Part of the reason Georges St-Pierre decided to retire earlier this year was due to the lack of truly compelling match-ups for him in the UFC.
One fight that did pique St-Pierre’s interest, however, was a potential mega-money bout with undefeated UFC lightweight champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Both St-Pierre and Nurmagomedov expressed a mutual interest in the fight but, according to ‘Rush’, the UFC simply wouldn’t play ball.
“I am retired,” St-Pierre said in a recent interview with DAZN’s Robin Black, per MMA Fighting’s Jed Meshew. “I retired because I didn’t want to go back and do the same thing over and over again.