Michael Bisping har aldrig varit rädd för att uttrycka sin åsikt och i denna veckas sändning av Believe You Me skrädde han inte på orden angående ett säärskilt känsligt ämne.
Diskussionen om Tyron Woodley började när Bisping refererade till hur Woodley vid en presskonferens under föregående vecka hade sagt sig vara villig att i framtiden gå upp en viktklass för att utmana antingen Bisping eller Gerorges St-Pierre om mellanviktsbältet.
Som oftast tvekade inte Bisping med att genast gå till attack:
Here’s something you can’t take out of context, Tyron Woodley can kiss my arse. He’s constantly calling me out. Did you see that once again, Tyron Woodley saying yet again that he wants to step up and fight Michael Bisping. After the Demian Maia fight he was like, you know, ‘I’m out here, I’m fighting the best and we got Michael Bisping ducking the top contenders, faking a knee injury and avoiding Yoel Romero.’
I’m not even going to go into how that’s wrong on many levels, but he did that then and once again after this fight he’s saying he wants to step up and fight me or GSP, and that’s fair enough, if he wants to do that, but it ain’t going to happen, let’s be honest.
UFC-mästaren i mellanvikt valde sedan att understryka sin stora respekt för Woodley där han menade att denne har mycket i sitt liv att vara stolt över just nu:
Yeah, I’ll be working with him this weekend and I’m trying to turn this into talking s*** about him, because I like Tyron, he’s a good guy, He’s funny and all this good stuff and you’re absolutely right, he’s got the world at his feet and he’s the champion of the world, he’s good looking, he’s athletic, he’s explosive and on top of all that he’s getting work in movies, he’s an actor, he does tons of work on Fox, he’s got a very, very busy workload.
So I don’t why, you’re right he’s feeling a little sorry for himself because he was getting booed. In his last fight he was getting booed and he wasn’t happy about that, but he’s also getting put on the good fight cards. He fought on the same card as Conor [McGregor] at UFC 205, then he fought on the same card as Jon Jones. The guy has been on mega, mega fight cards and the bigger fight cards you’re on, you got to realize that you get a piece of the prize and part of the pay-per-view money as the champion. He’s been on a lot of these cards as well so he really doesn’t have anything to feel sorry about.
Till sist berörde podcastens programledare Luis J Gomez det känsliga ämnet om rasism inom UFC i och med att Woodley tidigare berättat att detta existerar inom tävlingsorganisationen. Bisping hävdade att från hans perspektiv existerar inte något sådant inom UFC.
Did he say that he feels that racism exists within the UFC? Because that’s a pretty strong quote and I’ll be honest, I can’t see that. Of course, I’m not black, I’m white, I’m English so you know, although these days white people seem to, we suffer from racism, it’s almost like it’s a sin to be white these and it’s like we’re over privileged because of colour of our skin.
I’ve never experienced racism so I can’t empathise with him and I can’t put myself in his shoes. But I will go out on a limb and say, come on, the UFC want to put on the best fights and I don’t think that the colour of someone’s skin comes into it. Maybe I’m wrong!?
