GSP: I met with Dana, think my next fight is vs. Bisping
GSP: “So big risk, big reward and fighting Michael Bisping, that’s what that gives me.”
UFC welterweight G.O.A.T. Georges St-Pierre spoke recently with Canada’s TSN about his return fight, after taking a break from the Octagon since 2013. GSP was scheduled to challenge UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping for the middleweight belt, but a lingering eye issue kept pushing that out to the point that UFC president Dana White canceled it. Instead, White said, Bisping would fight the winner of the interim title fight between Yoel Romero and Robert Whittaker, and GSP would fight the top welterweight.
However, St-Pierre aims for all-time greatness, and winning the welterweight title again is something he has done before, more than once, and thus does little to elevate him further. So he still wants the Bisping fight, and he says he believes he has it.
It was changing but I talked to Dana a few days ago and he wrote me at the end,” said St-Pierre, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. “I tried to convince him that it was a good thing that if I come back, it needs to be a situation – I [have] a lot to risk and I need to have something that I can gain from it. So big risk, big reward and fighting Michael Bisping, that’s what that gives me. He’s the one that has the most wins in the UFC history. He just beat my record by one but if I beat him, I will beat him. I know Michael will retire, I think, if he ever loses [again]. . .
I talked to Dana and at the end of the conversation he said, ‘Look we’ll figure it out. We’ll see what happens.’ So hopefully it will happen.
The UFC may be planning a mega card in New York on November. GSP would like a fight with Bisping then, and have the winner of Romero and Whittaker wait a little longer for a unification fight.
That would be great,” he said. “That would be a historical moment. I want to make it as big as possible for UFC, for the fans, for everybody. I think it would be the fight everybody would want to see.
I’m positive [it will happen]. I think it will happen. I think it will,” said GSP. “After the conversation I had with him, because the problem I have with Dana is my mistake. We talked through reporters. There’s declaration and stuff so I think it’s good that we talk to each other and can see where are minds are and work together for the benefit of UFC, of me, for the fans, and make everybody happy.