On Saturday evening at UFC 217, Georges St-Pierre returned to MMA after a four year layoff to win the UFC middleweight title with a stirring third-round submission of champion Michael Bisping. It was the culmination of over a year of fight negotiations between St-Pierre, the UFC, and Bisping and resulted in one of the biggest events of the year for Dana White and company; it also apparently almost didn’t happen.
St-Pierre’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach John Danaher revealed yesterday on his Instagram account that “Rush” had serious problems with his weight-gain program for the fight, such that his coaches were considering calling off the fight.