"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.
Chael is a tool?? BISPING YOUR THE BIGGEST TOOL IN MMA!! Atleast Chael backs his sht up. You dont ONE BIT.! Against B level fighters you look good against A level fighters you look average at best. You have NO place to be challenging Chael. Also SO what if Dan trains in AMERICA?? if the training is better thats what u you have to do to step your game up. Maybe thats why your just a good B level fighter. Your too proud to do whats good for your career because you think training there for some reason makes you less English?? Your such an idiot.
The trashtalk would definitely be worth it. I can practically picture Hardy saying something like "I fought the best fighter in the world for the WW championship, what has Bisping done? Oh yeah, that's right, nothing, his biggest career highlight was getting knocked out stiff by Dan Henderson"
This has knocked Bisping down in my estimations of him as a person and as a fighter now, Talking shit on Hardy because he wants become a better fighter and be succesful in MMA, weak move on his part. TBH i think Bisping is just jealous of Hardy because Hardy is actually popular in the states and has stole all his limelight.
Doesn't mind picking fights he can't win... IMO Bisping gets beaten by Silva, Nate, Akiyama and totally destroyed by Chael. I'm pretty sure Hardy would beat his ass too!
He's looked nothing but ordinary since the Leben fight and I think Leben would beat him now too.
I think its a little weak to call out Dan Hardy as a phony brit becuase he trains is the US where some of the best camps are. No one will care where the guy trains as long as he wins. In fact, if Hardy had won then Bisping would have lost a lot of value to the UFC because he would have usurped Bisping's role as MMA ambassador to the UK. The brits would have gone wild for Hardy regardless of where he trained.
And what's so bad about learning from camps outside of the country and then maybe bringing it back to the UK with him?
Bisping is a decent fighter but I think personally he's a bit of a tool to be honest.
1) i hope Sexyama whoops pillow hands.. 2) im not a real fan of Bisping so i would love to see Sonnen own him, or now from what eh said have Hardy step up and own him..
What would Chael do to Bisping?? Rashad took Bisping down 4 or 5 times through out that fight and Mike got right back up every time. Bisping stopped many of Rashads takedowns at 205 i doubt Chael would be able to move bisping. Bisping would beat him up on the feet easily all fight.
First he muss get passed akiyama in ufc 120 after that we can talk about a hardy or sonnen match-up.
I hope akiyama get's the chance to kick some ass again in the form of bisping.
Because with this interview the guy lost some of my respect for him...
I never use to get why people disliked Bisping so much but im starting to get it now. Talking crap about Dan because he is trying to better himself and become the best he can be is a very weak move. Dan has fought for a title and managed 5 rounds with GSP, i would love to see Bisping go 5 with Silva... he would get wrecked within 2, if he ever gets a shot. I would much rather see Dan headlining UFC120 over Bisping tbh, Dan has been way more successful in UFC. Also he needs to stop picking fights he wont win, I dont like Chael but he would rag doll and smash Bisping all night.
I'd LOVE to see Chael Sonnen throw Bisping around like a little b*itch! And I have a feeling we'll see that match, as the pre-fight smack talk will be taken to another level!
"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".
FAIL!
Becoming better mixed martial artist requires you to either fly tier 1 training partners to you or going to train with them. Not saying UK doesn't have their own strenghts at several things, for example they have had quite a bit of success in boxing. On the minus side though UK has zero (0) olympic medals from greco and only a few from freestyle, so their wrestling success is pretty much non existant. If I were a bristish mma fighter I would gtfo from UK too and train some freestyle in USA (by far the #1 freestyle country in world) and some greco-roman (in my opinion fits better for mma than freestyle) in for example Finland.
Basically there is a reason why guys like GSP fly to thailand & other asian countries for standup training, brazil etc. for jitsu training. Not saying one can't become "good" by training at 1 gym for their whole career, but you wont become the best if you don't train with the best, and the best don't train in UK.
Back to the topic though; Hardy would KTFO Bisping if they did a catchweight fight or Hardy moved to MW for that fight. His striking is more technical, he is faster and actually knocks people out. The smack talk would indeed be priceless though.
Your implying that he would have to go across the atlantic to get top tier training, i dont know much about the european martial arts scene, but i gotta assume that in the whole of europe, west asia, russia, and north africa there are olympic wrestlers, judoka, jiu jitsu specialists, muay thai specialists, and certainly ***** practioners.
Your implying that he would have to go across the atlantic to get top tier training, i dont know much about the european martial arts scene, but i gotta assume that in the whole of europe, west asia, russia, and north africa there are olympic wrestlers, judoka, jiu jitsu specialists, muay thai specialists, and certainly ***** practioners.
You shouldn't have skipped your geography lessons, Finland is in europe, not across atlantic.
I mentioned USA for freestyle training because they are by far the best country at it, eastern/northern europe countries dominate at greco-roman though as I said.
And yeah he can go to asia too (which I said GSP does too) or even southern europe, basically many locations would work. Basically he is staying in UK; getting average training without really improving his non versatile skillset at all THEN he bitches at guys like Hardy for travelling across the globe for better training instead of staying in UK.
"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 i'm pretty sure they are friends and bisping was just taking the piss out of him, also his twitter comment on chael was taken out of context too, straight after he wrote it, he said something like "nah just joking, chaels great"
He's getting on Hardy for training in the US (so he can evolve into a better fighter)? On that same token, then he should just fight for a local promotion in the UK instead of being EMPLOYED BY AN AMERICAN CO.
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