Michael Bisping Offers Georges St-Pierre Example To Outline How Ilia Topuria Can Have Grappling Success Against Alexander Volkanovski At UFC 298

In a recent YouTube video, Bisping broke down the main event of February 17 by talking about Topuria's best paths to victory.

The former middleweight champion pushed back slightly on the challenger's team stating that they will be able to take Volkanovski down if they want to.

Bisping instead provided a different route which he believes would see Topuria have more success with his grappling.

"The best chances for Topuria to take him down is to land with the hands, distract him, use them as feints and then take him down. Surprise him or have him wobbled and to get a submission, yeah he could do that, of course he could. I'm not gonna insult Topuria by saying that he couldn't submit Volkanovski but the way that he would do that would be to soften him up on the feet, land a couple of shots and ground and pound and then submit him."

Bisping then went on to reference a fight from his career where he found himself in the exact scenario that he's outlining for Topuria and Volkanovski. 

"The Count" spoke about his submission loss at UFC 217 and how the strikes he absorbed were crucial to him getting caught in a rear-naked choke.

"For example, not to talk about myself, when I lost to Georges St-Pierre, he choked me out in round three. He took me down a few times and he wasn't able to get anywhere close to a submission, couldn't really pass guard, I would get back to my feet every time.

"When he caught me with a big left hook, 'because we know that I does not see out of that left eye too well so that was the strategy' (GSP impression, no I'm not intoxicated. He caught me with a big left hook that dropped me, couple more shots, I thought 'f*** this, I'm getting back to my feet' but I'm not with it. I'm not composed, I'm dazed and confused, like most of the time, so you're not thinking properly and he got me in the rear-naked choke."