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Dana White Insists Georges St-Pierre Is Retired

The Dana vs. GSP drama just got fired back up again:

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It looks like the Dana White-Georges St-Pierre drama has been fired back up.

Slightly more than seven months after St-Pierre returned from a nearly four-year layoff to submit Michael Bisping in the main event of last November’s UFC 217, the legend’s status is currently unknown. What is known is that he won’t be fighting at 185 pounds, as GSP vacated the belt hardly a month after winning it, citing a bout with colitis due to the increased caloric intake required to fight at middleweight.

He’s been linked to a bout with Nate Diaz at August 4’s UFC 227 but has denied it vehemently, and there were whispers of an unofficial lightweight tournament also featuring Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov that ultimately fell apart. Word is St-Pierre may just want to fight McGregor or Khabib, or perhaps both.

However, UFC President Dana White is up to some old tricks. He asserted that St-Pierre didn’t actually want to fight when rumors ran rampant he would return last year, almost goading the legendary former two-division champion into a run. In an interview with TSN (via MMA Junkie) this week, White proclaimed that ‘as far as he was concerned,’ St-Pierre was retired:

“We’ve been talking about a fight with ‘GSP,’ but ‘GSP’ is retired. As far as I’m concerned, ‘GSP’ is retired right now. He’s not interested in fighting anybody.”

St-Pierre recently had a lengthy appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast where he didn’t mention retirement but did affirm that his health was still giving him problems, putting his status at below one hundred percent and making an August fight with Diaz highly unlikely.

White took the fact that GSP wouldn’t be ready to face Diaz in August as a confirmation he didn’t want to fight at all:

“We were trying to do a fight with him and Nate Diaz in Los Angeles, and ‘GSP’ doesn’t want the fight. ‘GSP’ doesn’t want to fight right now. He’s not interested in fighting.”

Aside from White’s assertion, however, there is no evidence whatsoever that St-Pierre is considering retirement, even though he was obviously out for almost four years prior to his emphatic return against “The Count” at Madison Square Garden. St-Pierre remains in the USADA testing pool, indicating that he is at least contemplating yet another UFC return.

Is White just challenging his onetime top draw in the media once again so he comes back for a huge PPV?

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Where Are They Now? The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) Winners

Find out where your favorite The Ultimate Fighter winners are now:

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With the UFC having now secured a new broadcasting deal with ESPN from 2019 onwards, Dana White recently admitted that ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ show may finally be on its way out after a 27season series run.

As such, now seems like a good time to take a look back at what has become of every single one of the long-running show’s 35 ‘Ultimate Fighter’ winners to date.

Find out what your favorite past winners of TUF are up to now:

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Diego Sanchez

It’s a testament to Diego Sanchez’s durability that 13 years after winning TUF season 1 he remains the only fighter from that historic series to still be actively competing in the UFC, having amassed 27 fights (16-11) to date.

However, after suffering back-to-back first-round knockouts in his last two fights, it’s possible that the 36-year-old’s memorable career is now entering its final stages, though Sanchez has assured his fans that, “I’m not done yet.”

Forrest Griffin

Arguably TUF’s most iconic winner, Griffin’s fight with Stephan Bonner in the Season 1 finale was declared as the most important fight in UFC history by Dana White, while he’d also go on to win the light-heavyweight title too.

Griffin retired in 2013 at the age of 33 due to chronic injuries, but he’s since been inducted into the UFC’s Hall of Fame and now works for the UFC as their Vice President of Athletic Development.

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Report: UFC Considered Tournament with Conor McGregor, GSP, Khabib and Nate Diaz

The UFC has reportedly shelved plans to organise an unofficial mini-tournament in the lightweight division that would have pitted Georges St-Pierre, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor …

Manager: “UFC Should Be Talking To GSP, Not Conor” For Khabib’s First Title Defense

Although the fight fans hoped to see materialize was against Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov is apparently setting his sights on another fighter. Ali Abdelaziz, manager of the reigning UFC Lightweight Champion, said that a fight against former UFC Welterweight and Middleweight Champion Georges “Rush” St-Pierre at 155 pounds is the fight to make for his […]

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Watch: Conor McGregor Buys Lavish New Vacation Home

Conor McGregor is spending some of that Floyd Mayweather money:

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Former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor may be out of action as he awaits a June 14 court date on assault charges, but he’s still living it up in Europe.

The ultra-popular, ultra-polarizing MMA star recently purchased a $1.5 million custom villa in Spain, no doubt a byproduct of his boxing match with Floyd Mayweather last year. Although the Irishman lost via 10th-round TKO, he also banked a rumored $100 million when it was all said and done.

That allows you to buy things like the brand-new villa, which includes luxuries such as a gym, a spa, and even a LED-lit driveway. He may not be fighting – and his return is anything but uncertain as he deals with his arrest and his contract dispute with the UFC – but McGregor is no doubt living the high life.

Check out his all-new villa courtesy of NESN right here:

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Georges St-Pierre Jokes About “Poisoning” Nick Diaz

Georges St-Pierre is having a laugh over recent claims from the Diaz brothers. Back in March 2013, St-Pierre defended the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight title against Nick Diaz. The bout headlined UFC 158 inside the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. St-Pierre won the fight via unanimous decision. Not only did Nick’s brother Nate accuse St-Pierre of using steroids, […]

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