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Now St-Pierre has finally revealed the reason for his long delay to return to the UFC after signing with the promotion several months ago.
“Trust me, I’m not the kind of guy who thinks, ‘Hey, I’m going to make everybody wait for me. I don’t want to fight during the summer, I want to take my time. That’s not the reason. If it were up to me, I would come back. The reason is I had a problem with my eye. I had an injury,” St-Pierre said at the C2 conference in Montreal this week as first reported by MMAFighting.
“My vision has not been back yet. It will be back. It’s something very minor. The doctor insisted for me that I don’t spar until September.”
Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images
Here’s where things get interesting.
St-Pierre says the UFC knew about his eye injury when the press conference was announced in March yet the promotion insisted on pushing for the fight in July despite his injury pushing his return back until after the summer.
“UFC knew. Everyone knew. The people concerned knew that that was the case, but they still tried to put pressure on me to fight in July,” St-Pierre explained. “That’s the reason why I’m coming out public today about the reason why I’m not fighting this summer.”
http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/...elay-in-his-return-to-the-ufc-052617?amp=true
“Trust me, I’m not the kind of guy who thinks, ‘Hey, I’m going to make everybody wait for me. I don’t want to fight during the summer, I want to take my time. That’s not the reason. If it were up to me, I would come back. The reason is I had a problem with my eye. I had an injury,” St-Pierre said at the C2 conference in Montreal this week as first reported by MMAFighting.
“My vision has not been back yet. It will be back. It’s something very minor. The doctor insisted for me that I don’t spar until September.”
Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images
Here’s where things get interesting.
St-Pierre says the UFC knew about his eye injury when the press conference was announced in March yet the promotion insisted on pushing for the fight in July despite his injury pushing his return back until after the summer.
“UFC knew. Everyone knew. The people concerned knew that that was the case, but they still tried to put pressure on me to fight in July,” St-Pierre explained. “That’s the reason why I’m coming out public today about the reason why I’m not fighting this summer.”
http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/...elay-in-his-return-to-the-ufc-052617?amp=true