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Michael Bisping Says He “Took Luke Rockhold’s Soul” At UFC 199

Michael Bisping hasn’t forgotten about Luke Rockhold. ‘The Count’ secured his first even UFC title in a jaw-dropping first round knockout win over Rockhold back in June. Rockhold has since remained out of Octagon action due to an injury, however, he recently commented on an episode of The MMA Hour with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani

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Michael Bisping hasn’t forgotten about Luke Rockhold.

‘The Count’ secured his first even UFC title in a jaw-dropping first round knockout win over Rockhold back in June. Rockhold has since remained out of Octagon action due to an injury, however, he recently commented on an episode of The MMA Hour with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani that he’d be prepared to forego a title opportunity to settle his differences with Bisping in a final trilogy bout.

Bisping got the opportunity to respond earlier this week (quotes via MMA Fighting), and stated that he believes Rockhold is done competing in mixed martial arts (MMA) after he ‘took his soul’ in their UFC 199 match-up:

“What is Luke Rockhold doing?” Bisping said. “When did he say he’s going to fight again? What are his plans? I do believe we are now almost in March. That fight was in June. I don’t know what happened there, but I think I took his soul. I don’t think we’ll ever see Luke Rockhold again. I beat the sh*t out of him. I don’t know, I think he’s done. The way he went down, I think so. Why hasn’t he fought again?

“A lot of time has passed. If that were me, I would’ve been right back in there.”

The middleweight champ has no shortage of foes in the 185-pound division, as he also has a bit of unfinished business with former division kingpin Anderson Silva as well. The pair tangled back in February of last year with Bisping taking home the unanimous decision win. The victory came with a bit of controversy, however, as a flying knee at the end of a round by Silva seemed to have rendered the Brit unconscious; but ‘The Spider’ walked away from Bisping without attempting to finish the fight.

Silva recently took home a controversial unanimous decision win over Derek Brunson at UFC 208 earlier this month (Sat. February 11, 2017), a fight that Bisping thinks the Brazilian actually lost:

“I thought he lost,” Bisping said. “I guess you could see an argument for him winning, but I think he disappointed. I thought Anderson really, to be honest, clowned himself, clowned everybody in attendance, clowned the UFC. It was clearly obvious that Anderson was the better fighter. He stopped the takedowns for the most part. His takedown defense looked great. And when he did decide to pull the trigger and actually throw something, he was all over Brunson.

“But he just didn’t pull the trigger. He stood there and he tried to do his usual Anderson Silva thing. He doesn’t fight with a sense of urgency because he’s the great Anderson Silva. Well, unfortunately, that’s not good enough. He got very lucky with the decision, and I feel that it’s a real shame, because like everybody, I’m a fan of Anderson Silva. I like watching him fight. I feel that he didn’t do justice to his legions of fans.”

Bisping also took a shot at Silva’s past issues with performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), stating that Silva looked a little ‘flabbier’ at weigh-ins before his match with Brunson:

“He did,” Bisping said. “I said that at the weigh-ins when I saw at the weigh-ins. He looked a little skinny, and a little flabbier. It’s weird. Weird when you don’t take steroids what happens to you.”

Do you think Bisping and Rockhold will get the opportunity to throw-down once again? Or will Silva instead run it back with the middleweight champ first?

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Video: Dominick Cruz Breaks Down His Second Win Over Urijah Faber Ahead Of UFC 207

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Ahead of his latest title defense against a Team Alpha Male fighter in Cody “No Love” Garbrandt in the co-main event of next Friday’s UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey pay-per-view, UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz is the…

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Featured above is “UFC 207: Dominick Cruz – My Fight at UFC 199,” which features the reigning UFC 135-pound champion breaking down his second win over Team Alpha Male leader, the recently retired Urijah Faber, from their trilogy bout / rubber match at the UFC 199 pay-per-view back in June.

Cruz returns to the Octagon to defend his UFC Bantamweight Championship against Garbrandt in the co-main event of UFC 207, the final PPV of 2016, which also features Amanda Nunes vs. Ronda Rousey for the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship in the main event.

UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey takes place next Friday, December 30th, from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Join us here at MMANews.com on 12/30 for live round-by-round results coverage of the pay-per-view.

