"I see myself as the favourite in this fight (against Yoshihiro Akiyama) and if I don't win, then I'll be very disappointed.
"I've been a proud ambassador of UK MMA, I've worked hard and I've helped grow the sport to where it is. I haven't disappeared off to America, like some Mohican wearing people (Dan Hardy) and lived there and trained there, but then come back here and pretend I'm English.
"My roots are here in England and I stay here and I train here and I'm proud to be English. You know, I don't go training in America because the trainings better, but then come here and try and get all the UK fans on my side. I'm English and this is where I'm from and this is where I train".
"I'd love to fight Chael Sonnen. He's looking phenomenal. ...I think personally he's a bit of a tool to be honest. He's awesome at promoting a fight, but he's delusional and he's so far up his own arse it's unbelievable".
"I think if I beat Akiyama well, I think either a rematch with Wanderlei (Silva) or Chael Sonnen or (Nate) Marquardt or whoever the top guys are in line for the title - I want to fight one of them contenders and then hopefully get a shot".
lol, i love Bisping, have done since day one and always will. I love how he gets so much hate for pretty much everything he does/says. I think if he does beat Akiyama which i think hes slight favourite but could go either way, then hes definitely deserves to fight someone whos top 5 and go from there. He has good footwork (excluding the dan henderson fight), good ground game and good wrestling, i just wish he would perform a bit better in the big fights. Cant wait for ufc 120, especially when him and Hardy are sitting next to each other in the press conference.
Going mainly by the # of medals overall not just the recent individual victories, as it tells more about the wrestling program overall not just the individual athletes. Never said USA has the best freestyle wrestlers right now anyway and that would be pretty irrelevant as I doubt any of them would train with Bisping anyway. I do think they have the best freestyle wrestling program, coaches and experience though.
Anyway USA is sitting at 108 medals out of 555 total medals won from freestyle which is pretty damn impressive. Like I said though Europe is superior at Greco-roman, Finland and Sweden for example have 58 and 56 medals from it while USA is at only 14, and we are talking about 2 countries with less than 10m people each. I wonder why greco isn't as popular in usa though... It is a shame really, because I think its better for mma than freestyle as you focus more on body control and clinch game than shooting which plays a key role in freestyle.
That too, and its not like Greco-Roman wrestlers don't have experience on freestyle too.
Randy vs. Gabe is good example of greco roman dominance though, controlling the body of bigger & stronger guy on clinch while dirty boxing, only taking him down at the end of the fight. Cain vs. Rothwell is another great example of perfect body control without really shooting or focusing on legs during the takedowns at cage at all.
Both are great backgrounds though and even though versatility is the for success at mma I do think that focusing more on the specific part on some of the arts makes it apply better for mma when you mix it up with other styles too from different arts. For example there is some Judo and ***** practioners doing mma and while submissions and ground game does play a part on them too it is such a small role compared to something like jitsu (specially no-gi bjj) which is why majority of the submission specialists come with jitsu background. A mix of both though has a great synergy though.
I would really like to see more high level judokas switching to mma too, by high I mean Jacara/Maia/Werdum -high. IF a guy like karo, a guy who never even qualified to olympics at judo (he won several junior championships and was in olympic trials though) can toss people around pretty much at will like he did before his pain killer addiction and other crap, imagine what multiple gold medal winning judokas could do.
Personally I'm following Satoshi Ishii closely right now. He won gold medal in 100kg+ (200~ + pound) division at 2008 olympics and had 2 mma fights so far. He is a 3rd dan judo black belt and bjj brownbelt and is only 23 years old, can go really far with his career still if he chooses to. I'd recommend him dropping down to LHW though.
Here is his second mma fight btw:
that is why judo at mma is so awesome though when combined with decent enough jitsu too, a good trip or hip throw and you are in side control already, if you got sub game to work from there you are pretty damn deadly.
Anyway, I'm going a bit offtopic here... I s till think Bisping is a dumbass if he keeps standing behind his "uk all the way!" -bs. He'll never improve enough if he doesn't expand his training circles.
When you are talking about combining judo with BJJ you are talking about using techniques from both the origina sport and the child sport, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me!:confused02:
It does. Judo DOES have ground game and submission game on it too, but it plays very small role and isn't focused on as much as jitsu practioners focus on the submission game, plus the transitions, sweeps and guard game overall don't play a huge role even in the original non sport version.
So yes, the non sport version of judo focuses on the submissions too, but not as much as a disciple that focuses almost entirely on the submission game. This is also why I think getting best of both, mainly takedowns from judo and submission game from no gi jitsu will be the most efficient. Imagine someone like Maia or Werdum with a judo blackbelt, instead of doing their inefficient shooting or guard pulling from clinch they could go for basic judo trips or more advanced hip tosses where you basically end up in side control already.
I forgot how I managed to get this sidetracked though... But either way I wanna see more high level judokas in mma, because I think it has a great synergy with other arts.
"I'd love to fight Chael Sonnen. He's looking phenomenal. ...I think personally he's a bit of a tool to be honest. He's awesome at promoting a fight, but he's delusional and he's so far up his own arse it's unbelievable".
Yeah Chael is kind've all over the place with his claims of fame and all that. Bisping is a little more humble if that word could ever be applied to him!:confused02:
To say Bisping is arrogant is an understatement. Bisping is full of himself and every loss he gets should be a lesson to him that he is not as good as he thinks he is. Bisping's three losses have shown him that he isn't the best wrestler in the game (Rashad) and that he isn't the best striker in the game (Henderson and Wandi). Despite all this he still thinks he is the best guy on the planet. He definately has potential but he needs more experience!:thumbsdown:
I'm not sure he pretents to be english so much as he just trains hard. Remember that the count used to train in America. Nowadays he trains in the UK and Rampage trains in UK.
Akiyama vs Diaz would be hilarious! Diaz will taunt em like crazy and Akiyama will happily oblige. I see Akiyama JUDO throwing him at will. His only ? is his cardio as always.
Bisping is pretty marketable (hate or love em) so he matches well with a plethora of fighters.
I'd call into serious question Bisping's title as an "ambassador" of UK MMA. He might be the best English fighter and the most well known, but he's far from being an ambassador. Floyd Mayweather may be the best boxer on the planet right now, but in now way is he an "ambassador" of his sport.
I'd consider someone like Ross Pearson, John Hathaway, or Brad Pickett to be an ambassador.
Yeah, he is by no means a good ambassador of UK MMA. If anything else he's more of a hooligan. The man has no respect.
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