Near the end of a phone interview, I got to talking with Michael Bisping about why, despite a very respectable record in the UFC, some people insist on adopting the position that he is a mediocre middleweight who could never be a UFC champion.
Why do they say he doesn’t have what it takes to be a top contender? Why do they denigrate his grappling ability and punching power, no matter what his past opponents say?
After all, it was Chael Sonnen who told me that after he signed on to fight Bisping he got a phone call from Dan Henderson, warning him not to believe everything he’d heard about the Brit.