{"id":226621,"date":"2017-03-07T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=226621"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:05:33","slug":"gsp-anderon-silva-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/anderson-silva\/gsp-anderon-silva-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"GSP on long-discussed Anderson Silva super fight: &#8220;It is possible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva stood out as the two best fighters in MMA.\u00a0Given that they were separated by just 15 pounds, there was always a widespread desire to see them fight. Unfortunately, this super fight never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent episode of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufcunfiltered.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Unfiltered Podcast<\/a>, St-Pierre recounted the UFC&#8217;s previous attempts to book a fight between him and Silva, and explained why the fight never occurred.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We talked about Anderson Silva many times with [former UFC CEO] Lorenzo [Fertitta] and [UFC President] Dana [White],\u201d St-Pierre said on the show (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/03\/georges-st-pierre-formally-offered-anderson-silva-just-once-in-past-still-open-to-fight\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>).\u00a0\u201cWhat I wanted to do at the time \u2013 there was a big lineup of contenders in my division and what I wanted to do, if I would have fought him at the time because I would have had to defend my title too, I would have done it at a catchweight of 177 [pounds] with [World Anti-Doping Agency testing]. Because USADA was not in place back then, and I wanted to do the WADA testing for performance-enhancing drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think the UFC didn\u2019t really like the idea at the time,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But then after I had to fight other guys, after I blew out my ACL then a lot of guys were waiting for me to come back. I didn\u2019t have a time to stop or the opportunity to [fight Silva].\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While St-Pierre admitted this fight with Silva was discussed on several occasions, however, he said it was only &#8220;formally&#8221; offered to him once \u00a0\u2013 right around the time he began his temporary retirement from MMA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe truth is this: The only time I\u2019ve been offered to fight Anderson Silva, formally \u2013 like formally \u2013 like a real offer, was after my fight with Johny Hendricks,\u00a0when I retired. It\u2019s not [that I turned it down] because it was Anderson Silva. I would not have fought nobody. You could have put a midget of 3-foot tall, [and] I would not have even fought him. I wouldn\u2019t want to fight. I was tired. I wanted to take time off.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, however, when <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/breaking-georges-st-pierre-will-return-at-ufc-206-in-toronto-2\/\">St-Pierre is poised for a comeback fight against Michael Bisping<\/a>, in the very division where Silva <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-208\/ufc-208-results-anderson-silva-vs-derek-brunson\/\">continues to compete<\/a>, the fight suddenly seems very possible. St-Pierre confirmed the fight as a possibility on the UFC Unfiltered Podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is possible,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would you be interested in a Georges St-Pierre vs. Anderson Silva fight, or do you think the time for this fight has passed? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/7\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva stood out as the two best fighters in MMA.\u00a0Given that they were separated by just 15 pounds, there was always a widespread desire to see them fight. Unfortunately, this super fight never materialized. On a recent episode of the\u00a0UFC Unfiltered Podcast, St-Pierre recounted the UFC&#8217;s previous attempts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":206721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10098,10140],"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 on long-discussed Anderson Silva super fight: &quot;It is possible&quot; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Now that Georges St-Pierre is poised for a return to the Octagon, a fight with long-time rival and fellow MMA great Anderson Silva looks very possible.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/anderson-silva\/gsp-anderon-silva-fight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GSP on long-discussed Anderson Silva super fight: &quot;It is possible&quot; 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