“I could fight again if I wanted to and I believe I could probably be one of the best, maybe the best. But I stopped because of the stress.”
Georges St-Pierre had always suffered with pre-fight nerves, but to what extent, we didn’t really know.
St-Pierre was forced to relinquish his UFC middleweight title after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2017 and, according to a recent interview with South China Morning Post, ‘Rush’ believes stress may have played a factor in his diagnosis.