When it comes to dominating the octagon, UFC legend Georges St-Pierre has nothing left to prove.
But although he’s been retired for multiple years, it hasn’t stopped the Canadian MMA icon from getting offers from other fighters — some of them big.
In a new interview with Plejmo.com, former UFC champion Tyron Woodley claimed that St-Pierre turned down multiple lucrative proposals to fight him over the past few years.
“Georges St-Pierre never wanted to fight me. I’ve asked Georges to fight me several times. I had an opportunity to fight him last year and the year before,” Woodley recently told Plejmo.
According to Woodley, who defended a UFC welterweight title four times, the latest deal was to be backed by a Middle Eastern investor and would have earned St-Pierre up to $7 million.
“It was a five to seven-million-dollar purse and he said no. In MMA. My Middle East investor wanted the fight, seven million, but he said no.”
While the fight never happened, Woodley, 42, seemed confident in how the result would have turned out, claiming he would’ve beaten the multi-division champ.
“I would have beat his brains in,” he said.
With two world titles and a 26-2-0 record, St-Pierre last appeared in the octagon in 2017, when he secured a victory over Michael Bisping. He announced his retirement at a press conference in Montreal in February 2019.
The 43-year-old Saint-Isidore, Quebec, native was scheduled to make a comeback in a UFC Fight Pass Invitational grappling event last December but was forced to withdraw due to injury.