I actually think Bisping’s tapdance routine will work against Kang. He will run around the octagon throwing jabs and being terrified to engage. As always, I will be rooting for Bisping to lose, but this time, I see him coming out on top. FYI, Kang opened as the favorite.

kang displayed terrific takedowns against belcher, he can probably take bisping down and beat his a§§

Kang should be the favourite as he is better everywhere than Bisping. I hope that if Bisping comes in backpeddling again that Kang takes him down and subs him or GNP’s him for the TKO.

I hope Kang has a smarter gameplan than Leben did and doesn’t just keep coming forward and getting countered.

shamo84, you’re right, Kang kas great takedowns and needs to take this down if his standup doesn’t do it. But he can remain standing for a bit, since Bispings weak punches have no chance of knocking him out anyways.

So the gameplan should be try to knock Michael out in the first, and if that fails, take him down and pund him in the second.

Don’t see this going to decision.

I am interested in seeing how Bisping performs in his comeback fight after suffering such a devastating loss….. added pressure if you ask me.

You are right. There is undeniably added pressure, especially fighting in front of the home crowd.

On the other hand, he has some relief in knowing he will never get cut, because the UFC needs him for the UK cards regardless of win or lose. He is the one drawing in the big crowds over there.

He isn’t drawing in the big crowds over here. Read some other message boards, most of us here are sick of seeing him on every card, especially main eventing.

I don’t get why he’s such a big draw. Yes, I know he’s a Brit, but the British fans are not so unsophisticated when it comes to MMA that they can’t recognize a mediocre fighter.

He is an undeniable draw in England, as seen by the fan reception and media coverage.

And yes PW, sophisticated fans undeniably will recognize he is mediocre, but he is easy to hype with only 2 losses on the record and national pride is often stronger than the obvious facts about a fighter.

well, i am italian and I couldn’t care less about sakara.. :-)

Skope, he isn’t a big draw! There’s no media coverage in England for him. Very few buy a ticket just to watch Bizzzzbing, it’s for the whole UFC name and very few arena’s sell out. If the UFC brought over Randy, Chuck, Lesnar, GSP to headline, then you’d see what a “draw” was over here.

If the UFC headline the MEN, europes second largest indoor arena with Bizzzzbing, they wont sell half the tickets.

Well sofar UFC 70 and UFC 82, both with Bisping, have sold out. I guess we will have to wait and see if bigger venues in Britain are planned.

Shamo, I like Sakara for making it possible to kick Leites out of the UFC only one fight after the title shot :) He is in my heart for that! No more lying on the ground and waiting for JJ specialists, unless you are waiting to be woken up like Maia after the Marquardt punch. (Nothing against Maia, he comes to fight.)

UFC 70 was more to do with CC headlining in his #1 contender match for the HW strap and AA in support if you ask me and Bizzzzbing had nothing whatsoever to do with 82.

The UFC wouldn’t dare try and go to the o2 with Bizzzzbing headlining, they wouldn’t sell 5,000 seats. Trust me on that.

Sorry meant UFC89, not UFC82. He sold that one out. 15000+ seats. So why wouldn’t he sell 5000 in the o2 Arena… Doesn’t make sense.

But its all speculation anyways, we will have to wait and see what the UFC has planned for Britain in the future.

I am just saying that even if Bisping loses his next 2 to mediocre oponents, he will still not be cut. He is worth more in Britain than another non-british fighter at his skill-level. And his can-inflated record is still marketable.

No I agree, he wont be cut and he’s handy for the UFC to fill a gap on the card. My point is he’s not a headliner, never will be and people dont buy a ticket just to see him, he’s just someone patriotic knuckle scrapers can whoop at coz he’s local.

Think with 89 we were promised some major main event (yet again) which never materialised (yet again) and that’s the reason I bought my ticket in advance. If I knew the card was headlined by Bizzzzbing when tickets went on sale then I certainly wouldn’t have bothered going, that’s the impression I got from a lot of people in the venue too.

North South divide my friend, he can sell Birmingham and the North, but the majority of his fans are in the North and London’s too far for many to bother going, especially if Bizzzzbing’s headlining coz it wont say much for the rest of the card if he is. That’s why I reckon he’d be lucky to shift 5000 tickets at the o2.

bisping wont be cut ever. he is good enough te be a mid-top level ufc fighter anyway.

Bisping will win this in Manchester. There is no way that Dennis Kang will knock him out.

Sad

This can’t be the main event. It will be the featured bout in my opinion. If the UFC was going to put Bisping in a main event right after his devastating KO loss, than they would have to match him up with a bigger name than Kang.

If Wanderlei’s face was ready, Bisping/Wanderlei would have been an acceptable main event for a British card, but Bisping/Kang is simply not worthy.

I agree but what is gonna main event VM???? 106 is a week later, they’re supposed to be putting on a show the week before too to counter SF, they dont have many options.

Bisping should never main event anything more significant than a TUF Finale.

Agreed P-Dub

Does anyone have a name for Bisping’s pitter-patter stand-up equivalent of LnP?

SnP aka Stand and Pray ? Its too simple, but nothing better comes to mind.