Much of the talk about what should happen next with UFC interim welterweight champion Carlos Condit comes down to how much longer "real champion" Georges St. Pierre will be on the shelf after suffering a very serious knee injury. In a recent video put on the UFC's YouTube channel, St. Pierre says that he is currently ahead of schedule, he just needs to be careful to not re-injure himself over the coming weeks and months.
The video:
From the video:
I feel very good. I'm ahead of schedule. I feel sometimes I want to do a little bit more but even though I feel good my graft is not fused properly, 100-percent. I need to remain calm. The danger with a lot of athletes is to push through the pain and try to go to fast. If I do so, it might loosen up the graft and I might have to start the old process again and I don't want to do that.
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GSP laying the foundation for a "re-injury"
So he doesn’t have to fight Condit?
40 Cal. - February 18, 2012
Back under the bridge.
DankNabbot - February 18, 2012
Mobile rec. Somebody help me out here
Chris Hall - February 18, 2012 via Android app
GSP makes 2 to 3 $million per fight. He will have lost at least 5 $M by the time he fights again, do you really think he’s willing to lose that much money to avoid a guy who lost to Ellenberger and got dominated by Rory McDonald for 2/3 of the fight?
Kenya_MMA - February 18, 2012
to be fair, he hasn't lost any money.
you can’t lose what you never had. he has missed out on the opportunity to make money.
tha dude - February 18, 2012
Not to mention that Condit got taken down by Diaz, and the consensus seems to be that GSP is one of the best takedown artists around…
Bloody L - February 18, 2012
Don't do it GSP
Plenty of people say that they feel good and they’re ahead of schedule with injuries like these. Then they end up training and hurting it again.
discoandherpes - February 18, 2012
I remember in rolling in jiu jitsu, and my friend/sparring partner did a sweep that really messed up my right shoulder. I went to sparring class two days later, and my shoulder felt fine, but sparring with someone near the end of the session, I threw a punch, it got parried, and I injured the right shoulder pretty badly.
The point is that an injury can feel like it has been healed and that area can feel okay, but that doesn’t mean that area is actually fully healed. I can imagine that a knee injury is something that should be rehabbed with caution.
chrisbboy82 - February 19, 2012
Good news and he's saying the right things
I just hope he really is taking things slowly. We don’t want him to end up like Shogun.
KJ Gould - February 18, 2012
Famous last words?
Wasn’t that his original injury issue?
He rushed back to training from a previous minor injury and then he made himself worse?
jack knight starman - February 18, 2012 via mobile
IIRC
He got a “compensation injury”. He hurt one knee, went into training and then blew out the other knee by relying on it too much.
Bloody L - February 18, 2012
he hasn't got fat ?
so much inactivity, bed rest, and still his bf/muscle composition looks normal as if he has been active, a week after fight night rampage looks like a HW, what gives ?
carmine99 - February 18, 2012
Rampage Jackson has never struck one as the peak of a dedicated professional.
GSP tends to seem like one.
Could just be a factor.
Gugabe - February 18, 2012
He could still lift weights/do upper body stuff?
thirdparty - February 18, 2012
GSP is a seasoned nutritionist.
Everything related to his job, he studied. He’s not gonna start eating calories and fat when he can’t spend it.
Yan117 - February 18, 2012
wholed
“I might have to start the
oldwhole process again”TamF - February 18, 2012
I just hope he doesn't rush it.
heymanhowsitgoing - February 18, 2012 via mobile
Don't worry. GSP hasn't "rushed" anything since he rematched Serra :)
pud333 - February 18, 2012
Georges "Rush" St. Pierre
JayT86 - February 18, 2012
i know, low hanging fruit
heymanhowsitgoing - February 19, 2012
GSP vs Conduit is gonna be a dogfight.
Rob Young - February 18, 2012 via mobile
:D
AnotherBadPrediction - February 18, 2012
GSP vs. Conduit?
that sounds electric.
heymanhowsitgoing - February 19, 2012
It takes a year to recover 100% from ACL reconstruction. That’s what my surgeon said, anyway. After six months you’re 90%, but it really takes a year to be normal. I grant that GSP is rehabbing full time instead of dragging over to the PT office after work like I did, but he is nuts if takes a chance with it.
Finian1 - February 18, 2012
he sounds like he's playing it safe
this is… unexpected
Cunny - February 18, 2012
lame
jthin - February 18, 2012
very lame
benten20 - February 18, 2012
super lame
Cunny - February 19, 2012
Are we gonna have to hear this from George every month until NOV.
DAMN!!
AfroSamurai - February 18, 2012
People keep asking him.
What is he supposed to say?
Warbreezy - February 18, 2012
I had acl surgery
I couldn’t go in the water at the beach or do anything to risk loosening my graft. George would be FUCKED if he loosened his graft. It’s either get surgery again, or fight and lose because you didn’t take care of your knee right.
JayT86 - February 18, 2012
Maybe it just me
But I don’t feel like my 2012 will be negatively affected by not seeing GSP win another tepid 5 round decision. Please, by all means, take all the time you need Georges and then some.
Anton Chigurh - February 18, 2012
If GSP is healthy
Barring Condit landing three straight right hands to rock GSP like Matt Serra did, he is a bad style match up for GSP. If Diaz can get him down and take his back, I think GSP could probably take him down, pass, and ride out a decision.
discoandherpes - February 18, 2012
GSP will Fitch the hell out of Condit
Huggy Bear - February 19, 2012
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