Georges St. Pierre denies cheating

Georges St. Pierre was on the Beatdown radio show yesterday and responded to the greasing allegations. Sherdog reports:

"Listen, I never cheated in my life," an animated St. Pierre told Sherdog Radio Network's "Beatdown" show on Wednesday. "Let me tell you something, I never said something bad to B.J. Penn. I never answered back to him with what he said. I've always been respectful. Even after the fight I went and told him, 'Hey, keep your head up. You can be proud. You're a tough guy. You stayed in the ring for a long time.' But now that he says something like that it bothers me a lot. He already said I was taking steroids, that I was a quitter, that he was blaming me for seeing a sports psychologist and now he says that I cheat because I use Vaseline."

The 27-year-old French Canadian, who narrowly bested Penn via split decision in their first meeting at UFC 58 in March 2006, said Penn's contempt is misplaced.

"It's disrespectful, but B.J. is a winner," St. Pierre said. "I understand a winner's mentality. A winner's mentality always tries to understand the reason why he lost. In B.J.'s case, he doesn't do it in a good way. I understand that he tries to understand why he lost, but what he should've done instead of looking at things he doesn't control he should've looked at himself in the mirror and asked himself what he should've done better to be more well-prepared for that fight to be able to beat Georges St. Pierre instead of looking at me and try to find excuses... B.J. right now is doing it all wrong and he's not going to become a better fighter if he keeps acting like this."

It's a bit presumptuous for St. Pierre to be claiming he did nothing wrong and he's innocent in all this, but he does bring up some good points about BJ Penn. Always making up excuses doesn't make you a better fighter. It does, however, keep you from having to wash the dishes. Honest, honey, the doctor said if I do the dishes I'll die. You can't argue with science!