UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre (13-1) will fight at middleweight (185) and light heavyweight (205) if he continues to slay 170-pound competition, according to a recent interview with MMANews.com.
There is one stipulation, however: The current titleholder cannot be a friend or training partner.
Since I don’t see Patrick Cote, David Loiseau — or any of “Rush’s” training partners — beating UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva anytime soon, I don’t think that will be a problem.
St. Pierre notes his constant drive for new challenges as the reason behind the revelation. And, while Anderson Silva vs. Georges St. Pierre would be an absolute dream fight, I really can’t see GSP bulking up to 205.
According to the interview, he walks around at 185 pounds, meaning he’d have to pack on 20 pounds of muscle — not that easy. Neither is current 205-pound champ Chuck Liddell for that matter …
Despite the interviewers inability to pronounce the champ’s first name correctly (the “s” is silent) the clip is worth a listen. Who am I kidding? Every interview with the Canadian is worth a listen.
He also mentions that he is about 90 percent healed from his injuries thanks in large part to MMA witchdoctor Peter Goldman and the “Zone Healing” approach to recovery.
There are a lot of other interesting points, including his penchant for Pina Coladas.
What is it with these tough UFC champions and their foo-foo drinks?
St. Pierre is scheduled to fight Matt Serra at UFC 69 on April 7 in Houston, Texas.
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GSP: Don’t get too cocky like Hughes. How about a couple of challenging title defenses before you start getting too creative.
Erhardt, GSP is not cocky at all.
Thanks for the link to the actual GSP interview in the article – how can you not smile listening to GSP. I can’t imagine a nicer, more giving guy being champ. Everything about GSP is top notch.
Where can I listen to this interview?
GSP can’t train at 170 without getting injured twice in a year’s time. Imagine training with an extra 20 lbs of mass?
I agree with Erdhart, get Diego Sanchez out of the picture before you start looking at other weight classes. 185? It could happen. 205? Liddell would go through him like a tissue at a snot party.
Dude click on the MMANews link in the post, there you’ll find the interview
if he can successfully defend 3 title matches (not including hughes rematch), then I give him the go ahead to get the middle weight belt… but not the LH. I have to agree with ufcmania, a GSP vs Silva fight would make any fan drool. “Anderson Silva, I am unimpressed by your performance.”
It’s not Georges fault that he like foo foo drinks, he’s French Canadian afterall… I am english Canadian, so I have political reason’s to bash the France Canada folks…
One thing I won’t bash is GSP’s fighting ability! Also he has got to be the classiest Champ going. Allthough except for Tim all the UFc Champs are great guys.
I think GSP vs. Silva could be the fight of the year if it happened. I’m not sure that GSP’s striking is at SIlva’s level, but GSP has ways to pull of win’s even when he is being out struck.
Can you imagine a cro cop vs. Liddel showdown…
Hey jesse, what the hell are you talking about?! He’s only had two training injures in his entire career! Think before you speak, man!
GSP is a great fighter, but he is putting the cart waaaay before the horse. Like Jesse said, he can’t fight more then twice in one year without getting injured. Lets see if he can take on Matt Hughes again, then maybe Diego and go from there. But with his speed, he really would be a great matchup for teh Spider. Liddell… would poop in his Pina Colada.
Listen to the interview and it’s pretty obvious that he doesn’t say outright that he is moving up in weight. It’s not one of those BJ Penn “I’m going to hold three belts at once” statements.
He jsut feels that if he beats all the top dogs at 170 — Sanchez, Hughes, Fitch, etc. — he’ll look elsewhere.
At the very least, this won’t happen until sometime 2008.
Real nice flattering photo of GSP. Couldn’t find anything better for the guy?
GSP deserves a lot more respect.
The fact is, GSP is the champ of the most talent rich weight division the UFC has.
Liddel’s division is sparse and Tim “The Lame-iac” Sylvia’s division is so weak my granny is in line after Randy Couture comes out of retirement for a big pay-day. TRavis, Cro Cop would snap Liddel in two. Did you hear the Mirko kicks when they landed this weekend?
gsp is overrated he will beat serra no doubt but let me tell you that the future of that division is sanchez he will be the next champ matt hughes is a great fighter who will beat gsp if they fight again but nobodys stopin the nightmare and if you think koscheck has a chance ur crazy and the iceman will go down this year
I kinda agree with Jaydee, why show a picture of GSP’s busted face?
On topic though: cool down, its just his plan. is that any different to saying “in 5 years, i want to own my own business”.
Matt… GSPs overratted??? I can see how you think that after beating B.J Penn then smashing hughes. are you crasy??? NOBODY in the 170 class can fuck wit GSP. I will say this! if sanchez is the champ its because GSP fighting at 185 Penn stays at 155 and matt hughes retired!
