Michael Bisping has either brought out the big guns in the psychological battle against upcoming opponent Georges St-Pierres or he really does have an ace up his sleeve.
With just over a month to go until the most high-profile fight of his career, Bisping has insisted that he has a mole in St-Pierre’s training camp who is feeding him intel about what the returning welterweight legend has planned for UFC 217.
Bisping will defend his middleweight crown for the second time on November 4, when he welcomes GSP back to the Octagon following a four-year spell away from the sport which he ruled for six years.
Bisping vs. St-Pierre will headline the stacked UFC 217 card in Madison Square Garden and, ahead of the super-fight, the Brit has insisted that he knows the ins and outs of his opponent’s strategy.
“(St-Pierre) is actually in LA a lot these days,” Bisping said on his Believe You Me podcast, via MMA Junkie. “He’s been at the Wild Card Boxing gym, training with Freddie Roach. I have a couple of spies in there, by the way, and they told me some info.
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“Georges, if you’re listening buddy, that’s a public domain. I know people in there. I know what you’re working on, pal. I know what you’re working on, and it ain’t going to work on me, Georgie boy.”
St-Pierre should represent the biggest payday of Bisping’s career given his superstar name and the Canadian is the bookmakers’ favourite to defeat ‘The Count’ and become only the fourth fighter in UFC history to have won a title in multiple weight classes; after Randy Couture, BJ Penn and Conor McGregor.
But the defending champion has issued his pre-fight prediction and vows to hand St-Pierre just the third defeat of his illustrious career which has cemented his place in the GOAT argument.
“Generally, when I fight wrestlers in the past, I move around a lot,” Bisping added. “I utilise a lot of lateral movement, forward and back movement, side to side, because if you’re moving, it’s hard for a wrestler to shoot a double leg on you because you’re a moving target. I won’t be doing that this time.
“I’m going to stand right in front of him, I’m going to plant my feet, I’m going to walk him down, put him on the back foot, and I’m going to knock him out in the first round. You have my word.”
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