{"id":282387,"date":"2018-08-07T04:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T11:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=282387"},"modified":"2018-08-07T04:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T11:45:42","slug":"georges-st-pierre-on-possible-fight-with-anderson-silva-not-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/georges-st-pierre-on-possible-fight-with-anderson-silva-not-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre on possible fight with Anderson Silva: &#8220;not right now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMA fans have wanted to see Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva fight for years. Even now, when St-Pierre has long since abandoned the UFC welterweight title he once guarded so fiercely, and Anderson Silva&#8217;s reign as UFC middleweight champion is a distant memory, a collision between the two greats remains one of the most mouth-watering options on the MMA menu.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference during his visit to Australia, the former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre discussed this long-desired super fight. While the fans&#8217; appetite for this fight has not dissipated, St-Pierre says it&#8217;s one that doesn&#8217;t make sense for him at present.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GSP: &quot;I Would Be Interested&quot; in Conor McGregor vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov Winner\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RiI_C76Hkps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNot right now,&#8221; Georges St-Pierre said, when asked about a showdown with Anderson Silva. &#8220;This fight was interesting at a certain point when I had a lot of contenders in my division and this fight, if it would have been made I wanted it to be made with extra performance drug testing, which UFC was not a fan about because they didn\u2019t want VADA to be a part of it \u2013 before USADA was a part of it \u2013 and also a catch weight. That was my thing. Because as a fighter, you cannot cut, you know? It\u2019s very hard if you\u2019re an active fighter competing every few month to go up and then go down, and I didn\u2019t want to do that. And I guess I wanted to do (the fight) with the extra testing. They didn\u2019t have the testing at the time, and that\u2019s why this fight also never happened. And at the time right now I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good win-win situation for me because I have a lot more to lose than to win fighting right now against Anderson Silva.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While St-Pierre&#8217;s assertion that a fight with Silva doesn&#8217;t make sense &#8220;right now&#8221; implies that he might be willing to take the fight at a later date, it sounds like we&#8217;re running out of time. The 37-year-old doesn&#8217;t plan on fighting past 40.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt 40 years old I\u2019m done for sure,&#8221; he said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to fight in a cage at 40 years old. I\u2019m gonna be a grown man, I\u2019m gonna be past that no matter what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll ever see Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva fight?<\/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 8\/6\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA fans have wanted to see Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva fight for years. 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