Georges St-Pierre says the UFC approached him to tackle Anderson Silva in a superfight, but it surely by no means went past that solitary dialog.
“What occurred was on the time I used to be in my prime and Anderson Silva was in his prime…I can solely converse from the facet,” St-Pierre informed Demetrius Johnson. “I do not know what was occurring with Anderson Silva.
“Dana and Lorenzo solely requested me as soon as…I requested them as a result of I used to be like, okay, please do not get in the best way of me transferring up a weight class, please compensate me as a result of I am completely different.I’ve a number of challenges in my weight class, so if I will combat larger guys, I may need to alter my coaching and attempt to get larger.”
There may be consensus that St-Pierre and Silva are the best fighters of all time at welterweight and middleweight, respectively, and essentially the most profitable champions the division has ever seen. After overwhelming performances by each fighters, this was one of many few instances followers had been desperate to see the 2 champions meet in a dream matchup.
“Rush” mentioned that when the UFC requested him concerning the match between Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta, there have been a number of calls for that wanted to be agreed to to ensure that the match to happen.
“So my request was to combat Anderson Silva. I might like to signal a contract,” St-Pierre defined. “I might prefer to receives a commission higher. For one factor, I might prefer it to be at a catchweight. Anderson was combating at 170 in PRIDE, so I knew he may go down — I do not know if he may have gone down in that second…It looks as if he bought heavier as time went on, so I do not know. That is simply an impression.”
“It could be a catchweight, so I may return down after that. … If I went up, I had to return down, as a result of I would not spend my profession there. And the third factor was, I needed them to do a drug take a look at. And so they did not get again to me.”
Mr. St-Pierre believes that every thing we requested for was on the upswing and that at the moment there was nothing excessive in any means, together with compensation. As a result of they imagine that their request won’t ever be acknowledged as pricing.
“That was my intention: ‘If you can also make it occur, I am in, no drawback,'” St-Pierre mentioned. “If you happen to make it a catch weight of 180 (kilos), I am in. And in the event you compensated me, and it was affordable…and I did a drug take a look at. However they did not observe via on it.”
“I do not know in the event that they requested Anderson about it, however they solely requested me as soon as.”
