Bisping: Major UFC losses to unclean fighters
Michael Bisping: “The blood test they do now will catch more people because they’re testing for more things, but they didn’t do that before.”
Michael Bisping has been a perennial top ten fighter since winning the Ultimate Fighter but has struggled to win big fights against top tier opponents. Bisping believes thought that some of those losses that cost him title shots were to fighters that were taking some form of performance enhancing drugs:
Michael Bisping has suffered losses to Vitor Belfort, Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva. What do those three fighters have in common? They’ve all been caught up in drug testing scandals over the past several months.
While these scandals came up well after each man stepped in the octagon to compete with Bisping, The Count says he’s positive he wasn’t playing on an even field during his 2013 bout with Belfort, his 2012 contest with Sonnen and his 2010 matchup against Silva.
They weren’t clean, Bisping told MMAjunkie. We all know they weren’t f–king clean. They’ve only just started doing blood tests. People have been taking (human) growth hormone and EPO and all kinds of s–t for years. A urine sample will only show certain things, and people know when to come off stuff. It’s an IQ test. The blood test they do now will catch more people because they’re testing for more things, but they didn’t do that before.