{"id":272480,"date":"2018-03-14T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272480"},"modified":"2018-03-14T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:00:49","slug":"amid-luke-rockhold-trilogy-buzz-michael-bisping-isnt-sure-hell-even-fight-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/amid-luke-rockhold-trilogy-buzz-michael-bisping-isnt-sure-hell-even-fight-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Luke Rockhold trilogy buzz, Michael Bisping isn&#8217;t sure he&#8217;ll even fight again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, the MMA world has been abuzz about a potential trilogy fight between former UFC middleweight champions Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold. Yet while <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-denies-receiving-contract-for-trilogy-bout-with-dipsht-luke-rockhold\/\">the beef between these two former champions is clearly still sizzling,<\/a>\u00a0Bisping isn&#8217;t sure it&#8217;s a fight he wants. In fact, he&#8217;s not even sure he&#8217;ll ever fight again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to fight again,\u201d Bisping said on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yY98oAbog_U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Believe You Me<\/em><\/a> podcast (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/latest-news\/michael-bisping-honestly-fight-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMANytt<\/a>). \u201cI was going to fight in London, which is happening this weekend. I was supposed to fight but we couldn\u2019t get the deal done and now it\u2019s giving me more time to reflect. I don\u2019t know, maybe I will, maybe I won\u2019t [fight again].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I say I don\u2019t know&#8230; there\u2019s a lot of things going on in my life right now,\u201d Bisping continued. \u201cI\u2019m very busy and of course you\u2019ve got to want it and I do want it. I do enjoy it and I do miss being in fight camp and I think that\u2019s one thing that all athletes have is the trouble of finally walking away. I find myself whenever I speak to athletes and former athletes, I ask them about their transition because it\u2019s something I\u2019m curious about but for me when I was younger, fighting was just a way to make money and I\u2019ve been somewhat successful in that department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m always scared of letting it go and saying goodbye because once you close the door, you close the door and you can never go back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yY98oAbog_U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the future is nebulous for the former UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping. Would you like to see him fight Luke Rockhold for a third time before he hangs up the gloves?<\/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 3\/14\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, the MMA world has been abuzz about a potential trilogy fight between former UFC middleweight champions Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold. Yet while the beef between these two former champions is clearly still sizzling,\u00a0Bisping isn&#8217;t sure it&#8217;s a fight he wants. 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