Midnight Mania! Georges St-Pierre asks Michael Bisping, ‘Are you still drunk or what?’ in fun press conference

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We should have known! We should have known better, Maniacs. Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson was never going to happen. It is, and always has been, too good to be true. But just when one dared to hope, just when one dared to believe, the mixed martial arts (MMA) gods reached down and snatched it away, snickering to themselves in their skycavern holds, reminding us that the future is fragile, and nothing is certain.

Welcome to Midnight Mania. Life goes on, and tonight we still have lots to watch and discuss.

Like this.

Okay, fine. Like this.

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Insomnia

Michael Bisping took the press conference with Georges St-Pierre from zero to a hundred, real quick. Bisping showed up late, and seemingly also drunk- something GSP was quick to pick up on. He opened by interrupting GSP with a “shut the f**k up”, which pretty much indicated how this was going to go.

From MMAFighting.com:

“I think Vegas got the best out of you, unfortunately,” St-Pierre said to Bisping.

“It doesn’t matter because I’m going to get the f*cking best out of you, so shut the f*ck up,” Bisping said.

That sounds like innuendo, and GSP disagreed, but Bisping wasn’t done:

You’re talking about being a f*cking welterweight. You are a welterweight, okay? I’m a middleweight,” Bisping said to St-Pierre. “I can’t wait to f*cking square up against you. Square up. Stand up and look at the size of me, and look at the size of you. Go back to f*cking, Canada.

GSP, unfazed, returned fire

“That’s all you have on me,” St-Pierre shot back. “That’s all you have. Skill, fighting IQ, athleticism, everything is on my side.”

That’s when Bisping went for the jugular, bringing up aliens and even who has the better accent:

“Oh, is it really?” Bisping replied. “Height? Reach? Good looks? This f*cking accent? The jab, the punch, the kick? Everything. Listen, Georges, while you were away, because you were so scared of everybody taking steroids, I was man enough to still be fighting those guys. You went away. You went and f*cking chased aliens. I don’t know what you did. No one gives a f*ck where you were and what you did. Coming back, the sport is in a different place. Game over.”

“I think you should shut up. You’re embarrassing yourself right now,” St-Pierre said quickly. “Are you still drunk right now? Are you still drunk or what? What’s going on? What is going on with this? Your voice is kinda, what is happening with you? My God. Are you healthy? Are you okay? Up here, did you get hit too much or what?”

“Hey Georges, I’ll go out on an all-night f*cking bender and still beat you, pal,” Bisping said. “I won’t even train. Look at the state of you, you little f*cking midget.”

It was an entertaining start to the night. It’s still not the fight I wanted to see GSPtake, but at least the trash talk is fun.

Ryan Harkness summarized the rest of the press conference here, including Bisping’s response to Yoel Romero.

See the whole stream here.

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Bobs and Weaves

Might be onto at least part of the problem here…

You Maniacs love this so…

Bellator had an event tonight and they tweeted some of the highlights: (catch all of the highlights and the results here)

These two threw the same punch:

Lion Fight also happened tonight, and Muay Thai can be very fun indeed.

GSP’s plan:

Back to Lion Fight 35:

First blood, indeed.

I don’t know where this is from, but

You don’t see this every day.

Same move, different take:

Oh, this must be Pancrase. Can’t mistake the open palms and knee-high boots.

And the weird submissions. I don’t know what this is, except that it’s the definition of “twisted into a pretzel”

Yeah how about let’s not and say we did:

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Quick Hits

• Dana White thinks Khabib could have saved the fight if he had called the UFC doctor instead of calling the hospital. Somehow, that doesn’t sound safe.
• See Tony Ferguson’s surprisingly gracious response right here
• Tony Ferguson turned down Michael Johnson because the UFC, maddeningly, wanted him to take LESS pay for a risky unplanned-for fight with none of the reward. THAT is number one bullshit.

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Random Land

This is creepy

What photoshop skills.

Stay woke, Maniacs!