Bisping hasn't heard from UFC on canceled GSP bout

Michael Bisping is as much in the dark about his future as the rest of us.

The UFC middleweight champ's dateless bout with the returning Georges St-Pierre was canceled by president Dana White after GSP revealed he wouldn't be ready to fight until late fall, and as Bisping said Tuesday on his podcast, "Believe You Me," both he and St-Pierre have yet to hear from the brass about the fiasco.

"Honestly, it’s news to me. I haven’t heard anything about it," Bisping said, according to MMA Fighting's Jed Meshew. "I reached out to Georges and he said he hasn’t heard anything officially either, and I still haven’t heard anything from the UFC or Dana White. I know that a lot of people are complaining about this potential delay with Georges, so we’ll see what happens."

White revealed that top-ranked contender Yoel Romero would challenge Bisping instead, but while "The Count" and the former welterweight champ never put their John Hancock on a proper bout agreement, Bisping is still hoping they'll meet in the Octagon.

"I haven’t heard anything and Georges is still hoping for it, I’m still hoping for it," he said.

"I’ll say this, I was offered the fight twice. I was offered the fight in October and it never materialized. I was offered the fight in January or February and it did materialize and we had a press conference and we shook hands and we stood there in Las Vegas and we talked a bit of shit. So okay, I haven’t had a bout agreement but that is the plan. That was the offer and I accepted and I kind of feel that once a deal is made, we should stick to it."

Bisping suspects the fight may have been canceled to have him defend the middleweight strap on pay-per-view before the fall - not because of pressure on St-Pierre to return sooner. But even if that's indeed the UFC's plan, Bisping may not be able to meet the brass halfway, as he revealed he's had a tough go of recovering from knee surgery, which he underwent earlier this year.

"It’s a blessing in disguise because I can’t fight anytime soon," he said. "I can’t exercise, I can’t train. My knee is giving me many, many problems. It was doing it in Thailand, it’s still getting no better ... So long story short, what I’m getting at is I’m not going to be ready to fight anytime soon so again, that’s another reason why this plays into the perfect scenario for me."