Bisping Rnd 1 is 3/1 with Skybet.

Would love to see him win early, but everything Riveira has said is right, Bisping hasnt knocked anyone out for ages, and his gameplan for the past 10 fights has been jab and move away, with a few other combinations.

Not exactly ages...2 unanimous decision wins and a close loss to wanderlei...before that a convincing tko against denis kang!!

If you look at alot of the top fighters...gsp,anderson,edgar and even in boxing calzaghe,mayweather etc they win most of there fights by decision....its fighting clever...

Do u want him to wade in for the ko and get clipped be a big hook just 4 an exciting fight...

I think bispings a clever fighter and i hope he sticks to his game plan and doesnt get caught up in all this trash talk crap!!

Im not knocking him as a fighter, just stating that what Rivera said was in reality, correct. He didnt wade in against Dan Henderson, and look where he ended up there. I just wish he would go back to his Cage Rage days, when he hit someone, he followed it up and went on the warpath. Now, he hits someone, throws a nice combination then backs away.

Anyway, judging by the video of the weigh ins, this is the most pumped up Bisping has been for a long time. So hopefully, it will be a good fight.

Anybody any fancies in the Penn vs Fitch fight. On Junkie all the Yanks feel it will be a walk in the park for Fitch, but I think BJ has the punching prowess to knock him out.

And.... shame about Paul Daley missing weight at BAMMA this weekend. Making his fight no longer a title fight. He came in 400g over weight, and there is no 1lb catchment area in title fights. A few stories that the hotel where the fighters were staying, they wernt allowed to use the sauna or something and had to travel to another hotel to use theirs.

I read that hed missed weight because the sauna was out of order or summut??

Its not the 1st time its happened with Daley though..think he had to give a pencentage of his purse back in one of his ufc fights for not cutting and if i recall he missed weight after being booted out of ufc....correct me if im wrong?

Regardless hes a beast and always look forward to his fights...reminds me of Tyson!

he's got a ground game just like tyson as well.


I'd like to say penn for tonight, i can't help but worry about fitch grinding him against the fence.

mind sanchez tried a bit of that against bj and ended up with a face made of mush.

Fitch I can see winning a decision, Bisping hopefully stops Jorge, G sot by submission, Lytle by anyway he wants and the pearson fisher fight could be epic. And dont forget 2 free fights on facebook always a bonus when you dont have sky/espn if you get my drift

Good performance from Bisping last night..controlled the fight kept himself composed and stopped the fight impressively.

Really thought the fight was going to be stopped prematurely after that illegal knee so well done to revera for getting up and getting on with it..(100% wasnt deliberate)

Also it was said at the press conference that reveras camp have called for bisping to be suspended because of the knee....what a bunch of idiots..they need to let it go, seems after all the pre match nonsence from them there showing they genuinely have no class after all!!

well rogan was BSing about the possibility of rivera being concussed from that, and how long it took him to get up, as soon as it was re started he was better than fine.

very disapointed with G-sot last night.

Yeah agree,awful takedown attempts from sotiropoulos couldnt get near him.

Dont really know what to make of the penn, fitch fight to be honest...didnt exactly fuel me with excitement (jon fitch fights never do) and im not sure many people would really care about seeing a second fight between them!

Dana White has said Michael Bisping will be facing disciplinary action for spitting at Reveras corner after the fight according to one of the mma websites.....

Iv watched it back and it certainly looks as though he spits..

Hes walked straight into what Reveras camp wanted and they will milk this for all they can..has really put a dampener on an impressive performance and could have cost him a title eliminator fight with belfort/sonnen/okami..

Oh dear!!

he did all to lesnar when he did something similar, or worse after being mir, flipping off the crowd, swearing and slagging off a sponsor.

The thing is Mirs camp probably just let it go and didnt start sulking about it like reveras camp have and making it out as though there whiter than white....

He shouldnt have done what he did but like you say there has been worse behaviour and if hes suspended its a joke...

Regardless of the outcome it looks as though there a few who want a piece of him now..hel defo be getting a big name next!

How has Bisping come out of this whole episode as the bad guy? Rivera and his camp were a disgrace for a full 3 weeks up to the fight. They made a mockery of the UFC IMO. Bisping shouldn't have spit at them but I bet I would have had I been in a similar situation. No mention of Riveras antics, just Bisping this and Bisping that!

If that trash talk had been the other way round we would never hear the end of it!

Bisping has come out and said that Rivera had a go about him been English which in reality could be classed as racism, especially if the boot was turned on the other foot and Bisping had said some of the comments back at Rivera, there would have been hell on in all fairness. I dont think he has come out (Bisping) of the fight as the bad guy, opinion on the usual forums seem divided. Some say his antics where terrible and he needs a kicking (coming from the usual Yanks) and others say Rivera was out of hand with what he did, he fired Bisping up and got a beating, get on with it and move on (the majority of the other posters).

Interested to see who he gets next. Chael Sonnen has come out and had a pop to try and get some attention, but with him currently serving a ban for drugs that fight wont happen.

Vitor Belfort has also come out and asked to fight Bisping. This could be good for both fighters and trigger a title shot from both sides, whoever wins. I doubt Mike can beat Vitor but you never know what could happen. Even moreso if the fight is inked in the UK card in June, although I doubt Belfort would want to come over. Having said that, they do need a headline fight for the UK card and apart from Hardy, you wont get any more headline over here at the moment than Bisping.

Onto other matters & Strikeforce. Paul Daley had an easy weekend smacking the hell out of his opponent in BAMMA 5. He has now been given the title shot in Strikeforce for April 9th against Nick Diaz. Looks a great fight on paper, will Diaz stand and trade with Daley and give him a chance or wil he watch the Koscheck tape and think, its time to take him down and dominate. Either way, Id love to see Daley connect with a big right to see how hard Diaz's chin actually is.

Yeah easy win for Daley doing what he does best!!

I cant see Diaz standing with him if he does hel get knocked out imo.

The channel that has strikeforce now (is it primetime??) do you have to subsribe like espn/sky or is it pay per view??

Its PPV, think they are 9.95 a show.

oh right, cheers...thats ok.. didnt fancy subscribing to it just for Strikeforce,but might be worth getting the ppv for Diaz Daley.

Just read this morning that Zuffa who own the UFC have bought out Strikeforce!

I dont know were that would leave Paul Daley but also read that hes sulking about it saying that he may pull out of his title fight with Diaz and just fight for BAMMA.....As he does not want to put cash in there pockets.

If thats true,he would be making a big mistake, effectively ruining what was left of his mma career!

theres a 20 minute video interview on bloody elbow with dana, which says as things stand, they're operating still as two seperate entities, all contracts that are in place will be honoured and for the time being scott coker gets to run strikeforce with minimal involvement from zuffa.

Surely the long term plan will be to use Strikeforce as a second tier competion to the UFC with fighters such as Overeem,Silva,Diaz etc moving over?

business as usual, till contracts run out, then its free market and contract negotiations as normal,

strikeforce have a contract for about 2 years with showtime as well, who aparently aren't big fans of dana either.

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