Anyways, I thought early on we were seeing old hesitant Vitor, but after Bisping started landing it apparently woke him up. Decent showing by Bisping, especially Bispings chin. He took some solid punches and that first head kick and was still in there. That second head kick does the same thing to every fighter so no shame there.
At this point if they really want Bisping to fight AS they are going to have to just make the fight. He just can't seem to win when it counts the most.
To be fair if they really wanted him to have that shot they had much easier match-ups to give him. He's had two number one contender fights. One being Chael and the other Vitor. If they wanted that title shot they'd give him someone where he is at least a slight favourite not a slight underdog.
Was expecting to see Bisping pushing Vitor against the fence for the first round or two to wear him down.
Mike looked good early, but I feel like Vitor was measuring him up. I do think Bisping should have mixed it up and shot in for some takedowns, but Vitor is so strong that he probably would have shrugged them off.
I like Mike, but I didn't give him much chance in this fight. He's good. Very good. But not great.
i thought the stoppage was a little early as the punches wasnt getting through very well and i think with a few seconds more he would be turned in to guard.
I think a lot of these refs cant handle pressure very well and thats why they make very quick and often wrong decision to jump in on fights.
I think a few more seconds and Belfort finally gets that one arm out of the way and then Bisping is waking up in an ambulance. Bisping wasn't recovering, he was getting hurt worse.
I love all these " I thought the stoppage was a little early posts" Why, you may ask? Because its over and Bisping lost and he can kiss my sweet ass. That whiff Bisping smelt before going out, yeah that was him sucking a fart and going down. God Im a terrible winner even though I had absolutely nothing to do with this fight what so ever besides watching from distance.
Mike has the skills, he just needs to stop standing with powerful strikers. Close the distance, clinch, wear they guy out man! Seriously, outside of Chael, he's done excellent on the ground.
I agree, both Bisping and Belfort looked sharp, Bisping got caught, Belfort is always good at that, we all knew that too. it could have gone either way.
Looks like these three are going to have to battle it out.
Lombard
Weidman
Vitor
Whoever wins that round robin get the shot OR Vitor moves back up to LHW and fights there. When he's on...he's an extremely dangerous opponent. Til this day I still feel he was Anderson's biggest threat. Chael was winning, but he wasn't in danger of being finished. When you have that threat looming it makes the fight that much more exciting.
Silva thought he could at least get some final fights with people he wants. After Weidman and Belfort again he is going to be so disappointed he will just retire then. :confused05:
Good job to Vitor, it was an impressive victory. Bisping didn't look terrible in this fight at the very least. He had his moments, and had a very humble post fight speech. No excuses, Bisping just took the loss like a man and he will be back.
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