GSP ignores Bisping barbs, promises to win comeback bout at UFC 217 in New York
TORONTO — It seemed only fitting that the UFC chose the Hockey Hall of Fame to hype Georges St-Pierre’s comeback fight against middleweight champion Michael Bisping.
Back in 2010, UFC president Dana White stirred a Maple Leaf hornet’s nest when he declared that GSP, then welterweight title-holder and mixed martial arts’ pay-per-view king, was the “most famous athlete to ever, ever — in the history of the world — come out of Canada.”
When someone brought up Wayne Gretzky’s name, White doubled down.
“Super nice guy,” he said of No. 99. “Got nothing against him. Fly him over to England, fly him over to Asia, fly him to anywhere in Europe, Georges St-Pierre gets mobbed, nobody knows who the hell Wayne Gretzky is.”