UFC: Jorge Masvidal open to Georges St-Pierre fight – ‘I wanna break his face’
- ‘I resurrect fighters. And then I retire them again. So I wouldn’t mind if GSP jumps on that campaign,’ Masvidal says
- ‘The dude’s a stud. I would put everything into my being and my soul to end this individual because he’s that good’
You would think Jorge Masvidal has enough big fights on his plate, what with Conor McGregor and Kamaru Usman making so much noise.
But he’s thrown another huge name into the mix.
Asked by Australia’s Submission Radio about whether he would be interested in a potential super fight with retired former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre, Masvidal was open to the idea.
“They’ve said this about me, that I resurrect fighters. And then I retire them again. So I wouldn’t mind if GSP jumps on that campaign,” Masvidal said.
“In all honesty, it’s a competition. I wanna break his face and go at him with everything. I got respect for what he’s done, then he took how many years off, came back and beat [Michael] Bisping for the legitimate middleweight title. The dude’s a stud.
“I would put everything into my being and my soul to end this individual because he’s that good. He’s the type of guy that would require a good training camp, isolation, away from the world. Focus on the task day in, day out, because he’s one hell of a competitor.”
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The legendary St-Pierre first retired from the sport in December 2013, out of frustration at the UFC’s lack of a drug-testing programme.
He returned in November 2017 to beat Michael Bisping at Madison Square Garden, becoming a two-division champion, but retired again over the UFC’s unwilling to match him up with lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, whom he is still pushing to fight.
“I’m not taking a back seat to nobody in this division. So I would love it,” Masvidal added, however, on a potential fight with the Canadian. “It would be a hell of a fight, but who knows. I don’t know his plans, I don’t know if he’s retired or what.”
