Bisping: No regrets but some sour grapes over losses to PED users

UFC middleweight Michael Bisping, 36, has been knocked out only twice in his career, by Dan Henderson and Vitor Belfort. Both Hendo and Belfort were on Testosterone Replacement Therapy. In the past 17 fights, “The Count” has lost just six, to Henderson and Belfort, to Chael Sonnen who was on TRT, to Wanderlei Silva who was suspended indefinitely after running from a PED test, and to Tim Kennedy and Luke Rockhold. Kennedy and Rockhold are the sole clean fighters Bisping lost to since 2007.

Bisping appeared recently on Ariel Helwani‘s The MMA Hour, and conceded there’s a little bit of sour grapes at being the poster child for being cheated.

“Obviously the benefit of hindsight is a great thing,” said Bisping as transcribed by Shaun Al-Shatti for MMAFighting.com. “I respect GSP for what he said. I really do. Looking back now, now I’m a little wiser, a little more mature. I certainly understand what he was saying, and now I understand how rife the problem was. I think I was a little naïve in also understanding how much of a problem it was.”

“Certainly the whole TRT thing, people said at the time they needed TRT or they couldn’t fight. Well a majority of those guys now aren’t on TRT and they still fight, so it was just a blatant cheat.”Bisping said.

“Looking back, yeah, of course there’s a little bit of sour grapes. There’s a little bit of ‘what if’ and this and that. But ultimately, it’s like I said before, I fought with injuries. I get headbutted and can’t see, I carry on. I’m a fighter. And even though I knew they were on testosterone, even though I knew there was a good possibility they were taking steroids, I still chose to fight them. I live with those decisions and I stand by them. I don’t regret a single thing.”

Michael Bisping fights C.B. Dollaway at UFC 187 on May 23, 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada