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Dana White: Georges St-Pierre will fight for the welterweight title when he returns

No one seems to know for certain who Georges St-Pierre will face when he finally makes his long awaited return to the UFC.

After first announcing that he had inked a new deal with the promotion, St-Pierre was matched up with middleweight champion Michael Bisping but the fight was never given a confirmed date.

As it turns out, St-Pierre was dealing with an eye injury that will keep him sidelined until at least November, so UFC president Dana White declared that he would no longer face Bisping when he returns to the Octagon.

Since that time, Bisping has also been forced to sit and wait due to a lingering knee injury, which then forced the UFC to crown an interim middleweight champion as Yoel Romero meets Robert Whittaker at UFC 213 in July.