{"id":232893,"date":"2017-04-11T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=232893"},"modified":"2017-04-11T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:07:08","slug":"video-georges-st-pierre-explains-benefited-time-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-georges-st-pierre-explains-benefited-time-off\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Georges St-Pierre explains how he has benefited from his time off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Time Off From MMA Gave To Georges St-Pierre\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s9vy-fOk6CA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After months of conflicting rumors and reports, and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/breaking-georges-st-pierre-announces-now-free-agent\/\">a very public contract dispute with the UFC<\/a>, former UFC welterweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a> is now pencilled in for a return to the Octagon. Though we don&#8217;t yet know when or where this St-Pierre comeback will go down, we know it will occur in the unfamiliar ranks of the middleweight division, where he will challenge reigning champ Michael Bisping.<\/p>\n<p>When St-Pierre steps onto the canvas with Bisping, it&#8217;ll mark his first steps into the Octagon since 2013, when he scored a controversial decision win over Johny Hendricks. While this long hiatus has left many fans and pundits wondering if St-Pierre will be forced to deal with ring rust, the man himself has said this time away has been beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Hayabusa, St-Pierre compared himself to a cellphone, and said the time away gave him the chance to delete unnecessary applications and recharge his battery. See the video at the top of this article, and a transcription of St-Pierre&#8217;s cellphone analogy below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Time off allowed me to&#8230; like a cellphone, you know? Your applications, they drain your battery, you delete these applications and it makes you more fresh. So it helped me to come back more hungry and better. I have accumulated so much knowledge [in my head], I have so much knowledge. And now I&#8217;m in peak, the peak of my career. I don&#8217;t wanna wait too long, because I&#8217;m at 35. I feel stronger than I&#8217;ve ever been. I might need more time for recovering, but I&#8217;m smarter and cleverer than ever.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though St-Pierre has been confirmed to be fighting Bisping next, Bisping is apparently growing impatient waiting for St-Pierre to agree to a date, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-threatens-to-give-georges-st-pierres-title-shot-back-to-yoel-romero\/\">even threatened to give the former welterweight&#8217;s title shot to Yoel Romero as a result<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Georges St-Pierre will look in his return to the cage? 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 4\/11\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of conflicting rumors and reports, and a very public contract dispute with the UFC, former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre is now pencilled in for a return to the Octagon. Though we don&#8217;t yet know when or where this St-Pierre comeback will go down, we know it will occur in the unfamiliar ranks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":157523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10140,2682],"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>VIDEO | Georges St-Pierre explains how he has benefited from his time off | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Georges St-Pierre, who will return from a long hiatus to fight Michael Bisping in the near future, explains how he has benefited from his time off.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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