Georges St-Pierre (26-2) vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov (29-0) kommer att gå till historien som en av de största matcherna som aldrig blev av. Under åren har båda UFC-legendarerna förklarat varför matchen aldrig blev av. Nu berättar St-Pierre om det sista försöket att få till matchen där Dana White ljög för honom.
Georges St-Pierre: Dana White ljög om att Khabib Nurmagomedov tackat ja till att fightas
Den 40-årige St-Pierre satte sig nyligen ner med Patrick Bet-David och tillfrågades återigen om den förlorade matchningen mot Nurmagomedov. St-Pierre beskrev detaljerat hur UFC-bossen Dana White hörde av sig till honom efter att både han och Nurmagomedov lagt handskarna på hyllan.
What happened now — because Khabib is retired and I’m retired — so now, the UFC… Dana called me and he’s like, ‘Oh, now would you be interested to fight Khabib?’ He asked me. He called me.
But I thought it was strange because I never wanted to do it. And now, because he called me for that reason, I was like… I didn’t want to do it, but I told Dana, just to see what happens because I was curious. You know it’s always a chess game when the promoter calls you.
I didn’t say no, I said, ‘OK. Let me think about it.’ The way Dana talked to me, it was like Khabib already accepted. But it wasn’t true. It was just fishing to make the fight happen.
They knew now that we were both retired, so now, for them, it was an opportunity to make a big-money fight.
Allt var bullshit
Ett par dagar efter konversationen med UFC gick Nurmagomedovs manager Ali Abdelaziz ut med att St-Pierre bett om en match mot hans klient inom 165 lbs. St-Pierre blev då varse om att White ljugit för honom:
So I said I’m gonna think about it and I wait a few days and I saw in the media that Ali Abdelaziz came out publicly and said ‘Hey, now Georges wants to fight, but now we already retired…’ It was all BS.
Dana kind of lied to me. They didn’t approach Khabib first, they approached me first to make it happen. I know now for a fact (that Dana lied to me). A hundred percent.
