” St-Pierre said in an interview with Jean-Charles Lajoie on TVA Sports.
“I had just retired, and, it’s a form of competition, but of course, it’s also scripted, so I don’t know if I’d be willing to relive that. Perhaps for a special event, so I could taste it. But I don’t know if I’d want to sign a contract and do it every week and making it a living. Maybe for a special appearance.
“Perhaps we will get back to them on that, I don’t know, but for the moment, there are no discussions at all. They wanted to contact my agents, I gave them their number, but I don’t want to switch to wrestling full-time.”
St-Pierre doesn’t exactly detail what the company wanted him to specifically do; however, the retired veteran is a big name the mixed martial arts world thus it wouldn’t be a surprise if they were looking to get him to apart of the main roster product. However, the Canada native has never teased a transition to professional wrestling thus it’s not shocking that he’s not all too interested in going into that world full time.
Brock Lesnar, Matt Riddle, Ronda Rousey, Marina Shafir, Shayna Baszler all have notable UFC backgrounds; however, current stars such as Cris Cyborg and Cain Velasquez – who will be making his AAA debut in the summer – have teased making a transition to WWE someday.