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The Takedown | UFC: Georges St-Pierre needs to pass, again, on Khabib Nurmagomedov superfight
- Former UFC welterweight and middleweight champ seems bent on a ‘can’t win’ fight against lightweight king Khabib
- Taking on undefeated Dagestan native would be foolish, as 39-year-old Canadian risks tarnishing his great legacy
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One of the most difficult things for any athlete comes not during the games they play, or sports they pursue, but in accepting when it is finally time to call it quits.
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There may be no better noble warrior the UFC has ever seen than Georges St-Pierre. The 39-year-old was at one time the most dominant force in mixed martial arts, and one of the greatest to step inside the Octagon.
Since 2018, there has been chatter, rumours and blog posts about St-Pierre coming out of retirement again for one last fight. His final bout was against Michael Bisping at UFC 217 in November 2017, a contest St-Pierre won easily to claim the middleweight title, but at times he looked apathetic and, quite frankly, more than ready to hang up the gloves.
Bisping tried to goad St-Pierre into a war of words and it was quite clear in the lead-up to the fight the Montreal native was growing weary of all the trash talking he was being forced to ingest.
So that encore fight he has apparently been pining for now for three years does make some sense in one regard, but in another, looks completely nonsensical. Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov (29-0) is easily the greatest lightweight champion of all-time, and within the “GOAT” (greatest of all time) debate alongside St-Pierre.
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