{"id":1629,"date":"2023-07-07T20:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2023-07-07T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:05:56","slug":"georges-st-pierre-will-make-his-comeback-at-the-fight-pass-invitational-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/georges-st-pierre-will-make-his-comeback-at-the-fight-pass-invitational-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre will make his comeback at the Fight Pass Invitational in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Georges St-Pierre is back!<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">But don&#8217;t expect to see him again in an octagon, his comeback will be on grappling mats.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Georges St-Pierre has not fought in an MMA Octagon since his victory against Michael Bisping at UFC 217 in 2017. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">In February 2019, he then announced his official retirement from MMA, he who had already taken a four-year break<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">before his fight against Bisping.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Since that announcement, GSP has been linked with several potential comeback fights, most notably against Khabib Nurmagomedov.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">A month ago, St-Pierre made revelations about this fight which never took place, proof of which is that the negotiations were very advanced.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_72917\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ssIuWe012lo?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"lRu31\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">And now, we have just learned that Georges St-Pierre is back in competition.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Yesterday at the UFC Fight Pass press conference, GSP announced that he will be fighting on the grappling mats at the end of the year.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Indeed, it will be the main event of the Fight Pass Invitational 6 in December.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"lRu31\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">For the moment, we do not yet know his opponent, but here is what GSP said:<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">\u201cI am 42 years old, I felt good at the end of my retirement, I was training.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">But I need the competition.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">I would like to find sensations again, I would like to feel the adrenaline again.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">I always want to compete, to make money.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">I want to have fun with the UFC fans and family.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"x76ihet xwmqs3e x112ta8 xxxdfa6 x6ikm8r x10wlt62\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F100064662463499%2Fvideos%2F577873407843502%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"Df2gsc\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m still in very good shape,\u201d St-Pierre told\u00a0UFC News. \u201cI love the adrenaline of what a competition gives you, and also I want to give an avenue to fighters who retired. We still want the kick of competition, make money, and also train with and compete when the risk of injuries are to a minimum because of the nature of the sport of submission wrestling. I also want to help submission wrestling and jiu-jitsu to make it bigger.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XF3zjY\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBecause UFC Invitational of Fight Pass is taking over this, I think it\u2019s gonna help make the sport bigger than it\u2019s ever been,\u201d he concluded. \u201cSo, it\u2019s never been a better time to be a jiu-jitsu fan right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"UdTY9 WdefRb\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georges St-Pierre is back! But don&#8217;t expect to see him again in an octagon, his comeback will be on grappling mats. Georges St-Pierre has not fought in an MMA Octagon since his victory against Michael Bisping at UFC 217 in 2017. In February 2019, he then announced his official retirement from MMA, he who had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}