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Matt Brown Offers to be Opponent for GSP's Return to the UFC

Matt Brown (L) in his epic match with Robbie Lawler (R)

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Matt Brown makes a bid to be former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre's (GSP) return fight, if he comes back to the octagon in 2015.

Fresh off an amazing match with top welterweight Robbie Lawler, Brown came away from the fight with a decision loss. However, the fight was an enthralling five-round war that left no man lesser in the UFC rankings, nor in the fan's eyes.

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Most of the top ranked welterweights are currently engaged. Lawler will be facing current champion Johny Hendricks in a rematch for the title, while Rory McDonald - GSP's teammate at the TriStar gym in Canada - waits in the wings for the winner of that match.

This would leave GSP without a fighter if he decides to return next year.

Brown has gladly accepted that challenged and has voiced his eagerness for the match.

"That's a huge, huge fight. I'd love to have that fight. I always thought I matched up well with him," Brown said on The Great MMA Debate podcast.

He goes on to say that he thinks he is in the right position for it, seeing as GSP won't get an immediate title shot, and Brown is looking to get into the title picture himself.

While there is still no solid word about GSP's return, all signs seem to point to it.

UFC President Dana White and Zuffa CEO Lorenzo Fertitta recently visited GSP and found out that he has been medically cleared by his doctors to train after getting his ACL surgery.

GSP went back to training at his gym and, for all the time that he was out, said that the first day was back was hell for him.

White and Fertitta were optimistic about the return, saying that GSP was in a good place mentally. However, they were not putting a definite date on the return yet and would not pressure him on it.

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