Reigning UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping is set to clash with former welterweight king Georges St. Pierre this November at UFC 217, and he’s not letting up on him one bit with the trash talk. Bisping has been going at St. Pierre from the very moment the fight was announced and genuinely seems insulted that GSP thinks he can come back after years away and dethrone him.
The champ talked to “The MMA Hour” last Monday and said when the moment of truth finally comes, GSP will know he made a mistake by returning.
“But in truth, he’s doing this because he thinks he can beat me. We trained together a long, long time ago and he out-wrestled me then. I didn’t know a double-leg from a Big Mac. So he still thinks he can out-wrestle me down and beat me. He didn’t want to fight Anderson Silva when he was the champion. He didn’t want to fight Luke Rockhold when he was the champion. So he’s looking at me as easy pickings. That’s why he’s focused on fighting me so much. And for all this talk, I say Georges is a fraud. And Canada, who looks at him as their champion — Canada’s champion is a f**king fraud.”
“I’m going to remind him why he retired,” Bisping stated. “Johny Hendricks beat him so bad, he thought he was f**king abducted by aliens. That’s why Georges retired. You know this. Everybody knows this. And he’s going to walk in there and come find out. It’s easy, me now talking to you, and it’s easy for Georges, talking to you, doing TV, doing the Countdown, doing all of this. But you can’t lie to yourself.
“And the problem is, you can lie to yourself at this point, but the closer the fight gets, that’s when it keeps you up at night, and then when he’s in the locker room and it’s just before he goes out, there’s 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden, and he’s going to think, ‘Sh*t. Sh*t. I know why I retired. It’s because of this feeling right here, this feeling of doubt, the scared-ness that we all get, the fright.’ And he’s going to walk out there and then the lights are going to be on him, he hasn’t fought in four years, he’s going to think, ‘Sh*t, what the f*ck am I doing here? Why did I say yes to this again?’ Because he doesn’t need the money.
“He’s coming up a weight class against bigger guys — a bigger guy who’s used to fighting bigger guys, who’s used to fighting guys who can hit way harder than Georges can hit me. He can’t hurt me with anything. And then when I jab him in the face and I punch him again, he’s suddenly going to realize, ‘Sh*t, I made a mistake here. I shouldn’t have done this. I should’ve backed out.’ He should’ve never came back.”
