Georges St-Pierre meddelade nyligen att han ej längre har kontrakt hos UFC, något som organisationen dock dementerade. Nu har St-Pierres advokat Jim Quinn gått ut i media för att förklara hela situationen, och enligt honom är kontraktet rivet då UFC var för långsamma med att ge Georges en match.
Detta hade Quinn att säga om det hela via ”ESPN”:
Our position is the contract is terminated. I suppose they could take legal steps against that or they could offer a new contract. They have a variety of options on their side.
The UFC waited until the 11th-and-a-half hour to come back with bare bones information, that floated one fighter and nothing else,. No specifics at all in terms of fight date, venue, number of rounds. All we got, at the 11th hour, was a proposal for somebody. And as Georges said, we don’t know if [Lawler is] ready and able to fight. All we know is he just pulled out of a fight
We were working through all the issues in play and had been squaring them away. One of them, no surprise, was the UFC has a Reebok deal that came in long after Georges’ contract. We were working through those things, but ultimately, you’ve got to schedule a fight for your fighter. The UFC knows how to schedule fights. This is what they do every day. Send a bout agreement with all the specifics. They didn’t do that here. Why they chose not to do that, I don’t know.
Georges wants to fight. He’s not ruling out the UFC. He just believes, at this stage, they had long enough under the old contract. Now he’ll either fight for the UFC or somewhere else, but he’s going to fight.
Hur hela situationen kommer att lösa sig återstår att se, men än är det inte helt uteslutet att vi får se St-Pierre fightas inne i oktogonen igen.