Get over it.
Michael Bisping has mixed feelings about Vitor Belfort joining the UFC Hall of Fame.
If thereâs anyone who would have a valid protest to Belfort having his name enshrined in the pioneer wing of the Hall during International Fight Week on June 28, it would be Bisping.
The former UFC middleweight champion, who is a member of the Hall himself, received a serious eye injury in his January 2013 loss to Belfort at UFC on FX 7. The repercussions of a kick ultimately led to Bisping completely losing his vision, and now he famously has a prosthetic eye.
Injuries are an inherent risk of combat sports, but what makes the situation with Bisping even worse, is that Belfort was competing while being granted a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) for Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT), which essentially was a then-legal performance-enhancing drug that was outlawed and banned from the sport in February 2014.
Bisping understandably still has issue with Belfort for everything that happened. It makes the legacy of âThe Phenomâ highly complicated, but if Bisping can remove all emotion, he said Belfort belongs in the UFC Hall of Fame.
âWhen we were in Des Moines, Paul Felder had a little piece for the (video) package where we speak about the greatness of the people getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. They said, âWe wonât ask you Mike, for obvious reasons.â I said, âYou know what? I donât care. Iâll do it,ââ Bisping told MMA Junkie. "When you look at it and remove all the emotions from it, the man was the UFC heavyweight champion of the world at 19. He then became the light heavyweight champion. He almost became the middleweight champion. Heâs the closest thing weâve had to a three-weight champion.
âWas he a massive cheater? Of course. Did he take a lot of steroids? Of course. Were there a lot of other people doing that at the same time. Absolutely there was. I get it.â
During his storied career, Belfort owned UFC gold, won the UFC 12 heavyweight tournament and racked up an all-time UFC record 13 finishes in the first round of his fights.
There are other athletes in the UFC Hall of Fame who have accomplished far less than Belfort, and had their own controversies as well. For that reason, Bisping can accept that Belfort, despite his faults, earned his place.
âI lost an eye because of this guy,â Bisping said. âHe can stick his Hall of Fame up his ass. But he does deserve it. You canât deny what he did inside the octagon. You just canât deny it. If thatâs not a Hall of Fame career, I donât know what is. Whether you like it or not, he deserves it.â
He should probably just get in front of a mirror, look himself in the eye and let go of this short-sighted grudge. Heâs acting like a one-legged man in a binocular contest.
Fuck spitsping in his limey self absorbed ass. I donât buy his new public persona. Fuck him
Pillowfists Bisping is in the HOF?
Lol
Hendo beat him twice.
Spitsbing can suck a fat brazilian cock.
Why do you guys dislike Bisping for this? Ha ha. Pretty good answer actually.
He lost an eye because of his own negligence. It wasnât like vitor gouged him or did something malicious. He threw a legal strike which lead to an eye issue which Bisping ignored and trained with for a significant period before it worsened and lead him to his current predicament.
Guys like rampage who trained with spitsping in Britain have also alluded to him not being the natural athlete he likes to portray himself as.
Vitor is far more HOF worthy than Bisping.
Bisping always standing on his soap box, when he was just as juicy as everyone else. Only difference was he didnât get caught.
Have wondered about someone being so outspoken about others using PEDs. Bisping had great cardio to the point where it seemed like EPO use could have occurred.
Exactly. And then you can claim to have never done steroids and still be telling the truth technically
Yes. He was always specific with so and so uses âsteroidsâ.
Do these guys really have such a hard time with losing that theyâll categorize other fighters as cheaters while theyâre cheaters themself.
Thereâs no way Bisping had a career resurgence 20 fights into his UFC career without something.
âWell he got cheating, so he was cheating more than I was.â
Thanks for keeping an eye on it, Mike
I think most of these guys that get on their high horse about it have used something at some point. Its way too accessible and there are way too many reasons to do it.
I honestly understand him being upset, but at the same time he accepted the fight knowing Vitor was juiced; it was very evident around that time.
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