UFC WELTERWEIGHT KING GEORGE RUSH ST. PIERRE, HAS BEEN MAKING HEADLINES RECENTLY AS HE IS VYING FOR A SPOT ON THE CANADIAN OLYMPIC WRESTLING TEAM. THIS IS NEWS BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY THIS MEANS HE WOULD NOW AFTER HIS MATCH WITH DAN HARDY AT UFC 111 HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO VACATE HIS TITLE AND CHASE HIS DREAM OR CONTINUE HIS DOMINANCE IN THE DIVISION. COMING OFF AN INJURY HE SUSTAINED DURING HIS BATTLE AGAINST TOP CONTENDER THIAGO ALVES AT UFC 100, GSP FACES A DECISION BASED ON IF THE TIME IS NOW FOR HIS DESIRE TO HAVE A CHANCE, TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL IN THE UP COMING GAMES IN 2012. HE HAS STATED ON A RECENT ARTICLE THAT HE IS UNSURE AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HE WILL ATTEMPT HIS DREAM AND THE FACT HE HAS NOT SPOKEN TO DANA WHITE ABOUT HIS DECISION TO TAKE A LEAVE OF ABSENCE FROM THE SPORT THAT HAS BROUGHT HIM FAME ASWELL AND FINANCIAL STABILITY. THE MONTREAL NATIVE HAS QUOTED THAT HE HAS THOUGHT ABOUT HIS OLYMPIC DREAM EVERYDAY AND SAID IT'S A 50/50 CALL RIGHT NOW. TO MAKE THIS CLEAR ST. PIERRE WOULDN’T GET A SIMPLE WALK –ON FOR TEAM CANADA AS HE WOULD HAVE TO QUALIFY FOR THE SQUAD WHICH TAKES ROUGHLY 18 MONTHS OF PREPARATION AND FOCUS PRIOR BEFORE THE GAMES EVEN START.
"I'm a good wrestler but if I wanted to do it, I would have to focus on wrestling and dedicate myself 100 per cent for a period of time," he told in a recent article. "I would not retire now but if I decided to do it I would have to dedicate myself 100 per cent I would say maybe for a year and a half or so."
THERE IS NO GUARANTEE AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HE WILL GET A CRACK ON THE TEAM AND FAILURE TO DO SO, HE MAY EVEN BE AN ALTERNATIVE DESPITE THE HARD WORK HE PUTS IN. ANOTHER QUESTION THAT PONDERS ST. PIERRE'S MIND IS,WHICH DIVISION IN FREESTYLE WRESTLING WILL HE COMPETE IN. THE TWO DIVISIONS SHOULD HE CONSIDER COMPETING IN ARE 74KG/163 LBS DIVISION OR 84KG/185 LBS. ADMITTEDLY HE HAS SAID HE ROUGHLY WALKS AROUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF 193 LBS AND FOR HIM TO CUT TO 163 LBS WOULD MEAN A CHANGE IN HIS WORK REGIMEN. THIS IS A PROBLEM BECAUSE ST. PIERRE IN THE PAST HAS SAID FOR ANY FIGHTERS TO CUT A LOT OF WEIGHT WILL AFFECT THEIR LIFE SPAN OF FIGHTING IN WHICH HE PLANS ON NOT DOING.
