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Respect for Brother Chris for getting that W BTW.
as crazy as it sounds, by the UFC rankings, he might beYou're not a number one contender Chris.
damn, that's right, he got injured and bisping filled in.....I had completely forgotten they had booked Rockhold/Weidman 2 tbh.
So you did this to the MW division, damn it Chris.
I'd honestly favour all of those guys, including bisping, over weidman. he didn't look good tonight.as crazy as it sounds, by the UFC rankings, he might be
CHAMPION : MICHAEL BISPING
1 Robert Whittaker (Interim Champion)
2 Yoel Romero
3 Luke Rockhold
4 Jacare Souza
5 Chris Weidman
romero just lost, rockhold his last fight is a loss, jacaré just lost..... so it woudln't be THAT far fetched to give weidman the title.... what a mess this division
It's the truth. Bisping has never been a Top 5 middleweight. He was close to cracking the Top 5 ahead of UFC 100 when he fought Dan Henderson in the middleweight title eliminator, and we all know how that went for Bisping. A couple of years later he came close to moving into the Top 5 but Chael Sonnen beat him in another middleweight title eliminator. Over the next 3-4 years, he alternated wins and losses, cementing his status as a gatekeeper just outside of the Top 10 of the division. The combination of a hometown robbery of a decision in a fight where he was clearly KO'ed and UFC's need for a short-notice replacement gifted Bisping a title shot. Luke Rockhold didn't take Bisping seriously because he had easily defeated Bisping 19 months prior, and Bisping seized the opportunity and made him pay, once again catapulting to fringe of the middleweight Top 5. Bisping went on to take a drubbing at the hands of 46-year-old Dan Henderson, who was ranked outside of the Top 10, in a fight that could've been stopped on multiple occasions, but the referee chose to allow it to continue and Bisping was gifted another razor thin decision by the judges, thanks to a strange interpretation of scoring rewarding point fighting. The poor performance versus a middleweight ranked outside of the Top 10 has resulted in Bisping falling out of the Top 10 despite holding the belt.