Video: Luke Rockhold vs. Michael Bisping From UFC 199 (Full Fight)

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UFC is giving fans the chance to relive the fight that finally made Michael Bisping a world champion before he makes the first defense of said-title this Saturday at UFC 204 in his home country of England.

Featured ab…

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Featured above is the complete Luke Rockhold vs. Michael Bisping 2 UFC Middleweight Championship bout from UFC 199, which saw Bisping knock out Rockhold to capture the UFC 185-pound belt.

Bisping defends the title for the first time against former rival Dan Henderson in a rematch of their epic first encounter at UFC 100, which Hendo won via vicious knockout, at this Saturday’s UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson 2 event from the O2 Arena in London, England.

Make sure to join us here at MMANews.com this Saturday for live coverage of the UFC 204 pay-per-view!

Luke Rockhold: I Can Get Paid Much More Modeling Than Fighting

You know it’s a slow week in MMA when a former UFC champion is talking about modeling in the news. But that’s just what former middleweight boss Luke Rockhold is doing. After he was knocked out in shocking fashion in his short-notice title fight against Michael Bisping at June’s UFC 199, Rockhold was quick to

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You know it’s a slow week in MMA when a former UFC champion is talking about modeling in the news.

But that’s just what former middleweight boss Luke Rockhold is doing. After he was knocked out in shocking fashion in his short-notice title fight against Michael Bisping at June’s UFC 199, Rockhold was quick to claim that Bisping got lucky and that he deserved an immediate rematch given that he had already submitted “The Count” in November 2014.

However, during an appearance on this week’s The MMA Hour, Rockhold’s stance on that rematch seems to have calmed down a bit, as the notoriously handsome middleweight could be enjoying the fame and attention fighting brings him in other ways. Rockhold was recently revealed to be dating pop star Demi Lovato, and now he’s got another opportunity in the works.

Apparently the former champ has a modeling gig that pays significantly more than fighting does, so while he wants to avenge his loss to Bisping and reclaim his title, he says it has to ‘make sense’ for him to put his health on the line for less money:

“I definitely want to fight, and I want to get back to that title and get my shot. So, it’s about making the right move next, and making it worth my while. I’m not going to just go out there and put my body on the line when I can get paid that much more in this world [modeling]. So, if they make it worth my while, I’d love to come back. This is what I love to do — I love to fight. But, it’s got to make sense.”

Rockhold made it clear that he has a good report with his employers at the UFC, and that he also has several fights remaining on his contract with them. He knows they are notorious for using hard-line negotiating tactics with fighters, and he accepts that as part of the fight game. But he said he has other avenues to make money himself, so he has the rarely-available opportunity to take time off as a fighter:

“I have a good relationship with the UFC for sure. It’s just, they’re always going to…it’s business, they’re going to make things to their advantage, of course. Try to take advantage of certain things and put you in a place and do what they can. That’s business, that’s how it is. And guess what, I’ve got my own business on the side and I can stand my ground too. I can take some time off.”

Sitting pretty at No. 3 on the official pound-for-pound rankings less than three months ago, there was talk that Rockhold was already the most accomplished middleweight of all time. That came crashing down against Bisping, however, a fight where Rockhold had an injured MCL that has since required some gruesome treatments to get on the path towards healing right. With that and other nagging injuries playing into his decision, Rockhold again described a scenario where he’d be paid more to instead let his body heal rather than continually bet it up:

“I’m a fighter at heart, but I’m here to get paid, so if there’s more potential [in modeling], I’ll take it. And we’re talking big numbers, so I could laugh and let my body heal and wait for the time’s right to come back and fight when it makes sense.”

With fighter pay at the center of a hotbed of issues constantly being discussed about the UFC and MMA as a whole, it’s understandable that a top-ranked former champion wants to be paid what he’s worth, especially with potentially lucrative business opportunities awaiting him outside the cage.

However, it’s going to be tough to negotiate a big payday when you just got knocked out by a fighter most regarded as a mid-level contender for most of his career, and owning a wishy-washy stance on fighting the best in the world may not be the best path to getting the belt back.

