One of the most controversial cards of the season so far, UFC 279 continues to be talked about. This time, it was Georges St-Pierre who echoed the event last Saturday (10). Specifically, the veteran gave his opinion on the failure of Khamzat Chimaev’s scale, which weighed almost 4 kg over the welterweight limit (77 kg). In the opinion of ‘GSP’, it is difficult to forgive a slippage of this magnitude.

Drawing on the experience of someone who has already won two Ultimate belts – welterweight and middleweight (84) – St-Pierre points out that a possible new imbroglio to make weight could disrupt Khamzat’s plans to fight for the title. However, from a sporting point of view, the Canadian considers that ‘Borz’ is worthy to face the heads of the category.

“He needs to gain weight. When you don’t make weight, it’s a big disrespect, not only to your opponent, but to the sport. We don’t know what happened, maybe be that there is a clinical reason or something, we don’t. I don’t know. But for sure if he doesn’t gain weight in the future, maybe it will prevent him to have a chance to win the title,” he said, before projecting the future of the Russian hopeful.

“Maybe they’ll even give him the chance to come back to 77kg if he wants to, but he can’t go over the limit. Not gaining weight is hard to forgive. As a fan, I would like see Kamaru Usman will get the rematch (in the next title fight), because if anyone deserves it, it’s him. Maybe Chimaev will get the chance to face the winner of this fight (with Leon Edwards)”, added GSP, in an interview with Channel ‘Le Schmo’.

With the trilogy between Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards headed towards welterweight, Chimaev admitted he has his attention on middleweight, specifically the winner of the fight between Israel Adesanya and Alex ‘Poatan’, who are fighting for the category title on November 12 in New York (USA). In his professional career, ‘Lobo’ remains undefeated with 12 cartel wins.