{"id":191697,"date":"2016-04-13T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T01:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=191697"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T01:13:02","slug":"michael-bisping-goes-off-on-a-bunch-of-steroid-using-middleweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-goes-off-on-a-bunch-of-steroid-using-middleweights\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping goes off on a bunch of &#8220;steroid using&#8221; middleweights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping was &#8220;not surprised&#8221; when news broke that Lyoto Machida was forced to withdraw from this weekend&#8217;s UFC on FOX event in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Machida fails drug test. In the words of Nate Diaz &quot;I&#39;m not surprised motherfuckers!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; michael (@bisping) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bisping\/status\/720383865676775424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dragon&#8221; was scheduled to battle Dan Henderson at the April 16 event, however Machida admitted to USADA that he had been taking a banned substance and was no longer eligible to compete.<\/p>\n<p>The news clearly angered the brash British fighter, as Bisping decided to point out that a large percentage of top-ten middleweights have been caught for taking performance enhancing drugs:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Middle weights with steroid use. Anderson, machida, vitor, hendo, Yoel,who am I missing? Almost the entire top ten.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; michael (@bisping) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bisping\/status\/720385089910124544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My son @GmaCallum should be a lawyer. He said, if Machida didn&#39;t know it was a banned substance, then why declare it to usada.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Damagecontrol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Damagecontrol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; michael (@bisping) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bisping\/status\/720406760259993600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bisping is coming off the biggest win of his career when he defeated former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva via unanimous decision at UFC London.<\/p>\n<p>Who would you like to see &#8220;The Count&#8221; fight next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping was &#8220;not surprised&#8221; when news broke that Lyoto Machida was forced to withdraw from this weekend&#8217;s UFC on FOX event in Tampa, Florida. Machida fails drug test. 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