UFC President Dana White hosted a press conference just before the “UFC 209” weigh-ins ceremony to promote the upcoming middleweight championship fight between Michael Bisping and Georges St-Pierre. The press conference started without the champion there as he had been late, but when he walked onto the stage he made his presence felt. He dished out a rant of profanity, immediately telling St-Pierre to shut up while cutting him off.
St-Pierre just sat back and smiled while Bisping went off on the microphone. The former welterweight champion told MMA Hour that he believed Bisping was digging himself in a hole, embarrassing himself with all the trash talk he was dishing out. St-Pierre said:
“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.”
