{"id":129042,"date":"2015-02-10T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=129042"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:50:51","slug":"gsp-itch-return-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/gsp-itch-return-action\/","title":{"rendered":"GSP Has &#8220;The Itch&#8221; To Return To Action, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-GSP.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128064\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-GSP.png\" alt=\"Dana GSP\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-GSP.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-GSP-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-GSP-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-GSP-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I never said never, but now is not that time for me. I\u2019m not interested right now. The way that things go, I\u2019m not interested right now. I\u2019m busy with other stuff too.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m not going to lie, I\u2019m busy with everything and I work on other projects. But for sure I watch the fights sometimes and I feel the itch. And the more and more I watch the fights the more I feel the itch. I took time out of competition because I was also burned out of all the pressure and the expectations and everything. I needed to find a way out to keep my mental stability so to speak. And, yeah, I\u2019m not going to lie. The more time that goes by the more I feel the itch. And now I\u2019ve had my knee surgery, my knee feels 100 percent now. And I\u2019m even able to perform some movement that I can do now that I was not able to do before, so I\u2019ve even made a progression in that department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;So, no, I\u2019m not going to lie, every time I see a fight I tune in for a big UFC fight and I feel excited, you know. But I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen to me. I don\u2019t say that I\u2019m making a comeback, but I think right now the sport needs to get cleaned up.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre addressed his potential return to the UFC, and what would need to happen to accomplish that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Quote via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2015\/2\/10\/8008533\/georges-st-pierre-the-more-i-watch-the-fights-the-more-i-feel-the-itch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I never said never, but now is not that time for me. I\u2019m not interested right now. The way that things go, I\u2019m not interested right now. I\u2019m busy with other stuff too.&#8221; &#8220;I\u2019m not going to lie, I\u2019m busy with everything and I work on other projects. But for sure I watch the fights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":128064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GSP Has &quot;The Itch&quot; To Return To Action, But... | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre addresses his potential return to the UFC, and what would need to happen to ... 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