Anyone that says GSP is overratted hasn’t watched his fights. The guy is on another level – floating like a butterfly across the cage, and stings like super-bee.
Is it me or has holding the belt for such a short period of time already begun to affect his modesty?
I think its a great idea for St.Pierre to think about, and ballsy too. Im not sure, but has Liddell ever had the balls to go up and fight Heavyweight? I respect that he isnt interested in just sitting and holding his welterweight title as long as he can. And in responce to the Sanchez fight, come on, Sanchez couldnt even get Alissio down, how is he going to handle the retard strength of St.Pierre, his striking inst as good either. I would still like to see another St.Pierre Penn fight before he moves up though.
Yeah i would love to see Silva vs. St. Pierre. This isnt some really arrogant statement that the new champ is making and promising to people, GSp has dominated the welterwieght division for the last couple years..Hes dominated Karo, Sean Sherk, Frank Trigg, then beat BJ and Matt..All fighters who are that good want new challenges, they want to make history, they want to show how good they really are and test themselves, its nothing to do with being cocky. Is Dan Henderson cocky for fighting guys bigger than him all the time? As far as the Diego comment, I would like to see Diego fight GSP, or even Hughes just to prove that hes not the cats meow, im afriad he doesnt stand a chance against either of them.
so GSP drinks pina coladas, Tim Syvia drinks grasshoppers, i honestly hope we dont find out that Chuck Liddell gets drunk off of one and a half Mike’s Hard Lemonades, or Shmiranoff Ice.. after a hard day of training to kick peoples heads off Cro cop likes to kick back with a nice bahama mamma wine cooler…
Chuck looks like a whisky guy, or possibly even Grey Goose and Red Bull.
Just an educated guess from a moonlighting bartender — the mohawk could be misleading, however.
The picture of GSP was the brainchild of our designer. Blame him. Although, it does capture, I think, the gutsiest performance ever displayed by the champ.
my guess is Chuck does beer and Cro Cop does jager.
GSP vs the Spider…god almighty, this would be a dream.
I think GSP can absolute be comfortable at 185-lbs. He looks slender at 170 lbs. 205??? nah!
It’s true he needs to defend his title a few times, which I have all the confidence he will. Look at all the guys he beat…
GSP is over rated, and Diego Sanchez is the next champ???
Matt, you have got to be Latino aren’t you?
Props to the pic of GSP. Now that’s a fighter…
chuck is a whisky guy and cro-cop i’m not sure, either vodka or jager.
Come on now, i hope this is a bad joke. GSP is good at 170 but not that great. BJ handled him on their feet and Anderson Silva would just anialate him standing up! GSP should just stay at 170 and hold onto that belt as long as possible. And if chuck read this non-sense about 205’s he would just laugh. If that was to happen we might as well have a memorial service emediatley after… RIP gsp
HOLD UP!!!!Alright I’m gonna try not to be too biased here….GSP’s human like everybody else, and as much as I like the guy and a huge fan doesn’t mean i think he’s devine and will never make mistakes…But in defense, with his broken english accent, he still displays how intelligent he actually is, it doesn’t matter who he faces he soo well rounded that he can tweak his game enough to capatize and anyones weekness without leaving a huge gap in his already solid ensemble…If he ever fought Silva…Lutter exposed what Silva lacks on the ground, if Georges passed Hughes’ guard like Dodge Viper drag racing a Toyota Tercel, Silva will be TKO’d in matter of seconds with his dirty ground and pound, thats not even to mention he’ll still rain down the pain from inside the guard. Lutter isn’t explosive enough to get out of the triangle…plus he was already beat before he got into the ring….Diego is pretty intelligent as well, but he’s always fighting light as welterwieght and he’s another Holier than thou, I can believe I have the biggest dick on the planet, put me in a penis mesuring contest, i’m sure there’s somebody a little bigger out there…Welterweight Division is super thick, Hughes will be buttered up until his kids college tuitions are paid and he can afford to spend the rest of his natural life artificially inseminating cows and holding hands with his twin brother while fly fishing in some Deliverance riverside setting, but in actualality i can see the welterweight division staying volitile and sooner or later Georges will slip up and lose like everybody else to a better prepared fighter…i hate to see the day but we live in this place called reality and everybody has their day…Koscheck too cocky to ever be a champ, and with some a couple of timely loses i could picture him on TUF8 The ComebackII as one of those”i got caught with a lucky dick in my ass” Lets face it the UFC will never allowe someone to hold more than one belt at a time, they’ll lose too much in PPW $$$ waiting for the unified title holder to recover..
