{"id":339061,"date":"2020-01-24T07:36:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=339061"},"modified":"2020-01-24T07:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:36:32","slug":"michael-bisping-opens-up-on-injury-before-first-luke-rockhold-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-bisping-opens-up-on-injury-before-first-luke-rockhold-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping opens up on injury before first Luke Rockhold fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold, both former UFC middleweight champions, went 2-0 across two entertaining grudge matches. In the first fight, Rockhold came out on top via submission. In the second, Bisping won via first-round knockout, winning the middleweight belt in the process.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hMvRhCghkSk\">UFC Unfiltered<\/a> podcast to promote his new book <em>Quitters Never Win: My Life in UFC<\/em>, Bisping divulged that he was actually injured before his first fight with Rockhold.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mlxdVf\">\u201cThe fight with Rockhold, a few days before I flew out to Australia I got head-butted in training and I had stitches in my eye,\u201d Bisping said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/1\/24\/21079897\/morning-report-michael-bisping-details-injury-that-took-place-before-first-fight-with-luke-rockhold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cThis is all in the book. Obviously, everybody knows I\u2019ve got one bad eye that pretty much, well, I have a fake eye in there now so it doesn\u2019t work. [Laughs]. But my good eye, I had stitches all on the top of the eye and they actually took the stitches out as I got to the arena because they said, \u2018Mike you can\u2019t fight with stitches in your eye.\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"mp6HD9\">\u201cSo they took the stitches out and at the start of that fight against Rockhold, he headbutts me and opens the cut and I couldn\u2019t see a f*cking thing. It was like somebody taking a tub of paint and pouring it on a wind screen and then you put the windshield wipers on and it will wipe the paint off but it will just smear. So the blood was going into my eye, I would wipe the blood like this, and then I could kind of see for a second, and then the blood would run into my eye again so I would wipe it again and then while I was doing that, boom, I got head kicked,&#8221; Bisping added. &#8220;I had no idea what f*cking happened because I couldn\u2019t see sh*t. But I couldn\u2019t say that at the time because I still wanted to carry on fighting, you know what I mean? So when I got my opportunity for a rematch, even on two weeks\u2019 notice, of course I f*cking took it because I knew I could beat that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this story from Michael Bisping?<\/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 1\/24\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold, both former UFC middleweight champions, went 2-0 across two entertaining grudge matches. In the first fight, Rockhold came out on top via submission. In the second, Bisping won via first-round knockout, winning the middleweight belt in the process. 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