Over a span of 22 fights, former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping lost just six times, to Dan Henderson, Vitor Belfort, and Chael Sonnen who were on TRT, to Wanderlei Silva who was suspended for years after running from a PED test, and to Tim Kennedy and Luke Rockhold. Only the last two are clean. ‘The Count’ is expert at stirring things up with taunts, but for fighters who have failed PED tests, like Vitor Belfort, Bisping can get particularly pointed.

Belfort has his retirement fight vs. Lyoto Machida at UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington on May 12, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, With Bisping too planning a retirement fight, talk of a Count vs. Phenom rematch keeps coming up.

‘The Count’ is not impressed.

“I don’t wanna fight Vitor ‘Dad Bod’ Belfort who looks like – he should be embarrassed to have his shirt off; 100 percent, said Bisping on a recent Believe You Me podcast, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. I’m not turning him down I’m just saying that’s not somebody I want to share an Octagon with. I have zero respect for the guy.

Belfort reacted in an interview with Fernanda Prates for MMAjunkie, and left the door open for a post “retirement” fight, for a million or more dollars.

It’s what I said: in reality, it will be my final fight and my journey is ending, said Belfort, who immediately contradicted himself. But nothing that a good contract – what, seven digits? – can’t do in terms of helping us return. I’ll keep training. I love doing this. But there needs to be a meaning. There needs to be a purpose and it needs to be something that makes sense.

Then Belfort turned to Bisping.

He’s a coward, said Belfort. That Englishman is a coward. I’d never seen a coward Englishman before. He took a blow, got stunned, and he has his lame excuses, you know. Leave him with his arrogance over there in England.