Michael Bisping gets ‘brutally honest’ with GSP for vacating title: He’s a ‘prick’

Michael Bisping thinks Georges St-Pierre is a ‘prick’ for vacating the UFC middleweight title.

You didn’t think Michael Bisping was going to give Georges St-Pierre an easy time for vacating the UFC middleweight title, did you?

In vintage Bisping fashion, ‘The Count’ got ‘brutally honest’ with GSP and called him a ‘prick’ on the latest episode of his Believe You Me podcast.

“He’s a prick. He’s a prick, god bless him,” Bisping said, per MMA Fighting’s Jed Meshew.

“I’m gonna be brutally honest here, it’s a double-edged sword. It’s a good thing and a bad thing. By the way, Dana White threw me under the bus when he first found out. He wasn’t happy with Georges and he said, ‘Yeah, well he cherry-picked Bisping.’ That doesn’t do me any favors! He didn’t cherry-pick me, but I did say that. I said Georges wanted to fight me because he thought I was an easy fight and this and that, and he got the win, and then he vacated the belt. Now he vacated the belt because apparently he had to go to the hospital after our fight and he thought he was gonna be paralyzed and he had a bad neck and all this type of stuff. I don’t know. He just doesn’t fancy doing it again.”

Bisping, 38, fought back-and-forth with St-Pierre at UFC 217 before being choked unconscious with a rear-naked choke in the third round.

St-Pierre relieved Bisping of his championship duty but vacated the belt due to his recent diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory health condition that affects the inner lining of the colon. Despite his diagnosis, GSP hasn’t retired and the fan favorite is hoping to return to the Octagon sometime next year.

While Bisping understands ‘Rush’s’ decision, the outspoken Brit can’t help but think it’s a ‘bit of a bitch move’.

“In one respect, it’s good for me because, as an MMA fighter, as a boxer, whatever it is - if somebody beats you, you never want them to lose again because if they get beat, then the person that beat them, it has a negative impact on you. Like, ‘Oh, they could have beaten me as well.’ So he’s never going to fight at 185 again, that’s good. I’m the only person at 185 he ever beat, nobody at 185 is ever gonna beat him. So cheers Georges, thanks for that. But at the same time, it looks like a bit of a bitch move, you know what I mean? So there’s pluses and negatives.”

Robert Whittaker, the former interim middleweight champion, was promoted to official champ after GSP relinquished the title and the 26-year-old New Zealander will take on the top-ranked Luke Rockhold in a championship bout at UFC 221 in Perth, Australia on Feb. 11.

Bisping, who has been competing under the UFC banner for over eleven years, was brutally knocked out by Kelvin Gastelum just three weeks after he lost the belt to St-Pierre and plans to retire at next year’s UFC London event on March 17.