Former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre says the surgery to repair his torn ACL went well and he is on the road to rehab and recovery.
The 32-year-old St. Pierre had reconstructive surgery on his left knee on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He had the same surgery on his right knee in 2011 and was out of the octagon for 10 months.
“I climbed Everest once before and I’m going to climb it again — if I want to,” St-Pierre told The Canadian Press on Thursday. “It’s not a problem for me. . . . Anyway I didn’t plan to come back to competition before 2015.
“And if I want to come back, when I want to come back, I’ll do it again. I’ll have all the tools to do it again. I’m not going to be less strong or less athletic — I’m going to be just better.”
“I’ll have two bionic knees,” he added.
St. Pierre has previously said he will return to MMA but has not put a definitive timeline for when that will happen. However he did say that his experience in rehabbing his first knee injury will definitely help him as he works to come back from this one.
“I know the way now. It’s going to be even better. But the thing is you can’t go faster than your body heals. I don’t want to go too fast.”
He said the ACL damage in both knees was the same. The former champ believes the damage to his knees was bound to happen, given the pounding the ligaments have taken over his years in the sport.
“It’s like a rope. If you pull the rope every day as hard as you can — boom, boom, you pull it, pull it, pull it, pull it — one day it’s going to break. It’s the force of pressure. If you hit a wall at home in the same spot every day when you pass by, at one point you’re going to make a hole in it.
“And that’s what happened with my ACL. I’ve been training martial arts since I was nine years old and I’m a very explosive guy.”
St. Pierre also added that he hopes to add a specialist in kinesiology and human movement to correct his movements in training and avoid future problems.
“It’s never going to happen again,” he said. “The pressure will be on my bone and my muscle, not on my ligaments.”
St. Pierre won a controversial decision over Johny Hendricks last November. He then vacated the title in December saying that he needed time away from the sport.
After St. Pierre vacated the title, Hendricks defeated Robbie Lawler (in another close and somewhat controversial decision) to win the vacated championship. Hendricks who is also out of action rehabbing a biceps injury has stated that he has unfinished business with St. Pierre.
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