GSP training for Bisping bout with former foe Jake Shields
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Such is the case for UFC alum Jake Shields, who revealed Monday he's joined former foe Georges St-Pierre's camp in preparation for the welterweight great's November middleweight title bout with Michael Bisping at UFC 217:
Shields - one of the sport's preeminent grapplers - made a run at St-Pierre's welterweight title over six years ago at UFC 129, where GSP took a unanimous decision for his sixth defense of the strap. St-Pierre would face his greatest rival and Shields' longtime teammate Nick Diaz two years later at UFC 158 in a fight he took by yet another unanimous verdict.
Suffice it to say Shields wasn't enlisted to help sharpen St-Pierre's striking ahead of his middleweight debut, scheduled for Nov. 4 at Madison Square Garden.
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