(I’m not sure if I can pull off a playing a brash, cocky hoodlum, but I’ll give it a shot.)
Now when people talk about the "Michael Bisping soap opera," there’s a good chance they’ll be talking about a television show, not the drama the perpetual smack-talker usually creates leading up to his UFC bouts.
The 31-year-old Cyprus-born Liverpudlian revealed during The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani today that he will play a gangster on an unnamed British daytime drama.
"I’m expecting to get a lot of grief from the Internet," Bisping told Helwani. "It’s not a novel soap opera, it’s a daytime soap opera. I play a bit of a bad guy."
s no stranger to cameras, having won the third season of The Ultimate Fighter reality television show. But recently, instead of playing himself or an extension of himself, he’s been in front of the camera and required to do something most athletes dread: memorizing lines.