{"id":262886,"date":"2017-11-02T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=262886"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:02:37","slug":"dan-hardy-thinks-georges-st-pierre-challenges-tyron-woodley-ufc-217-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dan-hardy-thinks-georges-st-pierre-challenges-tyron-woodley-ufc-217-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Hardy Thinks Georges St-Pierre Challenges Tyron Woodley With UFC 217 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of more sleepless nights until UFC 217 is finally upon us. Michael Bisping will defend his UFC middleweight title against the returning Georges St-Pierre, which is a huge fight for any card. However, even the biggest of fights always have us all asking what will come next. St-Pierre has said he&#8217;s contractually bound to fight Robert Whittaker next if he becomes champion again on Saturday. Dan Hardy has another idea as to what St-Pierre might decided to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[Georges St-Pierre] said himself in his contract for the title fight against [Michael] Bisping that it\u2019s in there that he defends against [Robert] Whittaker immediately afterwards. I think that he would, I think that he would take a fight against Whittaker. Against someone like Rockhold, I don\u2019t think he would. I think he would rather relinquish the belt and maybe go for [Tyron] Woodley. But I think alternatively, I think he may fight Bisping and if he wins and takes the belt I think he\u2019ll challenge Tyron Woodley straight away. You know, he comes back, he fights twice, he wins two belts and then he retires. That\u2019s a good gamble in my eyes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SO CLOSE. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC217?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC217<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mpzu42qwPL\">pic.twitter.com\/Mpzu42qwPL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/926086757019369475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Tyron Woodley\u2019s been talking about how he\u2019s the greatest welterweight of all time, and if Georges St-Pierre comes back and loses to Tyron Woodley it does affect his legacy at welterweight. Whereas, losing to Bisping at middleweight doesn\u2019t have any effect on the record books or his campaign at welterweight. He\u2019s still the greatest welterweight of all time, even if he does come back and lose to Bisping. But if he comes back and wins and he doesn\u2019t have to force himself down to 170 with a weight cut as well, you know, a lot\u2019s changed including USADA, you know, no IV bags anymore and that kind of thing. So, I kind of feel like he\u2019s chosen Bisping because he knows he\u2019s gonna get a high-pressure fighter and he\u2019s going to be easier to take down than Woodley, that\u2019s not necessarily got the knockout power that Woodley\u2019s got, and if he loses to him, well, he\u2019s lost to the middleweight champion and he\u2019s still the greatest welterweight. I think it\u2019s a very strategic decision, but I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a lot of thought that\u2019s gone into it.\u201d\u00a0<span>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.submissionradio.com\/\">Tyron Woodley speaking to Submission Radio<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley has said himself that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/tyron-woodley-claims-hes-got-next-ufc-middleweight-title-shot-ufc-217\/\">he wants his next opponent<\/a> to be the winner of Bisping and St-Pierre&#8217;s title fight. Even declaring he&#8217;d move up permanently to middleweight if he won, which opens up tons of challenging and exciting fights. Dan Hardy thinks it would be the opposite. That if St-Pierre has a successful return winning a belt in a new division, he&#8217;d go back and stake his claim as the welterweight king once again. Either way, we can&#8217;t wait to see how this all unfolds this weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x27EWwRYGTc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJPenn.com<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>on 11\/2\/2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of more sleepless nights until UFC 217 is finally upon us. Michael Bisping will defend his UFC middleweight title against the returning Georges St-Pierre, which is a huge fight for any card. However, even the biggest of fights always have us all asking what will come next. 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