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Manager: GSP has no plans to return in 2015

There has been cautiously optimistic that Georges St-Pierre would return to the Octagon, but it does not appear as if it is going to happen any time soon, if at all.

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Chris Palmquist
January 18, 2015 · 1 min read
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UFC president Dana White has been cautiously optimistic that former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre would return to the Octagon, but it does not appear as if it is going to happen any time soon.

Asked of St-Pierre’s plans for 2015, manager Rodolphe Beaulieu wrote in an email to MMAjunkie, There is no plan for 2015. We are working on a few projects but nothing related for him coming back in the octagon.

Beaulieu indicated St-Pierre’s priority is not to step back into a crowded field of welterweights more than a year after he vacated the belt and took a hiatus from the sport following his ninth title defense against Hendricks.

This past October, White and UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta met with St-Pierre in Montreal to discuss a potential comeback. The meeting did not produce a definitive timeline. With Beaulieu’s words, perhaps we now know why.

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