Georges St-Pierre Will Challenge Michael Bisping in UFC Return
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:26 am
This should be a great fight!!!!
Georges St-Pierre Will Challenge Michael Bisping in UFC Return
Little by little, Georges St-Pierre‘s return to the Octagon is becoming real.
UFC president Dana White on Wednesday revealed via SportsCenter that St-Pierre's first fight back in the UFC would be a challenge for the belt. Only, it won't be in the welterweight division that St-Pierre once dominated.
When St-Pierre sets foot back in the Octagon, it will be opposite UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping.
St-Pierre stepped away from the sport in November of 2013 after making the ninth consecutive defense of his UFC welterweight championship.
His entire time out of the Octagon, St-Pierre never said never to a return, frequently teasing a comeback.
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He had been in the thick of negotiations with former owner Lorenzo Fertitta in 2016, targeting a return opposite Bisping. Negotiations fell apart during the change of UFC ownership, but were rekindled in 2017, culminating with White announcing that St-Pierre had signed a new deal in mid-February.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/georges-st ... --mma.html
Georges St-Pierre Will Challenge Michael Bisping in UFC Return
Little by little, Georges St-Pierre‘s return to the Octagon is becoming real.
UFC president Dana White on Wednesday revealed via SportsCenter that St-Pierre's first fight back in the UFC would be a challenge for the belt. Only, it won't be in the welterweight division that St-Pierre once dominated.
When St-Pierre sets foot back in the Octagon, it will be opposite UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping.
St-Pierre stepped away from the sport in November of 2013 after making the ninth consecutive defense of his UFC welterweight championship.
His entire time out of the Octagon, St-Pierre never said never to a return, frequently teasing a comeback.
TRENDING > Georges St-Pierre: ‘Stephen Thompson is the Best Striker I’ve Seen in My Life’
He had been in the thick of negotiations with former owner Lorenzo Fertitta in 2016, targeting a return opposite Bisping. Negotiations fell apart during the change of UFC ownership, but were rekindled in 2017, culminating with White announcing that St-Pierre had signed a new deal in mid-February.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/georges-st ... --mma.html