White: 'Ship has sailed' on GSP-Bisping bout

by Michael McClymont
Joe Camporeale / USA Today Sports

Despite what Georges St-Pierre and Michael Bisping said recently, there will be no fight between the two, according to UFC president Dana White.

"The Georges St-Pierre ship has sailed," White said Saturday night at the post-UFC 213 press conference. "That fight's not happening, obviously. I've been saying that now for a while."

Bisping had recently offered St-Pierre a deadline to get the fight set in stone by Saturday. St-Pierre reportedly responded to that challenge Thursday via text, accepting the fight.

White has had enough of the back and forth, however.

"I had a press conference for that fight and it never happened," he said. "So, we had to move on."

Robert Whittaker defeated Yoel Romero to claim the interim middleweight title Saturday night and set up a unification bout with Bisping. Afterwards, White said Whittaker-Bisping is "absolutely the fight that should happen, and it's gonna."

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