Luke Rockhold got a new (in a sense) opponent when Michael Bisping stepped in on short notice to replace oft-injured former champion Chris Weidman, who was forced out with a serious neck injury, in the main event of June 4’s UFC 199 from Inglewood, California.
Not surprisingly, Bisping got the trash talk started in short order with only a little over two weeks until the fight takes place, but after Rockhold already submitted ‘The Count’ in their first match-up at November 2014’s UFC Fight Night 55, it just doesn’t hold the same weight. In a side-by-side appearance on last night’s (Wed., May 18, 2016) “UFC Tonight,” Rockhold refuted Bisping’s insistence that the UFC middleweight title was his destiny in brutal fashion.
Check it out:
Rockhold on Bisping’s title aspirations: It’s your destiny, huh? It’s your destiny to be my little b****. #UFC199https://t.co/k5YkBnaE3d
— UFC Tonight (@UFCTonight) May 19, 2016
It’s hardly a surprising reaction from the champ, who thoroughly dominated Bisping in all facets of the fight game not all that long ago, and indeed, it may be hard to envision a scenario where “The Count” walks away from The Forum with the middleweight title somehow wrapped around his waist. But the Brit is coming off by far his biggest win ever over all time great former middleweight champion Anderson Silva, albeit controversially.
Many would argue that is far from defeating the bulldozing force that Rockhold has undoubtedly become in recent years, however. Is Bisping’s real destiny to finally hoist the gold that has eluded him during his 10-year UFC career, or is he simply the next victim on Rockhold’s reign of destruction?
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