Rockhold reiterated that in a somewhat surprising context when asked if he wanted to fight at November’s supposedly blockbuster UFC 205 from New York (which currently has no fights booked), proclaiming that he might, but not if it were to interfere with any of his new modeling obligations:

“But at the same time, if I’m going to go put my body [on the line], and put off deals in [the modeling] world, it’s got to make sense in my world. If I’m going to put down deals that are worth more than I’m fighting for and I’m avoiding a shoot or something I need to do, it just doesn’t make sense. I’m going to go beat my body down and put myself through hell. I love the reward at the end, but the reward’s got to be worth it.”

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Dan Henderson Was ‘Absolutely’ Ready To Retire After UFC 199

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Many fight fans were extremely surprised to see No. 13-ranked Dan Henderson receive a title shot against newly minted 185-pound champion Michael Bisping, but he did, and the two are slated to face off in a rematch at UFC 204 on October 8, 2016 in Bisping’s home of Manchester, England. Many were also surprised to hear Henderson, who currently sits at age 45, say that win or lose, he would retire after the title fight, but he appears to be sticking to his guns. In fact, the former Olympian was ready to hang up his gloves after his stoppage victory over Hector Lombard at June 4’s UFC 199:

“It all depended on what my options were afterwards as far as employment goes,” Henderson said on Monday’s The MMA Hour. “I was ready to kind of have that one be my last fight depending on, like I said, what options I’d have. For whatever reason, the stars aligned and the fans asked for one more fight, I guess.”

Despite the matchup being a somewhat strange one, at least from a rankings standpoint, Henderson admits that he wasn’t overly surprised by the booking given the interest from fans as well as Bisping himself:

“I don’t know if I was surprised just because I saw on my social media and all over the place how many fans wanted that fight,” he said. “The UFC does listen to the fans sometimes. It didn’t hurt, like I said, that Michael Bisping wanted the fight also.”

“Hendo”, a former PRIDE and Strikeforce champion, has achieved great things in his lengthy career, although a UFC title has been the one shiny gold strap that has avoided his grasp. While he may not have expected to receive a shot at the belt this late in his career, he now plans to make the most of the opportunity, as becoming a UFC champion is one of the last goals he had set for himself:

“It’s something I didn’t think was going to happen and now it’s happening and I’m going to make sure to make the most of it.”

“It’s pretty much the last goal that had set for myself,” he admitted. “A couple of years ago as I lost a couple of times here and there and wasn’t having the best of luck, I kinda figured that I wouldn’t have that opportunity again, but I was still satisfied with what I’ve done with my career and satisfied with myself with not having that UFC belt. But it is the last one that I don’t have.”

As far as what Henderson plans to do after his fighting career hits its expiration date, he said that he’d like to talk with the UFC about potentially representing the promotion in some way outside of the Octagon:

” [I] kinda wanted to finish my contract up and have a talk with Dana [White] about either representing [the UFC] in some capacity outside of the cage in working for the UFC,” he said. “That was what I was going to speak with them about, not necessarily fighting again.”

Are you giving Henderson a chance against Bisping?

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Video: Cody Garbrandt Goes “Full Blast” For Cruz-Faber III Fight At UFC 199

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When Dominick Cruz fought his Team Alpha Male teammate Urijah Faber in their trilogy bout for the UFC Bantamweight Championship at UFC 199, fellow UFC 135-pound standout Cody “No Love” Garbrandft was mic’d up for a new episode of “UFC Full Blast.”

Featured above is Garbrandt’s “Full Blast” video from UFC’s “Ultimate Insider” program on FOX Sports 1, which was released for free via the official UFC On FOX YouTube channel on Monday afternoon.

“Bantamweight star Cody Garbrandt was mic’d up for his live reaction to the UFC 199 title fight between his teammate Urijah Faber and his heated rival, Dominick Cruz.”

Garbrandt makes his Octagon return at the stacked UFC 202 pay-per-view event, as he looks to add to his momentum when he meets longtime durable contender Takeya Mizugaki in an undercard bout.

Headlined by the highly-anticipated rematch between Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor, UFC 202 is scheduled for this Saturday, August 20th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Join us here at MMANews.com this Saturday for live coverage of the UFC 202 PPV.

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“Bantamweight star Cody Garbrandt was mic’d up for his live reaction to the UFC 199 title fight between his teammate Urijah Faber and his heated rival, Dominick Cruz.”

Garbrandt makes his Octagon return at the stacked UFC 202 pay-per-view event, as he looks to add to his momentum when he meets longtime durable contender Takeya Mizugaki in an undercard bout.