UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre has confided in his boss, Dana White, denying rumours circulated by trash news site TMZ about his “personal problems”.
According to Lance Pugmire of the LA Times, the UFC president said he spoke to St-Pierre on Monday and the fighter “is denying those rumors that TMZ is reporting about those two things.”
Those two things are apparently GSP has made some girl pregnant by mistake and that his dad is dying. Apparently “sources” close to the fighter confirmed those rumours to TMZ, which means they might as well have picked them out of a hat.
Nevertheless, internet media has been awash with speculation as to who the lucky girl is and what exactly is killing his dad.
GSP invited all this speculation after he made an impromptu announcement of “hanging up his gloves” following his narrow win over Johny Hendricks at UFC 167 on Saturday. For days leading up to the event, the long-time champion had been hinting about a big announcement.
He explained after clinching the victory that his personal problems were stopping him from sleeping at night and that he was going “crazy” thinking about them. By the sounds of it, this is more serious than the number of twitter followers he has. He could always buy twitter followers.
But White gave short shrift to any talk of retirement and has quickly lined up a rematch.
“As far as a rematch, we’re on schedule and I’ll have a date within a couple weeks,” White said. “I feel confident that Georges is fine with that and all is on track.”
GSP, meanwhile, hasn’t spoken to the media since Saturday and there’s no indication as to how long he’ll be out of the sport.
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