{"id":342950,"date":"2020-03-02T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=342950"},"modified":"2020-03-02T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:49:49","slug":"michael-bisping-finally-admits-he-loves-yoel-romero-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-bisping-finally-admits-he-loves-yoel-romero-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping finally admits he loves Yoel Romero too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a brief period several years ago, it seemed as though Michael Bisping and Yoel Romero were on a collision course. At the time, Bisping held the UFC middleweight title, while Romero was the division&#8217;s top contender.<\/p>\n<p>During that phase, the pair exchanged quite a bit of trash talk. The most notable soundbite to emerge from their would-be rivalry, however, was a line from Romero that can&#8217;t really be called trash talk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love you, Mike,&#8221; Romero famously yelled to Bisping during a post-fight interview with Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bisping x Yoel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJpDogFyr2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the end, of course, Bisping and Romero never ended up sharing the cage. Bisping wound up losing the title to Georges St-Pierre. St-Pierre then relinquished the title, and Romero battled Robert Whittaker for the interim title, losing a hard-fought decision.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Bisping is retired. Romero, one the other hand, is days out from another shot at the UFC middleweight title, which is now owned by Israel Adesanya.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the conclusion of last weekend&#8217;s UFC Norfolk broadcast, the former champ finally conceded that he loves Romero too \u2014 despite their former rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1233989170907041794<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love you too, boy,&#8221; Bisping responded, flaunting a near-perfect Yoel Romero impression.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after this clip surfaced on social media, Bisping posted a follow-up comment, clarifying that he&#8217;s actually a &#8220;big fan&#8221; of Romero \u2014 now that he&#8217;s retired.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m a big fan and really enjoy him now I\u2019m retired. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4gPz8IuJ0f\">https:\/\/t.co\/4gPz8IuJ0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; michael (@bisping) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bisping\/status\/1234076455853752326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m a big fan and really enjoy him now I\u2019m retired.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Michael Bisping on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bisping\/status\/1234076455853752326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this comment 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 3\/2\/2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a brief period several years ago, it seemed as though Michael Bisping and Yoel Romero were on a collision course. At the time, Bisping held the UFC middleweight title, while Romero was the division&#8217;s top contender. During that phase, the pair exchanged quite a bit of trash talk. The most notable soundbite to emerge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":342956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10128,39610,10179],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Bisping finally admits he loves Yoel Romero too | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping finally concedes that he loves his former rival Yoel Romero too. 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