Filed under: News , UFC (This story was originally published on usatoday.com .) LOS ANGELES – Freddie Roach steps into an unfamiliar field of combat this weekend, when the Hall of Fame boxing coach emerges as a fascinating subplot behind one of the UFC’s most intriguing bouts of the year. Roach has had a key involvement in the preparations of Georges St-Pierre (25-2 MMA, 19-2 UFC), the returning UFC superstar, for his fight against reigning middleweight champion Michael Bisping (30-7 MMA, 20-7 UFC) at UFC 217. St-Pierre hopes that Roach’s trademark pugilistic coaching abilities, which worked on Manny Pacquiao with great success, can transfer to the octagon. “Having him this whole camp is like a fighter’s fantasy,” St-Pierre said, ahead of Saturday’s pay-per-view main event at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
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Georges St-Pierre: Training with Freddie Roach ‘a fighter’s fantasy’ ahead of UFC 217 – MMA Junkie