{"id":712041,"date":"2026-06-03T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/712041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:23:13","slug":"gsp-reveals-three-conditions-that-killed-anderson-silva-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/712041\/","title":{"rendered":"GSP Reveals Three Conditions That Killed Anderson Silva Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a> has finally explained why the fight many consider the greatest matchup never made in UFC history never happened \u2014 and the answer is simpler than the years of speculation suggested. <\/p>\n<p>GSP put three conditions to the UFC, waited for a response, and never received one&#8221;: &#8220;My request was to fight <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/anderson-silva\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson Silva<\/a>, I want to be put under contract. I want to be compensated better, one. I wanted this to be done at a catchweight, because Anderson fought in PRIDE at 170, and I knew he could go down. And the third one was I wanted to have drug testing implemented. And they never got back to me,&#8221; St-Pierre said<\/p>\n<p>The three conditions were not unreasonable on their face. The compensation request reflected the commercial scale of a superfight between two of the sport&#8217;s greatest champions. <\/p>\n<p>The catchweight proposal had sporting logic behind it \u2014 St-Pierre was a natural <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/welterweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welterweight<\/a> and Silva had competed at 170 pounds in PRIDE, meaning a middle ground between 170 and 185 was a legitimate basis for negotiation rather than an attempt to gain an unfair advantage. <\/p>\n<p>The drug testing request was the most pointed of the three, arriving at a time when performance-enhancing substance use was a persistent topic in MMA and one that St-Pierre had spoken about publicly on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The silence from the UFC ended the conversation before it started. St-Pierre retired after stopping Michael Bisping for the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a> title at UFC 217 in 2017, while Silva parted ways with the promotion in 2020 following three consecutive losses. A brief flirtation with a boxing match between the two in 2021 stalled without producing anything concrete.<\/p>\n<p>The fight that would have settled one of the sport&#8217;s great hypotheticals \u2014 the greatest welterweight against the greatest middleweight, in their respective primes or close to it \u2014 now belongs permanently to the category of what might have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre has finally explained why the fight many consider the greatest matchup never made in UFC history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-712041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}