MMA welterweight GOAT Georges St. Pierre saw one of his records broken on Saturday – current division champion Kamaru Usman defended his title successfully for the third time, and pushed his streak at 170 to 13. GSP too won 13 in a row, but the final fight was at middleweight, where he defeated Michael Bisping to become champ champ. 

St-Pierre spoke recently with JD Bunkis and Ben Ennis on Sportsnet 590 The Fan’s The Good Show, and said a fight vs. Usman does not interest him.

To go back and give three months of my life in a training camp to get a win over Kamaru Usman doesn’t get me motivated,” said GSP, as transcribed by Adam Martin for BJPenn.com. “I don’t think there’s anything that would get me motivated to go back to competition now. I’m not sure … [I’ve] lost motivation a little bit.

Try to put yourself in my shoes and try to come back. First, if I come back to fight Kamaru Usman, I would literally have to leave the country. I would have to bring my coaches somewhere, find a base camp, fly in training partners to get ready for Usman. But leaving my home, I don’t want to do it. I’m healthy, I’m wealthy. It’s not appealing to me to lose three months of my life, the stress, to try and get a win over Usman. As time passed by, it’s getting less and less appealing. And I don’t think there’s anybody now that would make me come back. I’m good. I will always train and be in shape.”

It seems like people want to see me go on my shield. A lot of guys wait too long to retire and they kinda go on their shield and I never wanted to do this. I wanted to compete at my best and now I’m at the point, are my best years behind me? They could be. Now I said to myself I don’t want to compete if my best years are behind me. Your knowledge grows but your physicality is diminished. I’m 39, gonna be 40 soon. If I would have done something it would have needed to be something that was really special that would really get me to the core of my motivation. I don’t have the same motivation as right now. It’s not appealing to me. I’m a big fan, I like to watch fights. But I look at them with the stress and I’m like hell no, I’m not doing it.

GSP is on record as being motivated to fight lightweight GOAT Khabib Nurmagomedov, but the UFC appears intent on trying to coax “The Eagle” into a rematch vs. Conor McGregor. UG, is a massive, fleeting opportunity being missed here?