{"id":392510,"date":"2021-08-18T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=392510"},"modified":"2022-02-04T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T23:13:44","slug":"georges-st-pierre-reveals-how-dana-white-tried-to-make-up-for-blocking-oscar-de-la-hoya-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/georges-st-pierre-reveals-how-dana-white-tried-to-make-up-for-blocking-oscar-de-la-hoya-boxing-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre reveals how Dana White tried to make up for blocking Oscar De La Hoya boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georges St-Pierre was open to the idea of yet another comeback \u2014 just not in an MMA cage.<\/p>\n<p>Widely considered one of the greatest fighters of all time, if not the greatest, St-Pierre is now 40-years old and hasn&#8217;t fought since his middleweight title capturing against Michael Bisping at UFC 217 in 2017. However, when boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya announced his comeback, &#8220;GSP&#8221; was looked at as the first opponent before the eventual <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-praying-vitor-belfort-kos-crackhead-oscar-de-la-hoya-viciously-knocks-him-out\/\">Vitor Belfort<\/a> matchup was finalized.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian likely would have gotten the described &#8220;fun&#8221; opportunity if it wasn&#8217;t for UFC President Dana White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI even called [former UFC owner] Lorenzo [Fertitta] to try to convince Dana,\u201d St-Pierre said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2021\/8\/18\/22631248\/georges-st-pierre-opens-up-about-how-dana-white-ufc-prevented-him-from-boxing-oscar-de-la-hoya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting&#8217;s MMA Hour<\/a>. \u201cLorenzo liked the idea, but Dana did not want it. I knew he hates Oscar but I said to him, \u2018Listen, I\u2019m going to make Oscar look bad because I\u2019m in great shape. I\u2019ve been staying in great shape the whole time and I\u2019m going to do a full boxing training camp with Freddie Roach and his world champions there, so I\u2019ll be very well prepared.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first he says to me that the reason why he did not want it is because he thought that Oscar would basically destroy me in a boxing match. And I had some good arguments \u2014 I told him that I believe Oscar has more mileage than I do, he\u2019s no longer in his prime, I stayed busy the whole time, I\u2019m still in great shape, I\u2019m going to be very well prepared and I\u2019m taking this fight very seriously. If I do it, because it\u2019s my name \u2014 my image is attached to it \u2014 I will do it 100 percent. And I told Dana, I said, \u2018If there\u2019s one MMA fighter that go to boxing and look good in this situation, it would be me.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If there was ever an MMA fight to bring Georges St-Pierre back one more time, it was widely known to be the potential meeting with lightweight legend, Khabib Nurmagomedov. White was aware of that along with both parties&#8217; interests. The timing was just off by this point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd at first he refused,\u201d St-Pierre continued. \u201cThen he thought about it but he came back with the argument that, oh, no, it\u2019s not because he thinks Oscar is going to win; he thinks it\u2019s because he doesn\u2019t like the fact that Triller takes me and makes money off my back while I\u2019m still under contract with UFC. So what Dana says \u2014 listen to this \u2014 then he came back and he asked me if I wanted to fight Khabib. And I told Dana, I said, \u2018That\u2019s very strange. Why didn\u2019t you want to do the fight when we asked you a few years ago? Why is it now?\u2019 He said, \u2018Yeah, because Khabib was not retired and he was not the same guy that he was. Now it all makes sense.\u2019 So I didn\u2019t want to, but I was curious to see what would\u2019ve happened, so I said to him, \u2018I\u2019m going to think about it,\u2019 and I waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurns out that, shortly after, I saw in the media people saying that, oh, now Khabib, he doesn\u2019t want to fight me because I asked for the fight with Khabib. I never asked for the fight with Khabib. It\u2019s Dana White that probably went to Khabib and [his manager] Ali Abdelaziz and told them that Georges wants to fight Khabib. We asked a long time ago, but I didn\u2019t ask again. I didn\u2019t beg for that fight again. 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