Georges St-Pierre and UFC President Dana White share a bitter relationship and it has gone worse in recent months. The former was blocked from competing in a boxing match with Oscar De La Hoya and the UFC president made it clear that he was against making the match former.
However, according to St-Pierre, White offered him a huge fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov a few weeks after he nixed the De La Hoya bout, to which he found it ‘strange.’ Conor McGregor FaceTime Call On Drugs Leaks
Georges St-Pierre found it weird as Dana White canceled the bout and offered another one
St-Pierre believes that White wanted to manipulate Nurmagomedov by convincing him that ‘GSP’ was “begging” for a fight against ‘The Eagle.’
Georges St-Pierre explained the situation:
“What happened recently is that Dana White got a lot of heat for not letting me fight Oscar De La Hoya,” Georges St-Pierre told MMA analyst Robin Black. “So he called me a few weeks after and said ‘hey, are you interested to fight Khabib?’, and I thought it was very strange that he did this because they never wanted to make that fight at first, but now that he says that to me – I didn’t really want (the fight) but because I was curious – I said ‘let me think about it.’ But I didn’t really want (the fight) because I’m past, this is past.
So what he did is he went to Khabib and said ‘Georges St-Pierre wants to fight you’, so Khabib thought it was me begging for a fight, but it’s not me. It’s him (Dana White) that tried to make the fight happen because for our promoters and managers… it’s money, that’s what they do. They create a big event, a big fight, and that’s what they are good at.”
