MONTREAL — Even after watching UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre thrash Josh Koscheck for five rounds, UFC president Dana White can’t elevate the Canadian to No. 1 on his pound-for-pound list.
According to White, that honor still belongs to the UFC’s middleweight champion, Anderson Silva.
“This is a guy who’s wiped out the 185-pound division,” White said. “He really has. Not only has he wiped out a division, he beat a couple of guys at 205. That’s why this whole debate over pound-for-pound … I love Georges St. Pierre. He’s awesome, he’s a superstar and everything else. But he lost not too long ago to Matt Serra by knockout. [Anderson] has never lost in the UFC, and he’s moved up a weight class and beat two f—ing tough guys at that weight.”