GSP: Bisping has a mental complex, was an embarrassment

UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping and welterweight G.O.A.T. Georges St-Pierre had their first press conference on Friday. The Count came off as an Englishman having a pretty good time in Vegas. He wandered into the event late, grabbed his mic, and started swearing.

During a recent appearance on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, GSP said he was not impressed.

He caught me off-guard a little bit,” said St-Pierre, as transcribed by Shaun Al-Shatti for MMA Fighting. “I didn’t see him coming. I thought he would be absent from that press conference when it first started and he wasn’t there. And he started yelling at me. You know, there are a lot of guys who are very good trash talkers in this game. Conor McGregor is one, Chael Sonnen is one, he’s an expert. And I always feel like I cannot get into a war of words with these guys, because first, English is not my first language, and I’m just not good at trash talking. I do my talking in the fight. I’m not a good talker, I’m a good fighter.

But what I can say is this: I do not believe Michael Bisping is a good trash talker. I believe the best thing he did for me was to talk, because he embarrassed himself every time he opened his mouth. So he did the job for me. I didn’t even have to say anything.

Some stupid stuff, nonsense, like ‘you’re small, I’m going to beat you. And I said something like, ‘yeah, you might be tall, but you’re going to fall from high.’ B.S. stuff. I’m just not good at talking. I pick my fights carefully because it’s not my thing, it’s not my first language, and if I get into a war of words, it’s not my thing. But he’s not a good trash talker. He’s terrible at it. The more he talks, the more he embarrasses himself and the more he looks bad.

I think he has a complex, because people doubted him for all his life. I think he has a mental complex. That’s why he’s thinking like that. But anyway, it doesn’t matter, because when I’m going to fight him, he’s going to see the difference in levels between he and I. You’re going to see the difference.

GSP also expressed appreciation for Bisping, most notably his stand against Performance Enhancing Drugs.

It was very inspirational for me, said St-Pierre. Michael Bisping has been very outspoken [against] performing enhancing drugs, like I am. Most of his losses come from guys who have been taking performance enhancing drugs. And also, he’s the kind of fighter, he’s very inspiring because he’s a very hard worker. He’s not the kind of fighter who only relies on his natural gifts or his natural talents and his elegance. Because those fighters, sometimes when they crack, they crack and never come back the same. Michael has been brought down before in the past, many times, and every time he stood up and came back stronger every time.

So, these kinds of fighters are the worst nightmare guys that you can fight. As inspiring as it is for me to fight him, and I’m glad because he’s going to make good money and I think Michael deserves, and I deserve it, I think it’s a very, very — it’s the most dangerous fight that I’ve taken in my entire career.

I don’t understand how come he’s such a very angry person. For a man who has the opportunity, and has everything he has in life, he should be happy. And he should enjoy it, the time [while it] lasts, because when I’m going to step in the cage with him, he’s going to lose everything, unfortunately for him.

That fight is likely to take place sometime this Summer. Expect a landfill worth of trash talk before then.