Bisping: Cormier is a pro, doesn’t want you to feel sorry for him
Michael Bisping: “He’s earned a $#!@ ton of money, he’s been the champion, and he’s lost and he’s a grown ass man and he’ll deal with it.”
A concussed Daniel Cormier cried after losing his belt to Jon Jones at UFC 214 on Saturday night. There was a variety of reactions, with the mom’s basement types laughing, and most fighters offering support. During his latest Believe You Me podcast, UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping offered his opinion.
The Count expressed a great deal of respect for Cormier, indicated he was sorry to see him lose, said correctly that it added insult to injury, and concluded that Cormier doesn’t want us to feel sorry for him, so we shouldn’t. After losing to Jones the first time at UFC 182 in 2015, footage emerged of Cormier crying backstage and being consoled by AKA teammate Cain Velasquez. During a pre-UFC 214 press interview, Jones said to Cormier, “I just want to make you cry backstage again.” Bones obviously succeeded beyond his wishes.
Cormier shouldn’t have done that,” said Bisping, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. “I thought it was bad because – listen, I’ve never cried when I’ve lost a fight, that’s not what I’m saying though. What I’m saying is because how much they dislike one another, and for as classy as Jon Jones could be inside the octagon, don’t tell me that that wasn’t the ultimate f***ing revenge for Jon Jones to see D.C. crying. So what I mean is that the way he should have handled that better is to save that for the private moments.
But he’d just been scrambled. Obviously, he wasn’t thinking straight. He was highly emotional, he’d just been knocked out. You don’t know where you are when you’ve been knocked out, I’ll tell you that right now. Even though you’re back on you’re talking to Joe Rogan, you still don’t know what the f*** is going on. And by the way, that was a bad knockout.
In that period of fighting for the title and being the champion, [Cormier] has made millions and millions of dollars. I would guess six to seven million dollars in a couple of years, maybe more. Maybe close to ten million dollars, who knows? I was feeling sorry for him but then I said, hold on a minute. At the end of the day, we do this for money. He’s earned a s***-ton of money, he’s been the champion, and he’s lost and he’s a grown ass man and he’ll deal with it. There’s no need to sit here feeling sorry for him and he probably doesn’t want that anyway.
