Last year at UFC 217, Georges St-Pierre shocked the world when he defeated Michael Bisping to win the middleweight title. However, St-Pierre was never able to defend his title as he vacated the middleweight championship a month later due to suffering from ulcerative colitis and wanted to avoid holding up the middleweight division.
Good news has popped up, as St-Pierre says he could return before the end of the year. So who does the Canadian native want to face in his return bout? Many have speculated on Anderson Silva, but GSP doesn’t seem to be interested.
GSP told Submission Radio in an interview this week in Australia. The former UFC middleweight champion, who is doing a speaking tour of continent, said that he doesn’t think he’d benefit much from fighting Silva at this time.
“Right now, I don’t think it’s a win-win situation for me, because I have a lot more to lose than to win right now fighting against Anderson Silva,” GSP said.
When GSP and Silva were both champions between the period of 2008 to 2013, the UFC wanted them to fight, but GSP had requested extra drug testing. Silva never tested positive for anything then, but has now popped twice in the last three years. The latter, though, came from a contaminated supplement and USADA gave him a reduced suspension.
The UFC didn’t agree to extra testing at that time, GSP said, though now it uses USADA as its anti-doping partner.
“This fight was interesting at a certain point when I had a lot of contenders in my division,” St-Pierre said. “This fight, if it would have been made, I wanted it to be made with extra performance-enhancing drug testing, which UFC was not a fan about it, because they didn’t want VADA to be a part of it.”
Check out the rest of the interview below: