{"id":275981,"date":"2018-05-10T07:47:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=275981"},"modified":"2018-05-10T07:47:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:47:54","slug":"michael-bisping-i-havent-made-it-official-yet-but-im-probably-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-i-havent-made-it-official-yet-but-im-probably-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping: “I haven\u2019t made it official yet but I\u2019m probably retired”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few months, former UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping has been searching for a suitable opponent for the final fight of his illustrious career. During that time, the British legend has been linked to fights with Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida, and Luke Rockhold, and called out by everyone from Brad Tavares<\/a> to Gokhan Saki.<\/a><\/p>\n

From the sounds of it, however, Bisping might not return to the cage at all, and opt instead to ease into his well-deserved retirement.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Luke Rockhold] is a fight that does make sense, but I\u2019m retired,\u201d Bisping said on his Believe You Me<\/a> podcast (transcribed by Jim Edwards for MMNytt<\/a>). \u201cEveryone is calling me out, but I have no intention of fighting, let\u2019s be honest. I\u2019m retired. I haven\u2019t made it official yet but I\u2019m probably retired. Of course, when I say probably, that still gives me a window to come back but I\u2019m probably retired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bisping then explained why he’s holding off on making his retirement official.<\/p>\n

“If I say I\u2019m retired to the UFC, I come out of the USADA testing pool and then if I want to fight again, I have to go six months of testing I believe,\u201d he said. \u201cSo if I retire and un-retire, I\u2019ve got to do six months of testing prior to being able to fight again. So obviously there\u2019s that. There\u2019s that little hurdle there. I guess in the mean time all I\u2019m doing is wasting USADA\u2019s money because they\u2019re showing up trying to test me when I\u2019ve got no intention of fighting.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother thing, if I\u2019m going to retire, I want to try to make a bit of a bang about it,” Bisping continued. “I\u2019ve just signed the deal to do a documentary with a Canadian production company called the Imagination Park and if I\u2019m going to retire, I\u2019ll go be a guest fighter or something like that and do it with a bang. Do it like that as opposed to just tweeting to Luke Rockhold at 4 in the morning, pissed out of me head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Bisping is currently on a two-fight losing streak. The most recent of these losses came in a ballsy, short-notice contest with Kelvin Gastelum. The next most recent came courtesy of Georges St-Pierre in a fight that marked the end of Bisping’s reign as UFC middleweight king. Bisping defended the middleweight title once, defeating his rival Dan Henderson by decision. He won the title with an incredible, first-round drubbing of Luke Rockhold.<\/p>\n

Over the course of his Hall of Fame worthy career, Michael Bisping has picked up wins over names like Rockhold, Henderson, Anderson Silva, Thales Leites, CB Dollaway, Cung Le, Alan Belcher, Brian Stann, Jorge Rivera, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Chris Leben, Matt Hamill, and many others.<\/p>\n

If this is indeed the end of the road for the former champ, we’d like to congratulate him on an incredible career!<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 5\/10\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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