Georges St-Pierre interested in superfight with Anderson Silva under fair conditions

[Dale]

Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre hasn't always been keen on talk of 'superfights,' but his tone has certainly softened over the past year. St-Pierre even told Ariel Helwani back in July 2013 that he was interested in the prospect, but that he was keeping his plans tightlipped. Now, with all that's transpired with him personally and professionally since last summer, St-Pierre again is stating a renewed interest in one day fighting former middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Speaking with ESPN Brazil and translated by Bloody Elbow's Fernando Arbex, St-Pierre says he'd be willing to take the fight given a number of conditions.

"There were conversations before but they were talking about me going up at 185," says St-Pierre. "I weigh 190 pounds, the guy weighs 230 pounds when he is off season. I'm 190 pounds off season. Right now I'm 195 at maximum. My friends saw him and he is now 230, 235. I know people who know him. He is very big. It's not a fair fight for me. Before, Anderson Silva was in my size when he used to fight in Japan but he is very big now.

"They were talking also that he was going to come in my division when I was the champion and I would have no choice. But me going up and after I fight go back down...I can't play with my weight. I can't come back and fight for the title or in a superfight. It has to respect my conditions, all I ask is a fair fight. Right now I need to take some time off. But if they have an offer with something good, maybe."

Back in May 2013, St-Pierre outright dismissed any discussion of a superfight with Silva after correctly predicting his UFC 162 loss to current champion Chris Weidman. Leading up to the pair's rematch at UFC 168 in December, Silva, himself, called the very concept of superfights 'perfect bulls**t,' more or less trumping them up to cash-grabs. Soon after, UFC president Dana White called the window for any superfight to be 'dead' and 'destroyed,' saying that the era had passed.

Talk of the fight ever realistically happening seemed completely dead in the water until Ed Soares, Silva's longtime manager, reintroduced the idea as a comeback fight for Silva earlier this year. "If we were able to pull something like that off, it would be a win-win for everybody - the fans, the UFC," Soares told USA Today back in January. "I think that would be awesome." With Silva now shooting for a return in mid 2015, could this be a viable option for he and St-Pierre?

Yep, that subject is cropping back up again but surely now more than ever would finally be the chance to see this happen? I know people might dismiss the idea because Anderson lost twice to Weidman but that to me doesn't make the slightest bit of difference, it's still a superfight.

I wish GSP would say what these fair conditions are though because I just get the impression that he won't do a catchweight either and will basically want Anderson to come down to 170 which won't happen.

Anderson said he won't be back in 2014 either so that can give GSP more time away from the sport and let the 170 pound division shape up too.

 

[Slim]

I do hope that the "fair fight" conditions are catchweight cause to try to make Anderson drop down to 170... that just isn't right. Plus since Silva won't be able to fight til 2015... that'd give GSP enough time to get his body in the condition he would want it for a fight at catchweight if it were to go that route.

But yeah although it has lost some luster... I still want to see this fight.

 

[Deezy]

If this fight is booked we all mark out regardless of how their lady fights are viewed. They are big names and UFC and MMA as a whole don't have many of those left.