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Georges St-Pierre Not Interested In Fight With Anderson Silva

December 13, 2018 | Posted by Joseph Lee
Georges St-Pierre

In an interview with The Luke Thomas Show (via MMA Fighting, Georges St-Pierre said he was not interested in a superfight with Anderson Silva, claiming it’s been offered to him twice. Here are highlights:

On a fight with Silva: “The fight with Anderson Silva, there’s been a lot of talk. It’s been offered to me twice, earlier in my career, during my welterweight run. I don’t exactly remember when. I was doing my welterweight run and I had a talk with Dana and Lorenzo and the condition if I would make that fight was a catchweight, because after my goal was to go back down to my initial weight class at 170. Also, I wanted to implement testing, which they didn’t have before. I was asking for VADA and back in the day they had issues. Something happened politically between the UFC and VADA, I don’t know what happened, but they were not interested in that. The other time that happened, after I finished, I took a break with Johny Hendricks and Dana texted me asking if I want to fight Anderson Silva but I didn’t want to fight nobody. I said no. I took four years off. Now things have changed. Silva has lost. Now it is not as interesting. There’s a lot more to lose than gain.”

On if he’s a chicken for turning down fights: “I’m always scared, no matter who I’m fighting. But I’ve done a lot of things in my career, I took on a lot of opponents. The things I have done are pretty ballsy and I’ve done it. Yes, I have a lot of issues. I’m not a perfect man. I have problems, but one thing I can tell you is that I’m not a coward. This is the truth. Even though I’m scared, I walk the walk. I’ve done it every fight.”

On the most difficult thing in MMA: “I think taking contenders is the hardest thing. When you’re the champion, you’re the target. Everybody is looking at you, everybody is studying your game. Everything you do, everybody has seen it before. When you’re coming as a contender, you’re the contender, you’re challenging a champion. The guy has been looking at you for, maybe, a few months. He started studying your game for only a few months. When you are champion people study your game every day of your reign. Every guy that comes up, their dream is to beat you and they know your game sometimes better than you know yourself.”

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