Georges St-Pierre: ‘I Feel Very Sad For Anderson Silva’

Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC, great Georges St-Pierre offered his two cents on the performance enhancing drug controversy with colleague Anderson Silva which hogging the headlines of the mixed martial arts world. The proficient wrestler said that he “feels very sad for Silva” and is calling for stringent measures to curb the PED problem of the sport.

The Canadian welterweight legend was one of the more bankable stars in the UFC. After he announced his sabbatical in August of 2014, St-Pierre revealed that he will not return to the Octagon unless Dana White and company clean up the sport, a position he reiterates with the latest PED scandal involving no less than “The Spider” Silva.

"I’m not a rat and I’ll never go public and name names to reporters. My only hope is that we deal with this [PED] problem, I hope if one thing comes out of this, it’s that testing will be done more stringently," GSP said in an interview with Canadian news outlet, Journal de Montreal (translated by Bloody Elbow).

Despite the recent turn of events with a high profile player like Silva being the latest name to be dragged with the PED scandal, St-Pierre is not too optimistic that the problem will go away quickly. The Quebec native added that a dedicated martial artist must respect the sport by acquiring skills naturally and not resort to artificial means to bulk up.

St-Pierre also slammed the timing of the release of the results given that the out of competition tests happened way back in Jan. 6 but were just made public after the fight has been completed. He added that the fight should never have been done in the first place because coming into a fight with PEDs is the biological weapon that any fighter would have over the other.

In light of Silva’s positive drug test result results and the recent the cocaine problem of light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, the UFC is scrambling for means to repair its tainted image. UFC President Dana White has been keen on luring back GSP into the Octagon, but until now those efforts have remained futile as one of the faces of the sport has quashed all rumours of his supposed comeback.

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