Georges St-Pierre responded to Nick Diaz’s various accusations stemming from their 2013 fight with a funny (and completely made up) story.
Back in 2013, Nick Diaz tried to create as much controversy as possible surrounding his fight with Georges St-Pierre in Montreal. There were accusations of GSP not actually making weight but still being allowed to fight. He complained about St-Pierre’s hand wraps. And more recently, Diaz has stated that GSP’s team tried to poison him before the fight. Seriously.
“I think whoever tries to make that fight, I’m gonna have to give him a backhand slap,” the elder Diaz said. “I fought the dude (St-Pierre), they poisoned my IV with some weird ass drug.
“I have 37 fights, been fighting for 17 years, I never slept more than five or six hours a night. (For that fight), I slept 14 hours, I’m like ‘what did you put in my IV, dude? I never had nothing but clear IV. And there was something wrong with his wraps.
“I was flat on the way out (and) I’m in the best shape of my life. Everything was strange.”
That kind of…unique story isn’t unusual for Nick Diaz. Most of the time, St-Pierre takes the high road when it comes to what Diaz, or anyone else, has to say about him. This time though, he decided to respond with a funny story. As a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, GSP mockingly described what actually happened before and around the dreaded fight with Diaz:
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“I gotta confess. I was so scared, so, we tried to poison…I was so scared of fighting Nick Diaz, we poisoned his IV. But he survived! So I was even more terrified! So, all the athletic commission was on my payroll, they tricked the weigh-in and I made it. And it went through. So I was even more terrified.
“So…the aliens abducted me, and they put the gamma rays (in me) to increase my strength like The Hulk. Like a performance enhancing drug. And the fight was still happening! So right before, I put some glass and cement in my gloves, just to make sure. And still I had a crazy hard fight.”
St-Pierre won that fight back in the day via unanimous decision. There has been talk of him dropping to 155 to fight Nick’s brother Nate Diaz lately, but that seems unlikely.
You can watch the entire three-hour episode below if you want.