During a conference call Friday, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre announced that he will vacate his belt. Following his last fight, a split-decision victory over Johnny Hendricks that sparked a significant controversy, St-Pierre had announced that he would be taking time off for personal reasons.
” I’ve been fighting for a very long time at a high level, it’s a lot of pressure, a lot of criticism,” St-Pierre said in an opening statement. ”I decided I needed to take a time off, I know the UFC is a business and they can’t wait on my personal [business] they need to keep things rolling. I’m vacating my title for the other competitors.”
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