Former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre returned to UFC-related television Wednesday night with an appearance on “UFC Tonight.”
St-Pierre, who has sparked talk of his return by mentioning it in several interviews, discussed recent comments made by UFC president Dana White and the hold up regarding fighting once again.
“He doesn’t know anything about me,” St-Pierre said (thanks to MMA Fighting for the quotes). “I’m a smart guy. I’m not the kind of guy you’re going to say that (about), and okay I’m going to sign right here, I’m going to fight for peanuts. No, I’m a smart person. It doesn’t work, these things on me. But I’m going to tell him something, to Dana, let me fight once and you’ll see in the first minute of the fight that what you just said is wrong.
“Let me fight Tyron Woodley, then we’ll see if I want to be world champion again. I understand what he means, and I’m not angry at Dana. He does what he does for the best of his interests. I do what I do for the best of my interests. One day when all of that is going to be over, we’ll probably be friends, like most of the guys who I’ve fought. But now, it’s like a game. He’s doing his game, I’m doing mine.”
St-Pierre stated that his contract is “old” and that it was made before the Reebok deal. He added that he is “making a lot of money now even though I’m not fighting.”
“Because if I go back and fight I cannot advertise my sponsors, so I’m losing money if I go back to fight on the old terms of my contract,” he said. “So, it’s reasonable. I’m just waiting to so what’s going to happen.”