There are fighters and then there’s Michael Bisping.
Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping may just be the toughest fighter the sport has ever seen.
When Dan Henderson rendered him unconscious with that devastating H-Bomb from hell, Bisping got back up on the horse.
When Vitor Belfort detached his retina with that thunderous head kick heard around the world, he got back to winning ways inside the Octagon just three months later.
When Anderson Silva landed that seismic knee that nearly decapitated him, he picked himself up, dusted himself off and fought until the final buzzer to claim a unanimous decision victory.
When he lost title eliminator after title eliminator after title eliminator, he kept on trucking until he ‘fulfilled his destiny’ after a decade in the promotion.
When he received his first title shot against Luke Rockhold, who finished him two years previously, he accepted it on short notice and knocked him out with the cleanest knockout you will ever see.
When Henderson landed that patented H-Bomb again in the first round of their rematch, he composed himself and fought back to score an emphatic decision victory.
When Georges St-Pierre, arguably the greatest fighter to ever grace an Octagon, beat him to the ground and locked in a rear-naked choke, he refused to tap until the lights went out.
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When the UFC needed a short-notice replacement to take on one of their most highly-touted rising stars, Bisping accepted the call.
Bisping has agreed to fight Kelvin Gastelum at UFC Shanghai on November 25. Anderson Silva was originally scheduled to take on Gastelum, but ‘the Spider’ was provisionally suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Agency and subsequently removed from the card after failing an out-of-competition drug test.
This means that just three weeks after suffering that devastating loss to GSP, Bisping will step back into the Octagon again to face a fighter who many have pegged as a future UFC champion.
We don’t deserve fighters like Michael Bisping.
