{"id":108909,"date":"2014-08-19T18:37:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=108909"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:41:02","slug":"bisping-slams-le-calls-him-a-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/bisping-slams-le-calls-him-a-phony\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisping Slams Le, Calls Him A Phony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/dana-white-weve-done-everything-wrong-for-13-years-now-we-fixed-it\/nichael-bisping-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90132\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nichael-bisping-png.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"nichael bisping png\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nichael-bisping-png.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nichael-bisping-png-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nichael-bisping-png-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCung Le is a bit of a phony. I went to Macao for the launch press conference with Cung Le in June, and I was very polite, very professional. I exchanged all the pleasantries, gave him all the small talk as you are supposed to in these situations and I even went as far as pretending to be absolutely blown away that he\u2019s apparently friends with Channing Tatum,&#8221; Bisping said. &#8220;Basically, I went out of my way to be nice to him and everything was very civil. We promoted the fight, shook hands, and went back home to train for the fight.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I see him on UFC.com doing a Fight Club Q and A and he\u2019s talking a load of bollocks about me. Basically, he\u2019s jumped on the same old, boring bandwagon everyone else who fights me does with is to say what a smack-talker I am while, as always, they are the ones who talk crap first. What a phony. &#8230; One fan at the Q and A asked him what his game plan was and he said \u201cFlying tornado kicks and thunder and lightning!\u201d What does he think we are going to be doing in the Venetian Macao? Playing Tekken 4? It was another cheesy, embarrassing line from a cheesy, embarrassing actor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bisping is turning up the heat ahead of his UFC Macau bout against Cung Le this Saturday.  Bisping called Le a phony while doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/bisping-and-le-set-to-collide-in-macao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media rounds<\/a> ahead of their UFC Macau bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCung Le is a bit of a phony. I went to Macao for the launch press conference with Cung Le in June, and I was very polite, very professional. 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