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December 11, 2023 11:20 am ET
LAS VEGAS – Georges St-Pierre assures everybody that there’s zero likelihood he’s part of UFC CEO Dana White’s huge plans for 2024.
White teased his intentions of placing collectively a superfight subsequent yr, which had folks speculating that former twin champion St-Pierre may very well be concerned. St-Pierre, who has remained in nice bodily form after retiring in 2017, shortly shut down that concept.
“Completely not,” St-Pierre informed MMA Junkie and different reporters after Sunday’s UFC Battle Go Invitational occasion. “I promise you, I all the time informed myself that I can’t battle within the cage after the age of 40. I don’t say I’ll by no means compete in any fight sport occasion, however a battle in a cage professionally in a critical factor for my legacy, I can’t do it.”
St-Pierre was scheduled to compete on the UFC Battle Go Invitational on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas in a rumored grappling match in opposition to former foe Nick Diaz, however an harm pressured him out. He ended up commentating the occasion as an alternative.
Whereas he gained’t battle, St-Pierre remains to be thinking about grappling so long as his shoulder absolutely recovers.
“I’m extraordinarily aggressive, and typically I overlook that I’m 42, and I don’t give myself sufficient relaxation, and that’s why I feel I partially tore my labrum, my subscap, and my rotator cuff,” St-Pierre mentioned. “However my shoulder is getting higher, and we’ll see the way it goes.”
St-Pierre, a former longtime UFC welterweight champion, hasn’t competed in fight sports activities since he returned from a four-year layoff to claim the middleweight title from Michael Bisping in November 2017 at UFC 217.
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