Shields keen on GSP fight

Strikeforce middleweight champion Jake Shields has admitted he is keen on a fight with UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre ‘sometime soon’.

Shields has come to the end of his contract with Strikeforce and could join the UFC.

“I’m a free agent basically. My agent has told me I’m a free agent now. There was one fight left on my contract, but the way it was written up [Strikeforce] was supposed to notify me of who my next opponent was by April 10, and that’s past so I’m a free agent. There’s a little bit of time left for talks and stuff, so I’m not 100% a free agent yet, I have another month or so before that passes,” he told Five Knuckles.

When asked if Strikeforce can provide him with the fights he wants, he said: “It’s tough for them to do that. It’s tough, and that will be one of the factors [in negotiations], but I don’t want to jump to any conclusions yet. We need to sit down and see what Strikeforce has to offer and what they want to do. Obviously GSP and (Anderson) Silva are guys that I want to fight, but I’m not going to jump to any conclusions at this point.”

He added on a possible fight with Georges St. Pierre: “I think it’s a great fight and it has me really excited. I’m hoping that’s a fight will come together sometime soon. I think we’re both tremendous wrestlers… I think my submission grappling is a little better, his stand-up game is a little better.”