Georges St-Pierre erövrade mellanviktsbältet under UFC 217 när han besegrade Michael Bisping genom rear-naked choke i den tredje ronden. St-Pierre är dock den tidigare welterviktsmästaren och ett steg ned till sin tidigare viktklass är inte omöjlig. Men någon som inte vill se det eller ens höra St-Pierre yttra dem orden, det är Dana White, VD för UFC. Genom MMAFighting sade han följande.
I don’t want to hear that. That’s not what I want to hear. I want to hear he’s going to defend his 185-pound title. That’s the agreement we made. That’s the deal we made when we made the deal. I’m going to be super pissed [if he asked to go down], and I don’t know where we go from there. Go to 170 — who’s better to fight at 170? You’ve got [Tyron] Woodley, you’ve got ‘Wonderboy,’ [and then at 185] you’ve got [Yoel] Romero, and then you’ve got Luke Rockhold. Fucking monsters. They’re all monsters. There’s no fight that looks like, ‘Oh, maybe this is the fight for me to take.’ You looked at Bisping like he was a tune-up. You got your tune-up. There’s nothing but fucking animals at ’85 and ’70.
Rockhold is massive. He’s massive when he cuts weight. There’s no good options. To sit there and try to handpick people, or where you want to go and everything else, you can’t in this fucking sport. They’re all nasty. You’re a fighter. Get in there and see who you can fucking beat. You wanted to fucking come back. Welcome back, it’s ugly.
I said [to St-Pierre], ‘I’ll tell you what: You want to come in and take this shot against Bisping, I’m cool with that, but you’ve got to defend the title. You can’t drop the title after the fight and then go somewhere else. It’s just, my thing is, to be the man, you’ve got to beat the man. And when the man just goes away.. listen, if a guy is on a run and undefeated then wants to retire, that’s one thing. The guy retires the belt, that’s another thing. ‘Well, I’m going to drop this one and jump to 170 now,’ I don’t like it.
St-Pierre gick sin senaste match innan Bisping för fyra år sedan. Han ställdes mot Johny Hendricks och vann genom ett delat domslut. Efter matchen valde kanadensaren att lämna MMA-scenen. Vinsten cementerade även St-Pierres nionde titelförsvar i welterviktsdivisionen.
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