Mellanviktsmästaren Michael Bisping tog sig senast an och besegrade veteranen Dan Henderson via ett enhälligt domslut, då de möttes i Manchester under UFC 204. Alla höll dock inte med om domslutet, och en som är riktigt förbannad över hur domarna dömde är Henderson själv.
Bisping har dock ett och annat att säga till de som anser att han inte försvarade sitt bälte, via både twitter och Champions.co:
@danhendo u dont win a fight by cowering and being a punchbag for 23 minutes. You should be pissed at yourself for backing up the whole time
— michael (@bisping) October 21, 2016
He’s as tough as old boots, and I knew that going in. He’s still got it, that’s for sure. That said, the fight pretty much went how I thought it would, apart from those two right hands. Obviously, I didn’t plan on those, but outside those rights, he didn’t really do much. My boxing coach said, ‘You can’t win a 25-minute fight by winning two minutes of the action.’
You don’t judge fights on damage. That damage came from two blows. They were big blows, but they didn’t finish me. They didn’t even come close. You can’t ignore the other 23 minutes of the fight that I controlled.
Anybody that thinks Dan won that fight…quite frankly, you guys are crazy.
Dan can try to come up with whatever excuses he wants to discredit my win, the fact of the matter is, he should be gracious in defeat. I won, fair and square. He put on a great performance, I won’t deny it. Well done to you, Dan, but guess what? It just wasn’t enough. They got it right on the scorecard.
Vem Michael kommer att få ta sig an härnäst är i dagsläget oklart, men själv pratar han om ett möte mot ingen mindre än Georges St-Pierre.
