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#3 Rumor: Michael Bisping's retirement fight
As we’d previously reported, Lyoto Machida finally got back in the win column after struggling over the past few years. Machida proceeded to call out Michael Bisping in his UFC Belem post-fight interview—asserting that he has a ton of respect for ‘The Count’ and would like to face him in the latter’s farewell MMA bout.
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Bisping addressed the possibility of facing Machida in his retirement bout on a recent edition of his Believe You Me podcast. Bisping chimed in with a positive response to the Machida fight being next for him—
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“He just said we were supposed to fight a couple of times over the years and that it hadn’t happened and that basically, he had a lot of respect for me…I’ve got a lot of respect for Machida, I really do. As I said on Saturday, he’s one of the true martial arts specialist and one of the true martial artists that compete in the Octagon, so I have respect for him. Of course, there was the whole steroid issue, so I don’t want to rehash Saturday’s show, but there’s always going to be an asterisk over him.”
