Dana White on GSP Comeback: “I laugh at it”
If you believe that George St-Pierre will come back to the Octagon, well, you clearly have a different opinion than Dana White.
“I highly doubt it’s going to happen,” White told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday. “Because GSP’s been off for too long and has a ton of money.”
Earlier this November, Freddie Roach, the Canadian’s long-time boxing trainer, revealed that the former welterweight UFC champion will test himself in a six-week training camp in order to understand where he is at and finally decide whether to fight again.
“He’s going to train for a fight. He’s going to have a six-week training camp,” Roach said to Fight Hub TV. “And at the end of the six weeks, if he feels like he’s ready to fight, and he’s hungry for it like he always has been, he’s going to do it. He going to fight one more time.”
According to Dana, this is a worthless process. For him, the reality is much simpler: either you know it or you are not hungry.
“You don’t do a six-week camp to learn if you have the hunger. You either know it or not. Robbie Lawler knows it, he’s hungry, he trains like an animal. You’re either hungry and an animal or you’re not. It’d be great if he comes back, yes, I love Georges St-Pierre — amazing athlete — but comeback talk? I laugh at it. To be a world champion, you have to be hungry. That’s not GSP. Not even close.”
It’s hard to say if the words of the UFC president are sincere or just a provocation to push St-Pierre back inside the Octagon, from which he’s being missing for two years now, when at UFC 167 he defended for the ninth consecutive time the welterweight title against Johny Hendricks before announcing he would have left the competition for some time. Make no mistakes though, if GSP decided to come back, the UFC’s doors would be wide open before him.
