{"id":246331,"date":"2017-08-09T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=246331"},"modified":"2017-08-09T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:55:55","slug":"michael-bisping-replies-vagina-luke-rockhold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-replies-vagina-luke-rockhold\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping issues scathing response to &#8220;vagina&#8221; Luke Rockhold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold is not a fan of the way Michael Bisping has been comporting himself as the reigning champ. In fact, he believes Bisping should be stripped of the UFC middleweight belt, as his only defense thus far has come against an aging Dan Henderson, and his next defense will pit him against former welterweight champ <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rockhold made the case for the UFC&#8217;s stripping of Bisping in a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/story\/_\/id\/20237872\/ufc-rockhold-explains-branch-matchup-says-bisping-stripped-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cBisping has fought nobody in the top 10 for the last year-and-a-half and still isn\u2019t going to fight anybody in the top 10. Where does that put him? I think they should pull the title from guys like that who don\u2019t fight anybody at the top. They pulled the title from [Germaine de Randamie] because she wouldn\u2019t fight the No. 1 contender. Why is this any f\u2013king different?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bisping has now fired back at the former champ Rockhold. His profanity-ridden retort occurred on the latest episode of his podcast, Believe You Me (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/08\/michael-bisping-luke-rockhold-joke-ufc-strip-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHere\u2019s a guy that\u2019s out there campaigning for me to be stripped. Campaigning for the guy that knocked him out cold to be stripped, rather than saying, \u2018Listen, let me fight him, let me get a rematch, let me beat him.\u2019 He\u2019s asking the UFC to strip me. First of all, they did an interim title fight, as we all know. Now Robert Whittaker is injured. I feel like I make this point all the time, but I accepted a fight against Yoel (Romero) or Whittaker, who are both the No. 1 and the No. 2 contenders. Whoever won that fight is supposed to fight me, Whittaker won and he\u2019s injured, so shut the fuck up.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195651\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rockhold199.png\" alt=\"Luke Rockhold\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rockhold199.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rockhold199-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rockhold199-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rockhold199-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019m going to fight Georges St-Pierre, it\u2019s going to be great, everyone is going to love it. It\u2019s going to be an awesome fight, and then I\u2019m going to fight Robbert Whittaker, who is the No. 1 contender. It\u2019s not going to be you, Luke Rockhold, that got knocked the (expletive) out cold in three minutes. Your head was bouncing around like a (expletive) pinball machine. You\u2019re fighting David Branch. I don\u2019t know who David Branch is. By all accounts he\u2019s a very tough guy, coming off another organization. \u2026 Shut the (expletive) up, go fight Billy No-name and win. Get yourself back in the title talk, buddy. Don\u2019t talk (expletive) from the sidelines. \u2026 You are a joke. Luke Rockhold, you are a (expletive) joke, you are a vagina. You got a problem, come and see me.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold are 1-1 across two fights, with Rockhold winning the first by submission, and Bisping winning the second by first-round knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/9\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold is not a fan of the way Michael Bisping has been comporting himself as the reigning champ. 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