michael bisping
Sunday, February 27th, 2011Countdown to UFC 127 - full episode with BJ Penn, Jon Fitch, Jorge Rivera, Michael Bisping, George Sotiropoulos and Dennis Siver. [1]
SYDNEY — MMA Fighting spoke to Michael Bisping after his TKO victory at Sunday’s UFC 127 in Sydney, Australia about why this was a must-win fight against Jorge Rivera, the illegal knee in the first round and why he reacted the way he did after the fight. [2]
MICHAEL Bisping last night kept his vow to silence Jorge Rivera with a dominant second-round TKO victory at UFC 127. [3]
Michael Gavin Joseph Bisping is an English mixed martial artist from Clitheroe, Lancashire. [4]
On 21 April 2007, Bisping scored a TKO win over Elvis Sinosic at UFC 70 in Manchester, England. [5]
He currently fights as a Middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and is the former Cage Warriors Fighting Championship Light Heavyweight Champion, former FX3 Light Heavyweight Champion, and former Cage Rage Light Heavyweight Champion. [4]
At The Ultimate Fight Club UK: Natural Instinct on 29 January 2005, Bisping made his cage kickboxing debut against David Brown in a light heavyweight contest. [5]
Penn, who holds a 2-3 record as a welterweight, looked excited to be on the stage during the weigh-in, which was packed with Australian fans. [3]
Also, heavy-handed Middleweight fighters Jorge Rivera and Michael Bisping will look to settle a bitter and heated rivalry when they step into the Octagon in the night’s co-main event. [6]
Rivera, 38, had taunted and mocked the Clitheroe mixed martial artist for months in the run up to the bout at the Acer Arena, Sydney, Australia. [3]
If any UFC 127 fighter’s life is ripe to be made into a movie it is the story of Jorge Rivera. [6]
He currently fights as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is the former Cage Warriors Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion, former Cage Rage light heavyweight champion and The Ultimate Fighter 3 Light Heavyweight Tournament Winner. [5]
Lots of successful people have haters after all, and he’s made big dollars, established himself as a top middleweight and is a lightning rod for attention. [2]
Bisping was born on a British military base in Cyprus in 1979, but moved to Bridlington, East Yorkshire, England when he was a child. [5]
Dana White has said that the UFC 127 main event between B.J. Penn and Jon Fitch will be a welterweight title eliminator fight. [3]
Sources:
[1] Ultimate Fighting Championship
[2] Michael Bisping Posts — MMA Fighting
[3] Michael “The Count” Bisping - British UFC Fighter
[4] Michael Bisping - FightWiki
[5] Michael Bisping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[6] Michael Bisping - Fights, Knockouts, Record, Next Fight