THE RUSH RETURNS

It's been a week since we found out Georges "Rush" St. Pierre has signed back with the UFC, and already we are wanting to know who does he fight first. Now there is speculation he will be fighting between 155-185. I know there are so many fighters right now like:

And to be honest...they is probably a long list of fighters who would love to be the first person to fight GSP: he has not fought since November 2013, and after a long layoff there has to be tons of ring rust); he has been in and out of Hollywood (filming Captain America: The Winter Soldier); he was having personal issues outside the UFC (baby mama drama); etc. You can see why so many people would love the chance to get at him. But let's be honest, would you want to fight GSP? He was a master of the game, he was able to breakdown your gameplan in the first few minutes of a fight and attack your strengths. Remember when he fought Thiago Alves, and everyone praised Thiago's wrestling...how did that turn out?

Remember when people were talking about GSP's inability to match-up with wrestlers, so GSP trained with the Canadian National Wrestling Team. Wrestlers on the team said he could compete on the international level and then he did this...

and this...

in case you did not know the top picture if Carlos Condit (regarded for his wrestling ability) and Matt Hughes (the legend known for his wrestling ability) both were out matched by GSP and beaten.

Or how about people who said GSP's ability to strike with great strikers was never going to be elite, so he hired Freddy Roach (the legendary boxing training, who trained Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya, among a slew of other great boxers) (Freddy, n.d.), then other fighters ended up like this:

So fighters ended up like this:

And this:

Or maybe that time when people would talk about how the spinning heel kick would be the new move people needed to add, so GSP went to Joe Rogan and trained with him...then we saw him utilize this kick on several occasions:

And:

We already know that GSP had a deadly kick game and was able to finish off fights with it, just ask Matt Hughes how that went:

But what makes this so interesting, the Return of GSP is the list of names being dropped: Anderson Silva, Conner McGregor, Nick Diaz, Nate Diaz, Jose Aldo, Max Halloway, etc. A long line of people who want a piece of GSP. Now personally I think GSP needs a warm-up fight to shake off all the cobwebs, others think he needs to be put in right away against the sharks of the tanks. I say give him Dan Hardy, the have fought before and both are coming back from long layoffs. Both will need a tune-up fight and they are still big names. After that, it is whoever GSP wants to fight. Tyron Woodley, Stephen Thompson, Jose Aldo, McGregor, or even Michael Bisping.

The return of GSP is much needed even with all the UFC "stars" falling as they have: Rousey, McGregor, Jon "Bones" Jones, Jose Aldo, etc. So let's see who the UFC puts GSP up against first, this will be fun to watch and it will be amazing if GSP can be the "Rush" he use to be or if he is even better.

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