Rivera to Bisping: Upset? Shut me up with a KO
Michael Bisping seems royally pissed about the hype Rivera has generated since their upcoming fight at UFC 127 went from…
Michael Bisping seems royally pissed about the hype Rivera has generated since their upcoming fight at UFC 127 went from speculation to inevitability.
Rivera said there’s no reason for the Brit to get bent out of shape. But if Bisping wants to go there, he’s welcome to do something about it in the cage.
“You knock me out and shut me the f— up? Everything is cool,” Rivera told MMAjunkie.com Radio ahead of their Feb. 27, which takes place at Acre Arena in Sydney, Australia. “It’s no problem. That’s what I get for running my mouth.”.
“I didn’t want to take the fight because I feel he’s beneath me,” Bisping told MMAjunkie.com in an earlier interview. “But I have to take the fight now and teach him a lesson.”
“I look at this fights, and I think to myself, ‘Dude, you run around for 15 minutes; you don’t finish people,'” he said. “Make it an exciting fight. Come to fight me.”
“I don’t take too much of this personally,” he said. “I’m having fun with everything right now. Let’s just get ready to fight. I’m having fun. I’m entertaining the fans. This is me as a fighter to entertain. To make you guys laugh (and) enjoy it and want to see the fight. And I have to go in there and deliver. That’s what I plan on doing.”
“We’re all trying to get the same thing. Outside of fighting, I don’t hang out with 20 of these guys. We’re just business acquaintances.”