Could it finally be here?

August 25th, 2007, this is the first time I ever saw George “Rush” St. Pierre fight. It was against Josh Koscheck back in UFC 74 and Koscheck had a head of steam coming into the fight. GSP beat him handily, controlling the pace and earning a 5 round unanimous decision victory. What amazed me was not so much is skills in the ring, but his humble and honest demeanor afterwards, I knew just from his post win interview that he was not only a warrior but a true student of the game. Nearly 10 years, and 11 title defenses later, I may get the opportunity to watch him again, for the first time. In a recent interview with Israeli journalist Ram Gilboa, GSP reveals that not only is he still interested in re-joining the UFC but he’s set to start the USADA testing process on August 10th, 2016.

“I don’t want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about performance-enhancing drugs,” St-Pierre told writer Ram Gilboa. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption — I don’t want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else. That’s why I’ll be starting the process Aug 10. I don’t have any fight yet, but it’s gonna happen now, because I’m getting tested, if I’m getting tested it’s for a reason.”

While GSP does not have an contract just yet, him and his agent Mike Fonseca are currently hammering out negotiations with the UFC. The talks were previously halted due to the $4 billion dollar selling of the start up company are now back in full swing. As for his opponent, who knows? Everybody has been rumored to coming out of the woodwork from Middleweights Anderson Silva and current champion Michael Bisping to most recently welterweights Nick Diaz and Tyron Woodley. While the Canadian superstar never says never to anything, he did say he’s planning on concentrating on the 170 lb division.

185 is not my division, I don’t make my career at 185, it was to be a super-fight, for it was an exceptional reason.

For me there is no reason why to go up in weight class, because when you go up in weight class you have to fight bigger guys – then you have to train against bigger guys. The guys are not better, they’re heavier, but it means you have more chance to get hurt. Not because you get beat up – because you slip, or-

(St. Pierre points to two vertical scars starting at each knee and running narrowly further down the shin).

I had two ACL injuries in my life, and both of them happened when I was training with bigger guys; a heavyweight and a light heavyweight. Sometimes it’s not even because the guy is good, you just get hurt.

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