Following his victory over Jake Shields at UFC 129, welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre was asked if MMA fans could expect to see him face off against middleweight champion Anderson Silva in a “superfight.”
“We’ll see,” St-Pierre told UFC commentator Joe Rogan. “I just finished my fight. I haven’t considered that yet. Going up in weight class is a lot to consider. Maybe there are other ways. We’ll talk.”
Meanwhile Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz seemed eager to step into the cage with St-Pierre,
“Yeah, I didn’t know if they’d be talking about [me fighting GSP] or what you know but let me get in there with that guy,” Diaz recently told GnP TV. “They had him in there with my partner and look what happened to him, you know what I mean?
“What do you think is going to happen to him if they put him in there with me? I don’t know, I’d like to start getting paid up here, I’d like to get that fight or I’d like to make something happen here, something different, something big.”
“I feel like I’m ready for that fight, I’ve been ready for that fight. I just feel I’m even more ready for it now. I want to get this show on the road.”
“Like I said, I’m not getting any younger and I don’t think old Georges is getting any younger, and I need some change in lifestyle, you know?”
While Diaz has recently signed to fight former IBF champion Jeff Lacy in a boxing match, his MMA contract would allegedly allow him out of that fight in order to take a boxing bout.
With that in mind, Bleacher Report presents 10 reasons why the UFC needs to make the Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz fight happen now.