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Current UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra says he would be willing to rematch Georges St. Pierre in Canada and should ready to fight this April.

In an interview with the Canadian Press, Serra says he is still rehabbing from his back injury and hasn’t started full-time training again, but says returning in April isn’t out of the question.

When asked about St. Pierre and Matt Hughes fighting for an interim welterweight title at UFC 79, Serra responded:

“I always try to find the positive in things but people around me were upset, more so than me,” Serra said of the UFC’s decision to put part of his title on the line while he was sidelined.

“I’ve got to be realistic. I don’t know what they’re going to do,” Serra said. “I feel like I’m friendly with everybody but business is business and who knows? I know they like Georges, it’s not that they don’t like me but I don’t know. He might be more of a better poster boy. Who knows?”

“Man, what am I going to do?” he said. “I mean I’m the one who got injured. It’s really kind of ridiculous that they did the thing with the belts. But whatever. . . . It is what it is, dude. I roll with that stuff and I try not to take it too personal. I just do my thing.”

The rest of the article is a very good read so I encourage you to check it out.

An interesting note unrelated to Serra and GSP comes at the end of the article:

Randy Couture is opening an Extreme Couture gym in Canada, the first of four such gyms planned north of the border. The gym will be located on Kipling Avenue north of the Queensway in Etobicoke. Instructors include Brent Beauparlant, Chris Horodecki, Mark Hominick and Jeff Joslin.