Georges St. Pierre Talks About his Injury

The UFC Welterweight Champion spoke about his injury:

It's pretty bad, I'm in real bad pain. It happened in the third round, and I don't remember exactly, but when I was on the bottom, in my guard, and Thiago pushed my knee down and I heard my groin, my abductor snap.  I heard a noise and it was pretty bad.

I came back in my corner and some people are going to see that on TV and are going to laugh. I come back in the corner and I told my trainer I pulled my abductor, and my trainer Greg Jackson, he says to me, 'I don't care!  Hit him with it!'  So I was like I guess I have to go back there and finish the fight.  That's the gameplan. So I fought on it, with the adrenaline it's not so bad, now it's getting really bad, it's really painful.

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My fight was supposed to be the fourth on the card, and they called us a little bit at the last minute because of the pay-per-view, so we got called and I really didn't have much time to warm-up as well as I should have done.  It's my mistake too, I'm a professional, I'm a world champion, I should have been ready for something like that. It's just that I was not informed that I was jumping in before I was supposed to.

He also spoke about his next fight:

I want to face the best guy... Right now, I'm in really bad pain. I'm going to take a step back and take a look at it and we'll talk about it, and in a couple of weeks we'll see.

It is really remarkable that Georges St. Pierre was able to perform that way even when he sustained an injury half way through the fight. He still took Thiago Alves down at will, he still won the striking exchanges, and he still seemed to possess the same explosiveness and speed on the later rounds. Lesser men would've folded and it just shows how much heart the welterweight champion has.

After retaining his belt, Joe Rogan brought up potential match ups against the winner of Kampmann vs. Swick or a super fight against the Anderson Silva. I think that both scenarios are fine, but I prefer that GSP dips his toes in the middleweight division first, much like what Silva did when he fought James Irvin. This way, we could gauge how he fairs at middleweight and the welterweight division could sort itself out and find a clear cut no.1 contender.

Of course, none of these could happen if the injury is serious, so hopefully he recovers well and we get to see him in the cage soon.

HT: MMA Weekly

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