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GSP: 'I'm not sure, I don't know right now if I wanna come back'

Georges St-Pierre never officially retired from mixed martial arts, but he's still unsure if he'll ever come back.

"There is different reasons of why I took a break," St-Pierre told GnP TV, according to BloodyElbow.com's Mark Bergmann. "What I can say is, I'm not sure, I don't know right now if I wanna come back or not. I'm not sure when, if I do. So it's still the same answer as before."

As one of the greatest fighters to ever slip on a pair of 4-ounce gloves, St-Pierre continuously faced a murderer's row of contenders in the shark tank known as the UFC's welterweight division, and admits the pressures of wearing the crown had grown to be too much. It just wasn't fun anymore.

"I became world champion by training for fun," St-Pierre said. "And then the fun became business, and business became stressful, and then you lost fun. I didn't have fun at the end, I did it because I had to, not because I wanted to. I should have actually stopped maybe one fight before, or two fights before, but I couldn't. It was always constantly another guy challenging me. Carrying all this weight on my shoulders, I felt like I needed to do it, instead of wanting to do it."

Another thing St-Pierre is itching to do is have a family, though he did admit that wasn't his motivation for walking away from the sport.

"Like every human being, I wish one day I'll meet someone and spend the rest of my life with, with a great family and stuff," St-Pierre said. "That's a dream of pretty much everybody,"

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