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Report: Coach says GSP may retire following Hendricks bout

Firas Zahabi reportedly told TVA Sports that "if GSP does not have the motivation after Hendricks fight, he will retire."

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UFC Welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has been muttering vague hints that he's considering retirement for a while now. According to a tweet from MMA Nouvell there may be more to it than just muttering:

Firas is GSP's head trainer Firas Zahabi of Tristar Gym. GSP is set to face Johny Hendricks at UFC 167 in November.

This is a slight change from what Zahabi was telling the press this spring:

"If he fights Hendricks, I think (GSP) could fight for longer. He could have more fights after that. If he fights Anderson Silva, I could really see that being his last fight. He'll retire after that because there won't be a bigger fight for him to do, I think, anymore in his career."

With Anderson Silva's loss to Chris Weidman the potential super fight has seemingly faded off the horizon, leaving GSP with very little to prove.

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