UFC: Georges St-Pierre out Until January or February

UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre will be out of action until at least January after having suffered a hamstring injury during his training camp for his title fight against Carlos Condit.

St-Pierre, 22-2 in his mixed martial arts career, was slated to headline the UFC 137 main event against Condit, however suffered an hamstring injury on Saturday, and furthered the injury a few days later.

St-Pierre initially made the decision to keep training and go ahead with his title defense against Condit, however after the injury got worse on Tuesday, he made the final decision with his doctors and manager to postpone the fight.

"(Initially), I knew (the injury) was bad but I thought I had the chance to be 100 percent the night of the fight if I trained light and conserved myself, but the reality was I was not able to recover fast enough," St-Pierre said. "I want to fight him when I'm at my best."

The man dubbed "Rush" now has his sights set on a early 2012 return, possibly on one of the UFC's big main cards, such as Super Bowl weekend. "I would say maybe end of January, possibly the beginning of February (for my return)…Super Bowl, around this time."

St-Pierre is keen on having a good recovery, and getting back to 100 percent before stepping foot back into the Octagon. "The recovery I want to do it well, I don't want to do it too fast. Because now I had an injury and I tried to train on it and maybe made it a little bit worse. I need a good four weeks to do my physio and do it right."