Originally Posted by IronMan @ MMAOpinion

Every once in a while, I see something that makes me tilt my head, a la Scooby-Doo. A recent comment from Michael Bisping (17-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) I ran into on MMAJunkie popped my ears up a little bit.

It isn’t that Michael Bisping hates his upcoming opponent, Dan Henderson (24-7 MMA, 2-2 UFC, #5/#7 IWMMAR), who’s possibly the most vanilla, sedate human being I’ve ever met. It isn’t that Bisping feels overlooked, as he currently sits as a little more than a 2-to-1 underdog.

It’s that Bisping wants to make his unpopularity on the rankings board about his British-ness, commenting: “I don’t know what it is. Nobody rates me in the top 10. I think it’s because I’m from the U.K., and they don’t give me the credit. It baffles me.”

I’m not sure what baffles him. If it’s that nobody ranks him in the top ten, then he should remember that he hasn’t fought in ten months (which keeps him largely out of the consciousness of fans and commentators), and that his one fight in the last year was a less than impressive year over a very beatable Chris Leben (18-5 MMA, 8-4 UFC). He’s had a great career, but the issue with rankings is always “what have you done for us lately?” and if he thinks it’s a nationalist issue, then he may be the only one who bought this season’s TUF theme.

Originally Posted by IronMan

Well, here's the latest.

For the record, I'm not a Bisping hater, I just get annoyed by the pseudo-nationalist bullsh*t.


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