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Former two division UFC champion Georges St-Pierre has named two fighters that he wishes he could have faced before retiring.<\/p>\n

St-Pierre (26-2 MMA), a former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion, faced a plethora of high profile names throughout his storied mixed martial arts career. His list of prior opponents includes legends such as Matt Hughes, BJ Penn, Jake Shields, Michael Bisping<\/a> and Matt Serra, just to name a few.<\/p>\n

While GSP has quite the resume to look back on, there are two opponents he wishes he could have faced before retiring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always wanted to be known as the best and be the best, and there are two fights that never materialized that could have been made \u2013 but for certain reasons did not materialize,\u201d St-Pierre said in an interview with Helen Yee<\/a>\u00a0(h\/t MMAJunkie<\/a>). \u201cThe first one was against Anderson Silva, and the other one was against Khabib, but for certain reasons it did not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Georges St-Pierre continued and attempted to explain why fights with \u2018The Spider\u2019 and \u2018The Eagle\u2019 never came to fruition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re a fighter, you need the two fighters and the promoter to make a fight happen,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201cEven if the two fighters want, but the promoter doesn\u2019t make it happen, it\u2019s not going to happen. Each fighter brings their terms that they want, then they negotiate, and then it\u2019s up to the promoter to make that happen. It did not happen for these two guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

St-Pierre concluded:<\/p>\n

\u201cFights are made also because of the fans, because of the two guys, the promoter \u2013 but also, timing has a lot to do with it. \u2026 Anderson Silva and I, and Khabib and I, it\u2019s always a question of timing. If you make this fight today, it\u2019s not going to be the same because we lost the timing.\u201d<\/p>\n

How do you think Georges St-Pierre would have done in fights with Khabib Nurmagomedov and Anderson Silva? Share your thoughts in the comment section Penn Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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