Originally Posted by GlasgowKiss

After last nights offbeat shenanigans, I'd LOVE to see Bisping/Sonnen square off. Sonnen would have Bisping ten times as pissed off, inside of the first syllable he muttered on the fight.

Originally Posted by Toxic

When that "scumbag" original poster carries a ban hammer around you may want to choose your words more carefully.
distasteful, come on nothing in any of those videos was mean spirited or particularly offensive, they were goofy, funny at moments a little to forced but really nothing to get overly upset about.
Your really reaching and grasping at straws in order to defend that tool.
Definitely not the most entertaining fight of the night, wasn't a snooze-fest but there were far better fights last night.



On behalf of Canadian fans in Alberta, eat **** and die Bisping. Can't wait till he gets matched up with a real contender and gets his ass kicked.(Again)

Originally Posted by Sekou

for some odd reason...................





Michael Bisping won a fan in me last night, I dont know why

Originally Posted by SonOfZion

scumbags sell PPVs.


i think he is a douche, i also think its funny that ppl dislike him so much that they wont admit he is a good fighter. Keep denying it but he isnt a can.

Originally Posted by UFC_OWNS

did you know he had an after party scheduled in liverpool street in sydney which i was going to but i decided not too, and not one of the fighters announced came and none of the sponsors, you also had to pay for tickets in pre advance too. that should show you what kind of person he is.

Originally Posted by No_Mercy

That's interesting, not surprised though. Which fighters were supposed to show up.

Originally Posted by tkoshea

I agree, I don't think it's an English thing at all.

Whenever I go to America (which is quite a lot) I met dozens of American's and I have never once encountered a single one who didn't complement me on my accent and say how they would love to go to London etc.

I don't think the American audience has an agenda against the English at all.

As for Bisping personally, if I remember correctly he was pretty well received when he won the TUF. People liked his personality in the house and he backed it up by winning the whole thing.

I saw him fighting during UFC 114 and I was the only English guy around and all the american's around me were booing a lot. Everyone one of them I spoke to said they hate him and hope Miller kicks his arse.

I suggest the main reason for this was the Hamil fight. The American fight fans thought Hamil was a clear winner and Bisping got a home town decision against an American fighter (you can understand the resentment of this surely?) plus on top of this he was talking smack about Hamil (someone who had the backing of most fans for his achievements inspite of being deaf etc)

From there on Bisping was placed in a pretty controversial position of captaining the UK team vs team USA in his next TUF appearance. He played the role of being the enemy captain well and he was getting under the skin of the Americans (this would have happened to pretty much anyone unless they behaved like GSP because of the fact he was opposing team USA)

So he got under peoples skin, his team won mostly everything and he was hardly gracious in victory. He was rubbing the American's noses in his teams victory and the reason this annoyed people because everyone was aware that his real challenge was still to come (one he failed pretty heavily against Henderson)

TUF is such a large platform for fighter personality and being in Bisping's position as an already hated captain of a team going against team USA is very very likely to only further enhance his role as the hated heel (much like Koscheck to the Canadian's before fighting GSP)

I don't think there is any anti English sentiment from American fight fans (or american's in general) Bisping just has a personality that has potential to be loved or hated and circumstances transpired after the Hamil fight and his Coaching role on TUF to make him hated more than loved (especially in America)

Koscheck, Tito have been in similar positions yet neither are ENglish. It's a matter of personality and how events unfold that dictate how you are perceived by the fans.