{"id":226583,"date":"2017-03-07T08:46:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=226583"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:05:44","slug":"nick-diaz-says-offered-fight-georges-st-pierre-michael-bisping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nick-diaz\/nick-diaz-says-offered-fight-georges-st-pierre-michael-bisping\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Diaz says he offered to fight Michael Bisping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of contract negotiations, former UFC welterweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a> is finally poised for a comeback. He will not, however, be returning to the welterweight division he once ruled so dominantly. Instead, he will challenge Michael Bisping for the UFC middleweight title at a to-be-determined date and location, probably sometime in the second half of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Given the way that St-Pierre&#8217;s title shot deprives legitimate middleweight title contenders like <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/yoel-romero\/yoel-romero-reacts-to-michael-bisping-vs-georges-st-pierre-booking\/\">Yoel Romero<\/a> and Ronaldo &#8220;Jacare&#8221; Souza of the shots they&#8217;ve earned, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/mma-community-reacts-to-georges-st-pierre-vs-michael-bisping-booking\/\">this booking was an immediately controversial one<\/a>. Yet Georges St-Pierre is one of the biggest stars in MMA history, so it&#8217;s understandable why the UFC gave him the fight he asked for.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, however, St-Pierre is not the only former welterweight who offered to fight Bisping. In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2017\/03\/07\/nick-diaz-georges-st-pierre-michael-bisping\/\">TMZ Sports<\/a>, former Strikeforce welterweight champ Nick Diaz admitted that he was chasing his own fight with Bisping, though this contest failed to materialize.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You wanna know the truth?&#8221; Diaz said. &#8220;I talked to Michael Bisping already, in New York, about doing this fight. There&#8217;s more money for him if he takes the fight with me. We&#8217;re talking about a catchweight fight, and he&#8217;s talking about it as if it&#8217;s going to be hard to make the weight. I mean, come on. It&#8217;d be a non-title fight, so after I whoop his ass, he still keeps the belt. So that&#8217;s more money \u2013 then you go fight GSP! Same with Georges. I&#8217;m just doing more numbers than he is, so you&#8217;ll just make more money fighting me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would you have preferred a Michael Bisping vs. Nick Diaz fight over a Michael Bisping vs. Georges St-Pierre fight? Or, do you think the shot should have gone to Yoel Romero or Jacare? Sound off in the comments, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/7\/2017.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of contract negotiations, former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre is finally poised for a comeback. He will not, however, be returning to the welterweight division he once ruled so dominantly. 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