ST PIERRE BACK FOR 134

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Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC President Dana White has made announcements for three UFC events to be held north of the border in Canada this year as the show marks its return to Toronto and Montreal and will also make its debut in Calgary too.

Canada has been one of the most popular destinations for the sport and great crowds are expected this year as well and there has been talk that the greatest Mixed Martial Arts athlete to hail from Canada, Georges St Pierre, might just return from a knee injury that has kept him out of the ring since December to bolster the event in Montreal and pull greater crowds.

However, Dana White, who was present at a talk show confirmed that it wasn’t sure, however, that St Pierre would be fully fit by the time the UFC hits Montreal for UFC 154 on November 17th but he went on to add that the promotion would be glad if he did mark his return to the UFC in his hometown. White added that when it comes to a knee injury, there is no telling how long it will take for someone to make a comeback but as far as Georges St Pierre is concerned, they are hopeful that he will be fit for the show.

White further stated that St Pierre is not only popular in his home state and country, but he can draw huge crowds almost anywhere he goes and as a result, there is no use putting him in oxygen chambers to fast forward the healing process.

He stated that Georges St Pierre is not just the pay per view champion, but he is popular all over the world. He could easily fill out a stadium if he fought in Pakistan as well, according to White.

ST PIERRE STILL RECOVERING

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Georges St. Pierre suffered one of the worst types of sport injuries back in December, a torn ACL as well as a damaged meniscus in his knee.

Pierre also suffered an injury in October as well, although it was only a sprained knee, his trainer believes that Pierre tore his ACL due to the sprain and his intense training regimen and style. “He kept training and it tore,…I don’t think he’ll come back too fast”.

The devastating second injury forced Pierre to withdraw from his fight with Nick Diaz that was scheduled to take place at UFC 137. Now that Pierre is injured again, Diaz will now fight Carlos Condit at UFC 143. Diaz was originally scheduled to fight Pierre at UFC 143 but the injury obviously took that chance from him. UFC 143 takes place on February 4th in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

According to Zahabi, Pierre has begun the process of recovery and dealing with his injury. Pierre had the surgery soon after he injured his knee in December, and is planning on receiving therapy and rehab from the head trainer of the Sport Science Lab, Gavin MacMillan. MacMillan is known for treating well-known NFL stars who have had various types of debilitating injuries. Upon looking at Pierre’s injuries and surgery results he had this to say “Things are looking really good…everything is lined up for success”.

The knee injury effectively ended Pierre’s chance of fighting at all this year, with his soonest possible fight taking place in November. And this is only because of Pierre’s pleas with the UFC to keep a spot open for him on one if the final cards of the year. The planned fight would take place between Pierre and the winner of the upcoming Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit fight.

Focus on: George St Pierre

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Georges St Pierre is a Canadian mixed martial artist who is currently the Welterweight at the UFC. Besides this he has made himself a pretty good hold at the pound for pound tournament where he is currently ranked at the second spot by a number of sports websites and magazines such as ESPN, Sher dog and Yahoo sports. He is also the most renowned athlete in Canada as well and has won the Canadian Athlete of the year for 3 consecutive years on 2008, 2009 and 2010.

George St Pierre or better known as GSP made his debut to the UFC Championship when he fought and won with Parisyan at the UFC 46. His next fight was also a raging success and he managed to defeat his opponent in a knockout. Soon enough it was seen that he managed to rise on top with his amazing performances and successive victories and eventually ended up becoming the number one champ in the welter weight division.

There has been a great stir in the UFC of late when news came about Georges St Pierre injuring his knee. Reports say that he needs to undergo surgery and has to take rest for a good eight months before rejoining again as a fighter. This news has come of great help to all the other fighters and more importantly to Nick Diaz who was scheduled to fight this superstar sometime this month.

Many feel that with GSP out of the circuit for quite a while, there will be an interest and excitement generated from within to see who becomes the next reigning champ for this brief duration. While no one wants to loose a prime and important player like Georges St Pierre, they do not mind having to see another fighter rise to fame in this short span of time.