Bisping: Hendo KO best thing that ever happened to me
I’ve been in the UFC since 2006,” said Michael Bisping.”I’ve had about 14 fights in the organization, I’ve only got three…
I’ve been in the UFC since 2006,” said Michael Bisping.”I’ve had about 14 fights in the organization, I’ve only got three losses on my entire record at middleweight and light heavy, I’ve only been stopped once, and I believe this is my time.
“I’m coming into my peak as a fighter, and everything’s there. I truly believe I’m one of the better fighters out there, and obviously I want to prove that. Take Miller out of the way, and probably one more fight, and then I get my title shot.
“I believe I match up well with Anderson (Silva), I’ll certainly give him a helluva lot better fight than what everybody else has done lately. I ain’t gonna stand there and get front kicked in the face, or I’m not gonna get tapped in the face with a jab and fall over, so I want my shot and I feel I deserve it.
If you go on the internet and believe everything that’s said there, I’m not too popular. But in my experience in day to day life, people are very, very kind to me. I live out here in California now, and people always have nice things to say.
“Obviously when they’ve got a keyboard to hide behind, they say something differently. When it comes to some of the hardcore fans and the guys who do talk about me, I think they see some of my antics and they do look past my skills.
“If you go on the Underground (forum) and look at the things they say, you’d think I couldn’t fight my way out of a wet paper bag, but I lost a split decision to Rashad Evans, I got robbed of a decision against Wanderlei (Silva), and I got knocked out against Dan Henderson.
“Against Dan Henderson, that was the best thing that ever happened to me. I learned a lot from that fight and I realized a lot of the mistakes I was making. The other two fights were razor-thin.
“Other than that, I’ve stopped most of my guys, I have something like a 70% stoppage rate (Ed. Note – Bisping has actually finished nearly 82% of his pro victories by KO or submission), contrary to the idea that everybody has that I can’t punch as well. So I think that (his antics) does overshadow it sometimes, but that is the situation.
