Jorge Masvidal has made it a habit of “baptizing” his opponents, and says Georges St-Pierre would suffer the same fate if they ever met inside the octagon.
Former UFC middleweight and welterweight champion St-Pierre (26-2 MMA, 20-2 UFC) currently is retired, but Masvidal (35-13 MMA, 12-6 UFC) would love to be the one to lure him into a second comeback.
After sending Ben Askren into his second retirement following his devastating flying-knee knockout at UFC 239, “Gamebred” said he wouldn’t mind taking on that role again in a potential fight with St-Pierre.
“Well, they’ve said this about me: that I resurrect fighters and then I retire them again,” he told Submission Radio. “So I wouldn’t mind if ‘GSP’ jumped on that campaign.”
Masvidal had a remarkable year in 2019. He resurrected his own career with three stoppage wins to cement himself as one of the sport’s biggest stars. Now he’s dining at the UFC’s top table. A potential matchup with legend and future UFC Hall of Famer St-Pierre is certainly something he’d be interested in.
“In all honestly, as a competitor, I want to (expletive) break his face,” Masvidal said. “I want to go out there and give him everything I’ve got. But I respect the time, what he’s done. Then he took I don’t know how many years off, came back, beat (Michael) Bisping for the legitimate middleweight title. Dude’s a stud. He’s a (expletive) animal, bro.
“I would put everything into my being, into my soul, to end this individual – because he’s that good. He’s the type of fighter, this (expletive) would require a nice training camp, isolation away from the world, and just focus on the task, just day-in and day-out, ’cause he’s a hell of competitor, and I’m not taking a back seat to nobody in this division. So I would love it.”
