Welterweight G.O.A.T. Georges St-Pierre took off four years and returned to defeat then UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping. GSP then gave up the belt, citing Colitis, which he associated with putting on weight for the step up. On his latest Believe You Me podcast, ‘The Count’ reacted.
He’s a prick, said Bisping, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. He’s a prick, god bless him.
I’m gonna be brutally honest here, it’s a double-edged sword. It’s a good thing and a bad thing. By the way, Dana White threw me under the bus when he first found out. He wasn’t happy with Georges and he said, ‘Yeah, well he cherry-picked Bisping.’ That doesn’t do me any favors! He didn’t cherry-pick me, but I did say that. I said Georges wanted to fight me because he thought I was an easy fight and this and that, and he got the win, and then he vacated the belt. Now he vacated the belt because apparently he had to go to the hospital after our fight and he thought he was gonna be paralyzed and he had a bad neck and all this type of stuff. I don’t know. He just doesn’t fancy doing it again.
In one respect, it’s good for me because – as an MMA fighter, as a boxer, whatever it is – if somebody beats you, you never want them to lose again because if they get beat, then the person that beat them, it has a negative impact on you. Like, ‘Oh, they could have beaten me as well.’ So he’s never going to fight at 185 again, that’s good. I’m the only person at 185 he ever beat, nobody at 185 is ever gonna beat him. So cheers Georges, thanks for that. But at the same time, it looks like a bit of a b**** move, you know what I mean? So there’s pluses and negatives.
Remember he said in the press conferences, he said if he lost he was never gonna try again and he was gonna retire. I don’t know anything about Georges’ bank account but I’m assuming it’s pretty swollen, it’s got plenty of money in there. So he came back, he got another belt, made history, made a ton of money, made more than me, the prick, and good for him. It’s actually really smart. Why should he carry on fighting? Legacy is more important and he’s got a great legacy there. So from a business standpoint, it’s actually a really smart move. From the UFC’s perspective, of course it’s frustrating. It’s annoying. Opens the doors for Whittaker versus Rockhold but it’s annoying because remember, GSP did that after the Johny Hendricks fight. He didn’t defend the belt, walked away, Dana was pissed then, and now he’s doing the same thing now.
With GSP’s exit, the UFC moved interim middleweight champ to undisputed. Bisping took a short notice fight with Kelvin Gastelum and lost. Now Luke Rockhold gets the next title shot. Despite no love lost between Rockhold and Bisping, The Count is cool with it all.
GSP’s retired, I’m out the picture,” he said. “Let them two fight for it, whoever wins, they become the champion and good for them.
Bisping says he will fight one more time, ideally at UFC Fight Night 127 on March 17, 2018, at The O2 Arena in London, England. Unlike too many fighters, Bisping has a number of options post fighting, including movies and televusion and investments.
