No Serious Challengers in the UFC for Georges St. Pierre

It looks like Georges St. Pierre's only real welterweight challengers are in Strikeforce. Namely, Nick Diaz or Jake Shields. GSP has already beaten Thiago Alves and Jon Fitch who are the two top guys behind him. Anderson Silva is the only fight of interest at middleweight but St. Pierre has already indicated that Silva may be too big for him. Besides, Silva is talking about fighting at heavyweight let alone challenging a welterweight.

Dana White may be able to sign Jake Shields whose last fight on his Strikeforce contract is coming up this year against Dan Henderson. Assuming Henderson wins, Strikeforce may sign back Shields to move him to welterweight for a challenge against Nick Diaz. If Shields wins Strikeforce wouldn't want to lose their current middleweight champion and would fight to sign him back. Either way, the UFC would want to get Shields to move him to welterweight and challenge GSP. Shields himself wants to be a welterweight.

The growth and phenomenal talent in Strikeforce is going to become a major thorn in Dana White's side. Strikeforce has top three caliber guys fighting at lightweight (Gilbert Melendez / Shinya Aoki), welterweight (Shields / Diaz), middleweight (Henderson), light heavyweight (Gegard Mousasi) and heavyweight (Fedor Emelianenko). In some cases, this is creating a major void in MMA. St. Pierre is one example while Fedor at heavyweight is another.