Silva: UFC super-fight with GSP will happen
Posted September 27, 2012 1:01 pm.
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Despite the fact UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva fights Stephan Bonnar at UFC 153 in less than three weeks and Georges St-Pierre takes on Carlos Condit a month later, Silva still can’t stop talking about a super-fight with GSP.
“I hope this is my next fight,” Silva recently told Brazilian media. “We want to do a super-fight. I drop a little weight and he goes up a little.
“It is going to happen anyway, it is (UFC president) Dana White’s wish. I think fighting him makes all the sense as well because he is a great name of the sport. As a UFC athlete I want to fight the best and St-Pierre is one of them. Then we try to put on a good show for the fans.”
This long-talked about matchup has been discussed for years and recently White went on record saying that the bout was as close to being done as it ever has and that it would be contested at a catchweight between the welterweight limit of 170 pounds and the middleweight limit of 185 pounds.
St-Pierre recently told UFC CENTRAL that he doesn’t want to move up to middleweight just yet and that he would prefer for Silva to come all the way down to 170 pounds, opposed to a catchweight of around 178 pounds.
White also added that it would most likely take place at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas.
Although Silva is fighting Bonnar at light-heavyweight, he says he has no desire to take a run at Jon Jones’ 205-pound title.
“I’m doing this fight only to give it to fans here in Brazil,” Silva said. “The fight against Chael Sonnen should have occurred (in Brazil), but there were issues that prevented it.
“I don’t have any intention to continue fighting in this division. My category is 185 pounds. Period.”
Following a UFC 154 press conference on Thursday St-Pierre told Sportsnet that he has not even thought about Silva because all his focus is on his upcoming bout with Condit.
