Reflecting on his adorned UFC profession, Corridor of Fame star, Michael Bisping has recounted his notorious 2013 headliner with fellow ex-champion, Vitor Belfort in a hostile setting in Brazil — as soon as extra accusing the veteran of “juicing” forward of their bitter pairing.
Bisping, a former undisputed middleweight champion and Final Fighter victor throughout his tenure with the UFC, took on the above-mentioned Belfort in 2013 atop a UFC Battle Evening Sao Paulo card in Brazil, struggling a thunderous knockout defeat.
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Michael Bisping reignites rivalry with Brazilian foe Vitor Belfort
Felled within the second spherical towards the previous mild heavyweight star, Bisping was dropped and stopped by way of a important high-kick from Belfort, nonetheless, regardless of testing optimistic for banned substances afterward throughout his divisional run, the Brazilian has been accused of using efficiency enhancing medicine of their pairing as well.
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“Vitor Belfort, [was] juiced out of his mind, kicked me in the head and detached a retina,” Michael Bisping mentioned throughout a latest look on the JAXXON Podcast. “Then it re-detached, and I got glaucoma—just one thing after another.”
“He kicked me in the head he was was juiced out to the max,” Michael Bisping defined. “You can take one look at the guy and you know”
Finally rebounding to win the middleweight crown following a run which noticed losses to each Tim Kennedy and Luke Rockhold, Bisping would headline UFC 199 towards the latter on brief discover in 2016, stopping him with an upset first spherical knockout to win his first championship in his time with the promotion.
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Lodging a sole profitable title protection, Bisping would avenge his notorious UFC 100 knockout loss to bitter rival, Dan Henderson in Manchester later that yr, beating the previous Pleasure FC icon with a contentious unanimous determination win on house soil.
