Somehow Michael Bisping Thought He Deserved To Win Against Wanderlei Silva At UFC 110

For many who watched Michael Bisping’s defeat to MMA legend Wanderlei Silva on Saturday night, the Brit was lucky to make it to the final bell after almost being submitted AND knocked out in the final seconds of both the second and third rounds.

I know of no one who after seeing the fight thought that Bisping deserved the nod from the judges.

Well, except for Michael Bisping that is. He thinks he deserved to win…

‘It was a close fight,personally I thought I won the first two rounds.’

What makes Bisping think he deserved to win is anyone’s guess. Surely Bisping and his team must know that for all his jabbing and moving, Silva inflicted the most punishment?

‘Wanderlei did a great job, congratulations to him, full credit him on winning the fight…….personally apart from the guillotine-and I got dropped in the third-but apart from that as far as round two I didn’t really have any offense come my way. I felt I clearly won those first two rounds.’

Can you imagine the fan backlash had the judges given the fight to Bisping?

At the end of the day, Bisping simply didn’t do enough to win. He never really took the fight to Silva. Aside from the first round when he was more active, his performance against Silva was poor. Nothing like his performance in his fight against Denis Kang where Bisping got clipped by the Canadian and subsequently got mad and administered an ass-whooping.

Bisping has no one to blame for his defeat other than himself. He was too cautious and showed Silva too much respect. It seems to be a fatal flaw in Bisping’s makeup, on his day I really believe he has the tools to beat anyone in the middleweight division but it seems that everytime he steps up in class, he fails to take his self-belief with him.

In his three defeats against Rashad Evans, Dan Henderson and Wanderlei Silva, Bisping has not once shown the aggression that makes him such a formidable force against lesser opponents. In all three losses, Bisping’s gameplan was to jab and move and invite all three to hunt him down. Not once in those three fights did we see the real Michael Bisping.

So, instead of crying foul, Bisping and his team should take stock in this latest setback and realize that if he’s ever to reach the top of the UFC’s middleweight division then he’s going to have to take some risks in the big fights. He’s got to stop trying to play it safe because when all is said and done, playing it safe has seen him lose three times.