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Johny Hendricks to Georges St-Pierre: Stay retired, your next UFC fight will be even worse

Everyone's got an opinion on whether former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre should return to mixed martial arts (MMA) competition.

You can count his previous foe, Johny Hendricks, as another pundit.

"Bigg Rigg," who faces kickboxing import Stephen Thompson in the UFC Fight Night 82 main event this Saturday night (Feb. 6, 2016), was pitted against "GSP" back in Nov. 2013 and lost a highly competitive split decision to the Canadian stalwart.

Hendricks, 32, went on to capture 170-pound gold in his next outing, but is now on the championship chase following another contested split-decision loss, this time to current king Robbie Lawler at UFC 181 back in Dec.