This Saturday evening in Montreal, Quebec, Canada the UFC welterweight championship will be on the line as champ Georges St-Pierre goes toe-to-toe with arch-nemesis Nick Diaz.
The fight between Diaz and St-Pierre has been one that the fans have been wanting to see for quite some time and it sounds as if Diaz has wanted it as well. Following GSP’s UFC 137 victory over B.J. Penn, supposedly Diaz “chased” Georges around the hotel “yelling” at him.
UFC President Dana White brought this story to public attention on today’s episode of the Jim Rome Show.
“Nobody has talked about this, I haven’t said anything about it, but at one of the fights, the one where he really starts calling Georges out, he was chasing Georges around the hotel and like yelling at him and stuff. Georges thought he was going to try to fight him in the hotel. He was just waiting for the elevator doors to open and see Nick Diaz.”
St-Pierre has said on numerous occasions, that growing up he was a target and was bullied. White says GSP views Diaz as a bully.
“Like at the last fight where he said all that stuff after his last fight when he said all that stuff about Georges, he was really messing with Georges bad at the fight, like trying to fight him at the hotel. That really pissed Georges off. I don’t think that would ever happen, but Georges St-Pierre felt like it was. Georges has said publicly many times when he was younger he used to get bullied. That’s what got him into martial arts. He just has this crazy thing about bullies and he thinks Nick Diaz is a bully.”
White and St-Pierre spoke last week and if what the President is saying is true, then we may be in for an amazing show at UFC 158 this Saturday night from the Bell Center.
“Georges St-Pierre I talked to him last week, he said ‘Dana, you have no idea what I’m going to do to this kid, I wanna make him retire'”
