GSP unsure about return but White ‘confident’

Sunday marked a full year since former welterweight Georges St-Pierre fought, a split decision win over Johny Hendricks. He then took a break for his mental well being, and then tore ligaments in his knee, requiring surgery and rehab.

GSP spoke with MMACanada in Toronto the weekend, and said again that he does not know when or if he will return to fighting.

“I don’t know if I will go back to competition,” said St-Pierre as transcribed by David St. Martin for MMAFighting. “That’s why I didn’t call it ‘a retirement,’ I called it ‘a break’ because I don’t know. Bernard Hopkins has a good analogy. He says, ‘You can’t ask a woman who just gave birth and suffered for many hours if she will have another baby again.’ Same thing for me when I got out of competition.”

“People ask me, ‘Are you coming back?’ I just don’t know. Right now, I just came back from a knee injury, I took a break, had the knee injury, just came back from rehab. It’s time for me to enjoy my life. Training, do it for fun. We’ll see. I need some time.”

“I used to program myself to do certain moves that used to pull my ACL tendon. For me, if I compare it to a train track, I need to re-learn the movement a better way that I don’t put my ACL in jeopardy. To learn it where I’m automatically in the right position when I level [change], when I jump, when I turn. The train will not derail on a good track. The more powerful you go the more the train will derail.”

“I hope my friend and training partner, Rory MacDonald, will get the title. I really hope the best for him.”

At “The Time is Now” press conference on Monday, UFC president Dana White was positive about GSP’s return.

“Lorenzo and I went up and met with him up in Canada, and he’s getting back into training,” said White. “As soon as he’s ready to fight, he’ll let us know, but I’m very confident he’s coming back.”