Ultimate Fighting Championship legend Georges St.
Pierre could not avoid scratching his competitive itch
forever.
Prior to the UFC 290 press conference on Thursday, the promotion
held a special event where they announced that St. Pierre would be
fighting again. While not in MMA, he will be grappling for a
UFC-helmed event in December. “GSP” will be competing at the UFC
Fight Pass Invitational 6 show on Dec. 14 as its headliner, which
will likely be at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The opponent has not
yet been announced, and the rules will be submission-only with
special overtime provisions.
This will be the first time that St. Pierre has engaged in any pro
combat sport since his 2017 retirement after UFC 217, when he
choked out Michael
Bisping to become a two-division champ. That concluded an
outstanding MMA career, hanging up his gloves a second time while
riding a 13-fight win streak over some of the most notable names in
the sport. The
Sherdog staff recently cast ballots for a revival of the
Sherdog Top 10 series, ultimately selecting St. Pierre as the
second-greatest male fighter of all time, across pound-for-pound
metrics.
In addition to the grappling contest, the UFC Hall of Famer will
also join the commentary team for the UFC Fight Pass Invitational 5
event in September. He will call the action along with longtime
play-by-play staple T.J. DeSantis, and color commentators Eddie
Bravo and Michael
Chiesa. The lineup of that grappling card has not yet been
announced, or its exact date.
“I’m very excited to be a part of UFC Fight Pass Invitational,” he
said in a statement on the press release provided by the UFC. “I
can’t wait to test my skills and compete on the same card as the
best grapplers on the planet. It’s an amazing time to be a fan of
Brazilian jiu-jitsu and it’s only going to get bigger with UFC
Fight Pass.”