Serra says he'll be ready for St. Pierre in April

UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra indicated in a recent interview with the Canadian Press that he believes he'll be ready for a possible unification match with UFC interim welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre in April:

The 33-year-old from Long Island, N.Y., has yet to resume full training from the two herniated discs in his lower back that forced him out of the recent UFC 79 grudge match against Matt Hughes in Las Vegas. But he says April sounds doable, even if it means venturing into hostile territory north of the border.

"I'm definitely up for that," he told The Canadian Press in an interview.

It's believed that the match between Serra and St. Pierre will take place in April in St. Pierre's hometown of Montreal. 

Serra, who was forced to pull out of a scheduled welterweight title defense vs. Matt Hughes at UFC 79 after suffering two bulging discs in his back while training, expressed some unhappiness with the current state of the UFC's welterweight title situation:

"Man, what am I going to do?" he said. "I mean I'm the one who got injured. It's really kind of ridiculous that they did the thing with the belts. But whatever. . . . It is what it is, dude. I roll with that stuff and I try not to take it too personal. I just do my thing."

The precise nature of Serra's current health condition is uncertain but it has been rumored in recent weeks that his back injury has made significant progress.

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Sam Caplan

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