{"id":268558,"date":"2018-01-24T05:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=268558"},"modified":"2018-01-24T05:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:53:23","slug":"michael-bisping-received-bout-offer-loved-ones-dont-want-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-received-bout-offer-loved-ones-dont-want-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping has received a bout offer, but his loved ones don’t want him to take it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having lost the UFC middleweight title to Georges St-Pierre<\/a>, and come up short in an abrupt and ill-advised comeback fight against Kelvin Gastelum, former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping has been planning to retire when the UFC touches down in London this March 17.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Bisping has now received a bout offer for this card, and while he’s tempted to accept it, his family and friends would prefer he just calls it a career now, and forgets about partaking in one last fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a fight in the works for myself, and I\u2019ve got until the end of the day to tell the UFC whether or not I\u2019m taking it,\u201d Bisping explained on his podcast Believe You Me<\/a>\u00a0yesterday (h\/t MMAFighting<\/a>). \u201cThere\u2019s an offer that\u2019s been made to me, and all fairness to the UFC, I\u2019ve been kind of taking my time to give them an answer so I\u2019ve got until the end of the day to give them an answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just debating whether or not I take the fight. For me, whether or not those people can see, I have a bad eye. I have a bad eye and my wife doesn\u2019t want me to continue fighting, and my manager doesn\u2019t want me to continue fighting. I see out of that eye but not as well as I used to, and I\u2019m still a young man so it\u2019s kind of the reason I may hang the gloves up. My wife and manager and friends and people close to me say, \u2018Mike, what do you want to do that for? You\u2019ve done it. You\u2019ve had the belt.\u2019 I\u2019ve done it. I\u2019ve done what I set out to achieve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of want to go do one last fight in England and they\u2019re like, \u2018So what? Five years from now or a year from now, people are gonna forget about all that and you can injure yourself even more.\u2019 but you can injure yourself in any fight, whether or not you\u2019re at 100% health or not. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re up to and I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Bisping then explained why there’s a temptation to take another fight, against the wishes of his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s the payday,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got some lawsuit bullsh*t that\u2019s still going on. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re aware of this but lawyers are very expensive. Also, one doesn\u2019t want to go out on my last fight, that being the lasting impression on my MMA career. Also, I kind of feel that I owe it to the U.K. fans because they were so supportive throughout my career. I always envisioned in my mind having that retirement fight in London and there it is on a plate. I just need to take it but everyone around me is telling me not to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the fight,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s not a case of the time or the opponent or anything like that. It\u2019s either am I going to continue fighting or am I not? I promised my wife a long time ago that I was done fighting, promised a ton of people, but I still seem to be slogging on and doing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we\u2019ll have an announcement [today], maybe we won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Would you like to see Michael Bisping fight one last time?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 1\/24\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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