Fight fans will have to wait until the fourth quarter of 2017 to see Georges St-Pierre back in the Octagon after he informed middleweight champion Michael Bisping of his timetable for their upcoming fight.
“Mr. Bisping, I cleared my entire schedule to get ready for training camp after this summer,” St-Pierre stated in a video post on Twitter. “So I can fight you any time after October. Pick the date. Let’s get it on.”
That update is unlikely to be well received by Bisping, who had previously threatened to ditch the fight with GSP if he didn’t agree to fight in July.
However, the champion has also made it clear in recent times that he has his heart set on a big-money match-up and at this moment in time a fight with the Canadian superstar is the only one that really fits the bill, so despite all his posturing, it’s likely that he’ll wait until St-Pierre is ready.
The UFC will surely also be disappointed by the long wait to get GSP back into the Octagon as they had hoped to have this fhght headline their UFC 213 event in Las Vegas during International Fight Week on July 8th.
With Ronda Rousey appearing to have now moved on from her fighting career, Conor McGregor out indefinitely while he continues to pursue a boxing mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr, and now GSP ruled out until the fall, the UFC are running low on star power for much of their 2017 campaign and will have a hard time matching the heady heights of the previous year when multiple cards achieved over 1 million pay-per-view buys.
