Every few weeks, Georges St-Pierre takes to social media and shares video of himself training.
Inevitably, many of his millions of followers (4.3 million on Facebook, 1.7 million on Twitter, and another 1.3 million on Instagram) respond with positive messages, while many others ask the question that MMA fans around the world want to know the answer to.
"When are you fighting again?"
It's a question that only becomes more relevant every time the man known simply as "GSP" posts another training video, and it was no different this week, in the days leading to UFC 214, when the 36-year-old shared footage of himself doing gymnastics work.
After all those years working with coach Pat Beauchamp, I truly admire his patience with me!!! pic.twitter.com/YZccgtVcuv
— Georges St-Pierre (@GeorgesStPierre) July 24, 2017
Once the face of UFC, St-Pierre has laid low in MMA circles since his last fight, a controversial decision over Johny Hendricks way back in November 2013. He later vacated the UFC welterweight title.
Since that night nearly four years ago, St-Pierre has talked openly about returning to the octagon, even re-signing with the UFC in anticipation of a comeback. However, a planned fight against Michael Bisping has been canceled indefinitely, and the world continues to wait for one of the most popular combat athletes of his generation to get back to doing what he does best.
For his part, St-Pierre said — again on social media — that he had plans to take on Bisping sometime in the fall of this year.
"Mr. Bisping, I cleared my entire schedule to get ready for training camp after this summer," St-Pierre said in a video posted on his Instagram in May. "So I can fight you any time after October. Pick the date. Let's get it on."
While that's all well and good, we're now nearly into August and we've yet to definitively hear if this fight will happen. St-Pierre ostensibly planned to use the summer to put on pounds to move up to Bisping's weight class, and hopefully the Canadian will let the world know when that happens.
Even if St-Pierre does meet the requirements to fight as a middleweight, UFC president Dana White has already moved on from the planned GSP/Bisping bout.
"The Georges St-Pierre ship has sailed. That fight [with Bisping] is not happening," White said earlier this month, having seemingly run out of patience waiting for St-Pierre to declare himself ready.
In the meantime, the popular fighter has confirmed that he will return at an upcoming event — GSP will be in attendance at September's UFC 215 in Edmonton in a promotional capacity. Will that be the day when the man who once took on Captain America in a movie finally announces when he will return to the ring?
We can only wait and see.