Carlos Condit has been shunned as if he already lost his future fight at UFC 154 to current welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, and rumors for the super fight between GSP and Anderson Silva are already surfacing.
It’s close enough to reality that Dana White has stated a catch-weight and a venue (105,000-seat Cowboys Stadium) for the potential super fight. “I think we’re pretty close,” White said Tuesday on FUEL TV’s “UFC Tonight.”
“If Georges St-Pierre beats Condit, that could be the next fight,” said Dana. “These guys want to fight each other now. If you’re a fighter and you’ve dominated as long as Anderson has, and you’ve been great as long as Georges has, you finally want to say, ‘I want to test myself. I think I can beat this guy.’”
St-Pierre vs. Silva has great chances for breaking PPV records and a staduim sellout. While St-Pierre previously said such a fight would require him to move up to the middleweight division permanently, Silva has hinted at the possibility of moving down to welterweight. White believes meeting on middle ground would benefit both fighters.
Watch the highlights from the video below as Anderson Silva and GSP dismantle one opponent after another.
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“They’ll probably do the fight at 180 (pounds),” he said. “At one point, it sounded like Anderson wanted to go to 170. He wanted to take Georges’ welterweight title. Then it was 180, the catch weight, because Georges doesn’t want to go to ’85.
Georges said, ‘If I have to make a move to go to ’85, I’d have to stay at ’85.’ So we figured a 180-pound catch weight makes sense. “If that fight happens, it will probably happen at Dallas’ Texas Stadium.”