Khabib Nurmagomedov is without doubt one of the largest superstars within the UFC. He is many followers contender for the GOAT of MMA. However, there may be each other fighter who tops many followers record within the best fighter of all time, Georges St-Pierre. A giant part of supporters are at all times debating between who is best GSP or ‘The Eagle’. What’s extra, even each the fighters wish to know who is best and are available on prime towards one another. GSP as soon as revealed that UFC and Dana White as soon as tried to arrange the combat 2 years after his retirement. However, it was maybe a sneaky and misleading try from the UFC head honcho.
Khabib Nurmagomedov is without doubt one of the best UFC light-weight fighters of all time. The Dagestani retired with an undefeated skilled document of 29-0. During his prime many fighters had been evaluating him to GSP. On the opposite hand, St-Pierre was some of the properly balanced fighters of all time. He retired with knowledgeable document of 26-2. He used to combat in an period which was stuffed with killer fighters. Furthermore, GSP gained each middleweight and welterweight championship. One factor which each the fighters really feel was lacking of their profession was the truth that they may not combat one another.
Georges St-Pierre revealed Dana White’s sneaky makes an attempt to arrange Khabib Nurmagomedov combat
GSP revealed that Dana White tried to trick him into accepting a combat towards the Dagestani after retirement. Both GSP and Nurmagomedov as soon as wished to combat one another however UFC had completely different plans. However, a few years later now White and UFC had been open to make the combat.
GSP stated, “Dana discuss to me it was like Khabib already accepted but it surely wasn’t true. It was simply going to fish with me and fish and see how one can make that combat occur. So they knew now that we had been each retired so for them it was a possibility to make a giant cash combat. So I stated, i’m going to consider it and I wait a number of days and I noticed within the media that Ali Abdilaziz got here out publicly and stated that hey now George wish to combat however now we already retired. So it was all BS Dana sort of lied to me. Khabib, they didn’t method Khabib first, they approached me first to make it occur. Not I feel. I do know that for a truth. Yeah 100%. It’s the sport. That’s the character of the sport. It’s a promotion.“
GSP was not pleased about the truth that White tried to make the combat through the use of deception. That too after so lengthy into his retirement. There was a time when each the fighters had been keen to combat. However, UFC had different plans.
Why did UFC not setup GSP Vs Nurmagomedov
According to the Canadian fighter UFC wished Khabib to stay energetic and partake in fights inside the UFC division. When GSP was keen to combat Khabib, they wished him to face the likes of Justin Gaethje and Dustin Poirier.
GSP stated, “It is at all times a query of timing. We tried to make it occur. A yr after I retired we approached the UFC with that concept and Khabib was on board, I used to be on board however UFC had different plans, they wished to. In a enterprise standpoint it made sense as a result of they wished to maintain Khabib. Because they preserve the ball rolling. They knew that I might solely comeback for possibly 1 combat, you understand what I imply. They fairly preserve Khabib energetic. I suppose and never taking the danger , you understand. I perceive and subsequently I consider that it didn’t materialize.“
GSP understands that the promotion was making resolution taking their earnings in concerns. However, he believes that there was sufficient room for them to make a combat.
