Canada’s Georges St-Pierre to announce retirement from MMA

Legendary Canadian mixed martial artist Georges St-Pierre will reportedly announce his retirement tomorrow.

A press conference in his hometown of Montreal is scheduled for Thursday, where the 37-year-old is expected to make the announcement.

Canadian mixed martial arts icon Georges St-Pierre is reportedly getting set to call it career.https://t.co/yATtJnw1NJ

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) February 20, 2019

St-Pierre is one of the most decorated UFC champions of all time, a three-time welterweight champion with a career record of 26-2, he also holds the third-longest individual UFC title reign of 2,064 days.

Georges St-Pierre will officially announce his retirement from MMA tomorrow morning at a press conference in Montreal, multiple sources told ESPN. GSP had hoped to secure a super-fight w/ Khabib. Once that didn’t materialize, he decided it was time to walk away. More shortly.

— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) February 20, 2019

Reports indicate that GSP was in talks to fight unbeaten UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, who recently defeated Conor McGregor, however the fight never materialized.

In 2013, St-Pierre retired for the first time before returning to the octagon to win the middleweight championship at UFC 217.