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GSP IS/ISN’T FREE
Posted: 121616

Not Sure What His Status is

During an appearance on the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani Georges St-Pierre announced that he was a free agent: "Right now I’m a free agent. You head it right, I’m a free agent. My lawyer terminated the contract with the UFC." GSP revealed that he was making progress on a deal with Lorenzo Fertitta before UFC was sold but was told by the new owners that the deal was no longer valid. When informed the offer was no longer in play St-Pierre’s lawyer sent the UFC a legal deadline to give him a fight. He was offered a fight with Robbie Lawler but Lawler wasn’t planning on fighting for a while. St-Pierre claims what he asked for was financially reasonable, but he was told by the UFC before the sale that they were taking a financial risk by bringing him back and would have to spend a lot of money reintroducing him to the audience. That didn’t make any sense to St-Pierre or anyone else. UFC has contradicted GSP and claims he is still under contract. His lawyer told ESPN otherwise, “Our position is the contract is terminated. I suppose they could take legal steps against that or they could offer a new contract. They have a variety of options on their side.” We have seen this before with Randy Couture who spent $500,000 fighting UFC in court before giving in and returning to UFC. According to Couture, “At the end of the day, it still boils down to the same issues. This company has been signing fighters to coercive and literally awful contracts for years. It’s been one of the things that I’ve fought with them over since day one, since they bought the company, over ancillary rights, over right to match and retirement clauses, and having a little bit of leverage as their heavyweight champion when they bought the company, we fought over all these things. It’s one of the reasons I’m persona non grata with the company now.”

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