The middleweight title bout between Michael Bisping and Georges St-Pierre has been made official. The former welterweight champion will move up a division and immediately go for the belt after over three years away, and Bisping thinks ‘GSP’ is willing to take on that challenge because of how they matched up in past training sessions.
“He chose me because he thinks he can beat me,” Bisping said on Wednesday’s edition of UFC Tonight (transcribed by MMA Fighting). “I trained with him 11 years ago and he outwrestled me.
“Now back then I was a kickboxer from England, I didn’t know a double leg from a double decker bus.