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For a time, it looked as though UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping would next defend his title against former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. Yet when St-Pierre revealed he wouldn’t be able to fight until the fall, and Bisping announced that he was recovering from knee surgery, this much-discussed fight was pushed to the back burner.<\/p>\n

Since then, UFC President Dana White has suggested that, if St-Pierre does return, it will not be to the middleweight division as originally planned, but instead to the welterweight division while he once ruled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of his podcast Believe You Me<\/em><\/a>, Bisping weighed in on the current situation with St-Pierre:<\/p>\n

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\u201cRight now, I\u2019m still looking at GSP,” he said (h\/t Fox Sports<\/a>). “I had a conversation with Dana White last week on the phone, he made me an offer \u2014 not for a fight \u2014 I will not reveal on here what it was but he made me an offer for something. I said what about GSP? He said \u2018GSP does not want to fight.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI said well that\u2019s not what I\u2019m hearing. I said I\u2019m hearing he wants to fight me, his coach told me that he wants to fight me. He said \u2018if I could make the GSP fight happen, I\u2019ll make it happen but he doesn\u2019t want to fight you, I\u2019m telling you.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t know what the f\u2014k is going on out there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bisping then implored St-Pierre to hold up his end of the bargain and make this initially planned fight happen:<\/p>\n

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\u201cGSP, if you\u2019re listening to this, make the call. I\u2019m down. We did the press conference. I\u2019m in 100 percent. Failing that, I will have to fight the number one contender. That is my duty as the champion but we\u2019ve had the press conference for me versus GSP.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I\u2019m still invested in that fight and I want to be part of a big fight and then I\u2019ll take on the number one contender. But if we don\u2019t make this fight soon, I\u2019m going to be forced to move on because that\u2019s what I have to do, that\u2019s my duty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Do you still want to see Michael Bisping and Georges St-Pierre fight?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/21\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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