Gsp over rated? holy shit man are you on crack? He always puts on an amazing performance, but he did seem a little off in the penn fight but I believe if they fought again he would beat him much more convincingly than the first fight. I could see an improvement in his stand up from the penn to the hughes fight, but that damn penn is almost impossible to knock out and hughes seems to have not much of a chin. I think hughes/st.pierre 3 will be a war with hughes going back to his old ways of fighting and abandoning trying to impersonate chuck liddel, and can’t imagine sanchez/koscheck getting past either of them. I agree with jordan that gsp has a very real chance of taking out the spider, I also feel hughes has a good chance also as lutter exposed his weakness’s and we have yet to see gsp’s weakness’s.
George St. Pierre is a barbarian. He will eat you and spit you out in the next morning. Pierre is only getting better and obviously showed that when he viciosuly mauled Matt Hughes to avenge his reign. If he wants to compete at both levels by God let him do it.
I spelled viciously wrong.
hendersons huge payday in the ufc. henderson is comming to the ufc yes he is.this will be the biggest payday in mma history.he will take on lidell. all the belts from 170 to 205 are in danger because he can win all three weight classes. I rank henderson third best in the world behind feder and cro cop
Dan Henderson only beat Silva because Silva didn’t live up to his nickname the “Axe Murderer”. If Silva actually came in there and started pounding on him he would of beat him.
I don’t think you know much about Henderson, Tyler. Henderson has never been knocked out. The outcome was inevitable.
Alpha stop talking about the pride fight. What you said has nothing to do with GSP or the UFC. GSP is an excellent kicker and is the best welterweight champion in the UFC.
it has alot to do with it because he is comming to the ufc
Well yeah, but since he isn’t there now it’s not acceptable to be bringing him up in a GSP forum.
dan henderson is an awesome fighter and im a fan but trying to predict an outcome of fights that probably won’t happen? why try to make anybody believe what you say is right? there will always be a unknown fighter out there come in a dominate like no other and dissing matt hughes? he was a good champion!you try being a poster boy for ufc and a dominant one at that and not let it get to your head eventually everybody has an ego look how you guys play up your ego making predictions of your favorite fighters!! you dudes know it all man point is every fight is going to be different like all humans are differant what works for one guy might not work for the next guy just take it as it is and respect the fighters for giving us entertainment and we as fans should just watch cause thats what we are is fans
HOLD UP !!!!! SILVA WON THAT FIGHT ON THE GROUND IN SUBMISSION HOW CAN YALL SAY THAT HE HAS A WEAKNESS, HE HASNT SHOWN A WEAKNESS YET…. HE BEAT LUTTER AT HIS OWN GAME JUST LIKE HE DID FRANKLIN. YOU GUYS HATE THE SPIDA JUST AS MUCH AS DANA WHITE DOES. GIVE THE MAN THE RESPECT HE EARNS BEST MIDDLEWIGHT IN THE WORLD BY FAR. I LOVE READING ALL THE COMMIMITS THAT SILVA HAS A WEAKNESS. PLEASE TELLL ME BECSUE I HAVEENT SEEN IT. YALL SAID HE CANT STAQND WITH FRANKILN. NOSE BROKEN IN THREE DIFFERENT PLACES THREEEEEEE!!!!!! DOSENT HAVE A GROUND GAME. TRIANGLE CHOKE TO TRAVIS LUTTER ONE OF THE BEST JIU JITSU GUYS IN THE UF 2ND ROUND. SILVA LET THAT FIGHT GO TO THE GROUND TO PROVE HE CAN FIGHT ANYBODY. AND I KNOW A BUNCH OF YOU “HARDCORE FANS” ARE GONNA BE LIKE OOOOOO JIMMY YOUVE ONLY BEEN WATCHING MMA SCINCE TUF. AND YOUR JUST ON HIS BAND WAGON. WELL THATS BULL CARP SILVA IS THE MAN AT 185 AND IF THERE WAS EVER A BELT FOR POUNG FOR POUND HE WOULD BE ONE OF THE TOP 3 GUYS.
PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SOMKE IT NICK DIAZ
Who’s complaining about the pic? That’s an *awesome* picture of GSP. He’d be boring if he were just a pretty boy, but he’s not. This picture actually adds to his appeal. He’s hot, bottom line!! But what do I know? I’m just a girl.
I hope he doesn’t move up in weight class though. Seems a little premature to be thinking about that right now…
Foo-foo drinks? That can be easily forgiven when one has the body and fighting ability of his…..
GSP already fights around 185 IN THE 170 DIVISION LOL. GSP holds the 170lb belt fighting at around 185 in the ring.. wow that’s really cool isn’t it?