{"id":320325,"date":"2019-07-24T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=320325"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:23:59","slug":"georges-st-pierre-considers-khabib-nurmagomedov-a-legacy-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/georges-st-pierre-considers-khabib-nurmagomedov-a-legacy-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre considers Khabib Nurmagomedov a &#8216;legacy fight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre is seemingly happily retired. That being said, the Canadian MMA legend also seems to be keeping the door open to a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/radio\/montreal-690\/gsp-my-legacy-match-would-be-against-khabib-1.1340020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TSN<\/a> recently, St-Pierre explained that he&#8217;d return for an easy payday, or for a fight that positively impacts his legacy \u2014 like a showdown with undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I have to pick whoever I want, I\u2019ll pick the easiest fight possible and I\u2019ll run away with the $50 million,\u201d St-Pierre joked (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/gsp-says-ufc-lightweight-champion-khabib-nurmagomedov-is-legacy-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA News<\/a>). \u201cIf I want the legacy fight, Khabib is the man to beat right now. He\u2019s the best fighter in the world right now to me. Undefeated and he hasn\u2019t shown any kind of weakness. Nobody has ever come close to solving the puzzle, so that\u2019s why it was very interesting for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nurmagomedov, of course, has been campaigning for a fight with St-Pierre some time. Not even the Canadian&#8217;s retirement has curbed the Russian champion&#8217;s ambition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorges already was welterweight champion and middleweight champion, and I know if he comes back he wants to fight in lightweight championship,\u201d Nurmagomedov <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/khabib-nurmagomedov-acknowledges-georges-st-pierre-might-be-too-old-for-comeback\/\">said<\/a> in his own recent interview with TSN. \u201cHe can make weight, he\u2019s not very big. He\u2019s like 190 195 [pounds]. A lot of lightweights [weigh] more than him. I think he can make weight and it\u2019s going to be a great fight if I fight with him, if I defend my title with him. For legacy, even for him, even for me, it\u2019s going to be a great fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll ever witness a fight between Georges St-Pierre and Khabib Nurmagomedov? Who do you think would win this dream matchup?<\/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 7\/24\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre is seemingly happily retired. That being said, the Canadian MMA legend also seems to be keeping the door open to a comeback. Speaking to TSN recently, St-Pierre explained that he&#8217;d return for an easy payday, or for a fight that positively impacts his legacy \u2014 like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":302879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10140,10114,39610],"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>Georges St-Pierre considers Khabib Nurmagomedov a &#039;legacy fight&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former two-division UFC champ Georges St-Pierre explains the appeal of a fight with reigning UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.\" \/>\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\/ufc\/georges-st-pierre-considers-khabib-nurmagomedov-a-legacy-fight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Georges St-Pierre considers Khabib Nurmagomedov a &#039;legacy fight&#039; 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