Den 16 november 2013 ägde Georges St-Pierre vs. Johny Hendricks rum i Las Vegas, en match som St-Pierre slutligen tog hem via ett delat domslut. Vid presskonferensen efter mötet ska St-Pierre ha nekats att delta och enligt organisationen hade Georges förts till sjukhus, men under mitten av presskonferensen dök han upp.
Händelsen ledde till att presskonferensen pausades, och den dåvarande titelhållaren hade ett samtal med Dana White och Lorenzo Fertitta. Detta hade Georges att säga om det samtalet och händelserna runtomkring, via ”The MMA Hour”:
I’m not going to tell you exactly what was said. But I was very pissed off and I used a lot of F words. … I was very angry, they did not support me because of the testing issues for the doping, they did not support me for the anti-doping. And I told them, why they didn’t support for this, and I didn’t understand it. I said ‘you guys need to wake up, because a lot of people are cheating, and stuff, and it’s a freaking joke. You guys are kind of protecting these guys, and it shouldn’t be like that.’ I was very angry.
I didn’t know something bad was going on until they say ’you’re not allowed to go to the press conference’. I found that it was kind of weird, I was waiting in the locker room a long time, it was like, that was kind of weird. It wasn’t until afterwards that I realized what was going on.
Now that I look back, I know that they knew. I’m not stupid, I know it’s business, you spend a million dollars promoting the fight, so they lose a lot of money. it’s not in their best interest to make the drug test the best possible, because they lose money if the fight gets cancelled. So I told them it might take a year, you’re going to lose money for a year because a lot of your main stars, a lot of your guys, will fall and test positive, they might hurt the image of the sport. But after a year, it will put back everything straight.
Enligt UFC ska St-Pierre inte ha förhindrats att delta i presskonferensen, men informationen de fick från läkarna var att han borde föras till sjukhus, något som Georges slutligen inte ville.
