Rockhold: Who knows if GSP makes the fight vs. Bisping
Luke Rockhold: “At this stage of the game and all of the things he’s been through you can’t expect that he’s going to show up to that date.”
UFC welterweight G.O.A.T. Georges St-Pierre has not fought since 2013. He is scheduled to fight UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping at UFC 217 on November 4, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. However, during a recent appearance on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, former middleweight champion Luke Rockhold said he isn’t certain GSP will make it to the Octagon.
It obviously doesn’t sit well,” said Rockhold, who wanted to see the #1 contender at 185. “We will see what happens. Nothing is official until it’s official, he said during a recent appearance on The MMA Hour. Who knows at this point. Georges has been out a long time, and I can only control what’s in front of me which is September 16, I am going to go do my job and put myself in line.
There will be a fight in November, but we just don’t know who. You never know if it’s Georges. Who knows if Georges is going to make a fight. At this stage of the game and all of the things he’s been through you can’t expect that he’s going to show up to that date.”
His body might fail, his mind might fail. There are a lot of things in question with Georges.
Rockhold, who himself has not fought for over a year, fights David Branch in the main event of UFC Fight Night 116 on September 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Transcription via Adam Guillen Jr. for MMA Mania.
