Michael Bisping says he would have beat ‘GSP’ had he not been injuried
Back at UFC 217, Michael Bisping was looking to defend his middleweight title against Georges St-Pierre. It was the Canadian’s return fight from retirement. And, it ended up going ‘GSP’s’ way as he beat Bisping by submission to win the title.
Yet, looking back on the fight, Bisping believes had he not been injured he would have won that fight. It is also a fight he wants to get back, even though both are retired.
“Well, I know for a fact I could wipe the floor with Georges St-Pierre, so I’d like to do that one again,” Bisping said to MMA Junkie. “I tore my ribs a week before that fight; it’s all in the book. I didn’t break them, I tore the cartilage. I couldn’t move very well.”
Meanwhile, Michael Bisping then said he wanted to use lidocaine to numb the pain. It isn’t a banned substance and could use it. But, he thought he could be removed from the fight, or inject it wrong, so instead fought with the pain.
“I sneaked in a needle full of lidocaine, and I was going to, in the toilets, inject myself with lidocaine into the rib, which would numb the rib so I wouldn’t have any pain,” Bisping revealed. “Because it’s not a banned substance from USADA, I could have gone to the commission and said, ‘Hey, I want to inject myself with lidocaine.’ That wouldn’t have been the issue. But. the fact that I had an injury, they might have pulled me from the fight.
“Then my doctor said, ‘You’ve got to be careful, because if you inject yourself with lidocaine in the rib and you get it slightly wrong, you could puncture your lung and die.’ So I had it all in the bag, and I was going to FaceTime my doctor, on the toilet while the commission members were outside, and he was going to talk me through injecting myself with lidocaine.
“But when I got there I’m like, ‘This is too much, bollocks to it.’ So I just went out there and fought injured. Everyone was saying, ‘You weren’t moving too well.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, no (expletive)!’ My ribs were seriously messed up!”
