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Dana White säger att Robert Whittaker står på tur för GSP

Dana White presskonferens

Den tidigare welterviktskungen, Georges St-Pierre, kom tillbaka efter ett fyra år långt uppehåll och vann mellanviktstiteln inatt över Michael Bisping. St-Pierre stoppade Bisping i den tredje ronden genom ett ”rear-naked choke”.

Vad som väntar St-Pierre härnäst verkar vara Robert Whittaker, som är interimmästare i mellanvikten. Dana White vill att St-Pierre skall möta Whittaker härnäst, men White har inget fastställt datum för detta möte än (via presskonferens som efterföljde UFC 217):

It’s going to be Whittaker, White told reporters at the post-fight conference. I don’t even know what’s going on with GSP. He was transported to the hospital, so he’s got to get stitches on his nose. If he doesn’t take Bisping down and keeps this fight standing, he comes out of that fight with almost no damage. Bisping did some serious work from his back and split his nose open and had him bleeding all over his face. He (St-Pierre) took some big shots from the top position and if he didn’t do that he probably would’ve come out unscratched. So yeah, he’s got to go to the hospital right now. We’ll see how he is and what the status is with him.

St-Pierre blev historisk genom att han nu har varit mästare i två viklklasser, dessutom var han den andre mannen att någonsin submitta Bisping. White sa att han tyckte att GSP stod för en av de bästa återkomsterna genom tiderna:

No, (I haven’t seen anything like it). Even Ali didn’t look the same after a three-year layoff, you know. He was still a great fighter, but he didn’t look the same as he did before the layoff and very few people have come back from long layoffs. Not only come back and win in their own division, but move up to 185 pounds and fight in that division, it’s tough to do.”

Its great to have GSP back. He came after a four-year layoff and fought a great fight tonight. People think Bisping is easy, but show me one easy fight Bisping has been in where you just go in there and walk over Bisping, you don’t do it. And GSP looked real good tonight.

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