UFC president confident in St-Pierre's return

UFC president Dana White says he's confident Georges St-Pierre will come back from knee reconstruction surgery.

The welterweight champion is expected to be out for 10 months as a result of the injury sustained in training.

"We're going to make sure that Georges gets the right surgery, with the right guy, the right rehabilitation," White said Thursday. "He's an athlete who's taken very good care of himself through his entire career and he's a guy who will put in the work and do the things that need to be done.

"I'm 100 per cent confident that Georges St-Pierre will rebound from this injury and come back."

But White acknowledged later that the UFC will feel the loss of its biggest pay-per-view star.

The injury also may mean that St. Pierre fights just once in 2011 and 2012.