UFC: Georges St-Pierre needs ‘something from left field’ to reconsider retirement after Khabib fight fell through
- UFC legend St-Pierre says ‘it would need a complete 180 degree turnaround right now’
- Former welterweight and middleweight champion will only return for ‘something I never saw coming’
Georges St-Pierre has said he needs the UFC to offer him “something from left field” if he is going to reconsider his retirement from MMA.
The 38-year-old former welterweight and middleweight champion said he hasn’t spoken to UFC president Dana White since retiring for the second time, apart from sharing some text messages immediately afterwards.
“It would need a complete 180 degree turnaround right now,” St-Pierre told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. “Sometimes I’m training with the guys and I still get it, man. I’m not in fighting shape, you’re never in fighting shape when you’re not getting ready for a fight. It’s like a sprinter when he trains, he doesn’t do 110 seconds all year around, he does 110 seconds like certain specific times when he peaks.
“Fighters are the same, they’re in certain condition when they peak, when they know there’s a fight. It wouldn’t take me much to reach fight shape. I can still reach that. However, the fighter is always the last person to know when it’s time to stop.
“So in my mind I still think I get it and believe I can still be champion, but I just don’t know if … my trainer says yes, I just don’t know if I want to get back into it. It would need something that interests me, something from the left field I never saw coming, and I’m like, ‘Maybe, yeah, let’s do it’.”