PERSONALLY SHOULD GSP TAKE A LEAVE OF ABSENCE FROM MMA AND PURSUE HIS DREAM IN ACHIEVING A GOLD MEDAL FOR CANADA IN THE SUMMER GAMES THE TIME IS NOW. HE HAS ALREADY DE THROWN ALL TOP FLIGHT CONTENDERS THAT WANTED A SHOT, AND IT IS SAFE TO SAY HIS UPCOMING BOUT WITH DAN HARDY, WHO THE FAVORITE TO WIN IS. NOT TO DISRESPECT DAN HARDY BUT I MEAN GSP HAS WAY TOO MANY VARIABLES FOR HARDY TO HANDLE. IN ’09 HE HAS DISMANTLED BJ PENN AND ALVES IN CONVINCING FASHION AND I JUST DON’T SEE A LEGITIMATE CONTENDER FOR GSP. EVERYBODY WANTS THE SILVA AND ST. PIERRE FIGHT HOWEVER KEEP IN MIND GSP IS ONLY 5’10 AND WALKS ROUGHLY 190-195 LBS, SILVA ON THE OTHER HAND IS MUCH BIGGER AND MY ESTIMATION HE WALKS AROUND 120+ LBS. THIS FIGHT WOULD BE A MASSACRE FOR GSP AND AS MUCH AS IT WOULD BE A FIGHT FOR THE AGES I JUST DON’T SEE AS TOO WHY HE WOULD WANT TO TAKE THIS FIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE. LIKEWISE WITH ANOTHER FIGHT AGAINST BJ PENN. PENN WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO HAVE ONE MORE CHANCE AGAINST THE MAN THAT HAS DEFEATED HIM TWICE IN HIS CAREER. THE PRODIGY HAS SAID NOW SINCE HE IS AT THE PEAK OF HIS CAREER ALL HE WANTS ARE SUPERFIGHTS. THERE IS NO REASON AS TO WHY A THIRD INSTALLMENT SHOULD TAKE PLACE BECAUSE ST.PIERRE HOLDS TWO WINS AGAINST HIM. THERE ARE JUST SOME FIGHTERS YOU GOT TO RESPECT THAT ARE MUCH BETTER THAN YOU AND YOU GOT TO LET IT GO.
IF GSP DOES PLAN ON LEAVING IT WOULD MEAN EITHER VACATING HIS TITLE OR AWARD AN INTERIM BELT UNTIL THE CHAMP HAS RETURNED. THIS WOULD BE INTERESTING BECAUSE NOW THE TOP CONTENDERS IN THE DIVISION CAN FIGHT FOR THE INTERIM BELT SO THAT ONCE GSP HAS RETURN A SET UP FOR A UNDISPUTED WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT CAN TAKE PLACE, WHICH WILL DRAW HUGE NUMBERS FOR PAY PER VIEW BUYS. ST. PIERRE DECISION COULD ALSO AFFECT THE POPULARITY OF THE PROMOTION BECAUSE GSP IS SECOND TO BROCK LESNAR AS BEING THE MARQUEE AND MOST MARKETABLE FIGHTER IN UFC. NOT SURE AS TO WHETHER DANA NOR ZUFFA WILL BE PLEASED LOSING ANOTHER MARQUEE PERSON AS BROCK LESNAR, WHO IS STILL SUFFERING FROM AN AILING DISEASE THAT COULD POTENTIALLY END HIS FIGHTING CAREER. I AM CERTAIN THAT DANA WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO TALK TO GSP INTO NOT CHASING HIS DREAM AND CONTINUE TO HELP UFC AND THE SPORT OF MMA TO BE MAINSTREAM. UFC WILL SUFFER WITH THE LOST OF BROCK LESNAR AND GSP AND WITH THE RISE OF STRIKEFORCE AND THEIR TWO FANTASTIC CARDS RECENTLY THE PROMOTION UNDESTANDS THAT THERE IS A LEGITIMATE THREAT AS TO WHICH PROMOTION IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD. IF DANA PLANS ON CUTTING THE CHANCE FOR GSP TO REPRESENT CANADA AT THE LONDON GAMES NOT ONLY WILL IT SHOW HE HAS NO HEART, BUT A BUSINESS MAN THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT THE COMPANY AND NOT THE FIGHTER. I AM A BIG FAN OF DANA AND TO WHAT HE HAS DONE TO KEEP UFC AS THE BEST PROMOTION IN THE WORLD IS AMAZING, HOWEVER AFTER HOW HE HAS DEALT WITH FIGHTERS IN THE PAST RANDY COUTURE, TITO ORTIZ, DAN HENDERSON, AND QUINTON RAMPAGE JACKSON I JUST DON’T WANT TO SEE GSP TO GO THROUGH THE SCRUNITY LIKE THE FIGHTERS BEFORE HIM. ST. PIERRE HAS ALREADY HELPED BUILD THE SPORT AND THE PROMOTION AND I JUST HOPE THE MANAGEMENT AND GSP CAN COME UP WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT BEST SUIT BOTH PARTIES.
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