Former two-division UFC champion Georges St-Pierre did not make the all too common mistake of sticking around the fight game longer than he should have. St-Pierre vacated the welterweight championship and stepped away from fighting 12 years ago, following his UFC 167 title defense against Johnny Hendricks . He’d return four years later to fight for the middleweight championship against Michael Bisping at UFC 217 in 2017. “Rush” captured the 185-pound title, relinquished it, and officially hung up the gloves. “The temptation is always there but there’s something you can not beat. It’s time.
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Georges St-Pierre tells fighters to ‘retire on your terms, not on their terms’ – MMA Weekly