WWE reportedly interested in MMA legend Georges St. Pierre

[karl100589]

Retired MMA fighter Georges St. Pierre has drawn the interest from WWE. According to comments Georges St. Pierre made to TVA Sports, WWE approached him at the ESPN awards recently and asked him about coming to work for them.

GSP noted that he does not know if he would be ready to dive back into something such as going to work for WWE, however.


“It’s a form of competition and I do not know if I’m ready to go back into it,” said St-Pierre in French to TVA Sports regarding WWE. “If I accept, it will be for a special event.”

“I don’t know if I’d want to sign a contract and do it every week and making it a living,” he continued.

GSP is said to have put WWE in contact with his agents.

“They wanted to contact my agents, I gave them their number, but I don’t want to switch to wrestling full time,” GSP added.


Georges St. Pierre On MMA Retirement

GSP continued to say it was not the damage from fighting that had him worried about long-term damage. The former 2-division champion says he’s more worried about the damage from the stress he feels before fights.

“My biggest fear was not the punches,” GSP said. Often, the damage to the head comes from how one trains. In my case, my biggest fear was the stress I was feeling. We know that it can cause cancer.”

Source: www.sescoops.com/wwe-reportedly-interested-in-georges-st-pierre/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Get ready for the nicest trash talk in history

[dbrussel]

LOL. The guy is 38 & with a semi broken body.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Super Domino!!!

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

It’d be interesting for a one off, or a 3 match run or something. But GSP as a full time roster member? Terrible idea, same as with Cain Velasquez

[EyeofTyr]

May 31, 2019 12:21:56 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

It’d be interesting for a one off, or a 3 match run or something. But GSP as a full time roster member? Terrible idea, same as with Cain Velasquez

Yeah, if you are going to do something with him I'd ideally want a three match set of Wrestlemania, Summerslam and then Wrestlemania again to round out the set. With him preferably training like mad man in the Performance Center with their best people to make them tolerable in-between the matches (and before the first one). 

[rnrk supports BLM]

May 31, 2019 12:13:59 GMT -5 dbrussel said:

LOL. The guy is 38 & with a semi broken body.

That's younger and fitter than most of the guys they're using as draws on the big shows nowadays.

[Deleted]

No more MMA guys. PLEASE.

[Deleted]

Bryan would be best at carrying him

[Andy Martin]

“Triple H, uh, I am not impress Wit-cher per-for-mance”

[Doctor No]

I just want to see Vince’s reaction the first time GSP cuts a promo. “THAT. ACCCCCENT...YUUUUCCKKK!!”

[salz4life]

Look... in the ring, I'm sure he would be decent. But, his promos would be awful. I love him in UFC, but I just don't think it would be all that great. I don't think it would be awful... but just ok. Vince probably thinks it would be good sh*t right?

[Bub (BLM)]

Fix the root problems? Nah. Let's just get more MMA band-aids.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Triple H just got finished watching his best of 2011 UFC dvd

[Kevin Hamilton]

GSP is my favorite fighter ever, but while he's likable as Hell, he in no way has a personality for wrestling and any promos would likely be ROUGH.

[Deleted]

I love that the WWE will try to sign anyone that had any name value in MMA. Can’t wait for the backlash when they bring Greg Hardy in after a legit fighter annihilates him.

[tenshi]

GSP had a good match with Captain America in Winter Soldier and he used to be a fan when he was a kid. I'm fine with Special Attraction GSP having a go at wrestling.

[thetower52]

So f***ing sick of these MMA guys

[Phil Parent]

Scoop: He's nominally trained as a pro wrestler. He's taken classes before he was a big name in MMA. Not saying he's a bonafide pro wrestler, just saying he's trained some. Most Quebec MMA guys have, just like in Japan, the MMA scene was linked with pro wrestling early on here.

HUGE wrestling fan.

You should be able to Google both of these things, he probably mentionned it in interviews.

Very nice guy, maybe too nice for the business.

[Paul]

Because they just don't have enough guys on the roster right now to push as it is I guess...

[Kevin Hamilton]

May 31, 2019 15:06:48 GMT -5 tenshi said:

GSP had a good match with Captain America in Winter Soldier and he used to be a fan when he was a kid. I'm fine with Special Attraction GSP having a go at wrestling.

He did and it was awesome, but he barely had to speak and when he did it was in his native French.

Physicality would not be the issue at all. Georges just ain't gonna cut ya a good wrestling promo.