Georges St-Peirre tog en paus från MMA efter att ha försvarat bältet mot Johny Hendricks under UFC 167, och i dagsläget är det oklart om vi någonsin kommer att få se honom inne i oktagonen igen. Själv känner St-Pierre att han borde ha tagit sin paus redan för en eller två matcher sedan, och detta hade han att säga via ”GNP1.de”:
There is different reasons of why I took a break. What I can say is, I’m not sure, I don’t know right now if I wanna come back or not. I’m not sure when, if I do. So it’s still the same answer as before.
I’ve been doing this sport at the elite level for a very long time. I’ve been champion for like nine years, eight years. And it’s a very stressful life. You have a lot of criticism, a lot of pressure and critics, and everything put together, it hit you a lot. You don’t wanna hear the critics sometimes, but it’s still there. I’m a sensitive guy, and it hit you, hit you, and you’re never good enough and stuff. So for my mental health, I needed to step out and get a little bit of a social life.
I became world champion by training for fun. And then the fun became business, and business became stressful, and then you lost fun. I didn’t have fun at the end, I did it because I had to, not because I wanted to. I should have actually stopped maybe one fight before, or two fights before, but I couldn’t. It was always constantly another guy challenging me. Carrying all this weight on my shoulders, I felt like I needed to do it, instead of wanting to do it.
Georges har i dagsläget 12 raka segrar bakom sig, där 11 av dem varit titelmatcher.
