{"id":334668,"date":"2010-02-18T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T13:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-220431:1"},"modified":"2010-02-18T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T13:56:10","slug":"bisping-camp-mocks-disrespects-wanderlei-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334668","title":{"rendered":"Bisping camp mocks, disrespects Wanderlei Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__17\/ept_sports_mma_experts-535110520-1266474979.jpg?ymjPnsCDU5d5451s\" \/>The UFC&#8217;s &quot;Countdown&quot; show once again did a great job of getting the juices flowing for UFC 110. Cain Velasquez and his trainers Bob Cook and Dave Camarillo, show nothing but respect for Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. That wasn&#8217;t quite the case from Michael Bisping&#8217;s camp with regards to Wanderlei Silva. During Countdown to UFC 110 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2010\/2\/17\/1314456\/countdown-to-ufc-110-nogueira-vs\" >video<\/a>) Bisping <strike>trainer<\/strike> manager Anthony McGann begins by mocking Silva&#8217;s zest for pleasing the fans and also seems to poke fun at his broken english (23:15 mark).<\/p>\n<p>McGann goes on to denigrate Silva&#8217;s accomplishments over the years.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Wanderlei didn&#8217;t learn nothing in Japan,&quot; said McGann. &quot;He has never changed in<br \/>\nwhatever it is, 50 million fights. It&#8217;s the same thing. He&#8217;s not<br \/>\nevolving. He&#8217;s not getting his game up.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And seems to think the Wolfslair has Silva (32-10) figured out. He points to Quinton Jackson&#8217;s knockout of Silva at UFC 92. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;ve been here before. A year ago, same [expletive] different day,&quot; said McGann (36:56 mark).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t Jackson do most of the work on that one? Also keep in mind Jackson had been with the Wolfslair for less than four months before that fight. Bisping&#8217;s wrestling coach Zach Light also says Bisping is willing to go toe-to-toe with Silva.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We have no problem trading punches with Wanderlei Silva. Quote me on that,&quot; said Light. &quot;You&#8217;re gonna see it. We&#8217;re gonna put our chin down and put our hands up. We&#8217;re gonna slug it out with this guy.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.combatlifestyle.com\/pics\/view_image.php?id=88518\" ><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__17\/ept_sports_mma_experts-733847883-1266476746.jpg?ymLrnsCD0ffeW8Nf\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McGann ripped Silva&#8217;s striking style.<a name=\"remaining-content\"><\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Wanderlei throws wild, crazy hooks. For someone like Michael who&#8217;s seasoned, they&#8217;re not the hardest things in the world to avoid.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t Bisping one fight removed from being put to sleep by the wide-punching Dan Henderson at UFC 100? Bisping joins in the discussion saying he was compared to Silva as a young fighter and that he has little respect for Wanderlei&#8217;s Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The belt doesn&#8217;t mean [expletive] to me. I eat black belts for breakfast,&quot; said Bisping.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bitterness grew during yesterday&#8217;s final UFC 110 press conference (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\/index.cfm?fa=EventDetail.home&amp;eid=2628\" >video<\/a>). Silva said he was going to kick Bisping&#8217;s ass (12:10 mark). Bisping said he didn&#8217;t understand where the animosity coming from and that he hasn&#8217;t two words about the guy. A minute later he took a shot at Silva (23:10 mark).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;You do need to win fights in this though Wanderlei, and you haven&#8217;t been doing that lately,&quot; Bisping.&quot;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Silva fired back by saying most of the guys in the business don&#8217;t like Bisping. The Brit responded by saying, &quot;he didn&#8217;t give a [expletive].&quot; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of trash talk from a guy with UFC wins over Elvis Sinosic,<br \/>\nDenis Kang, Matt Hamill, Josh Haynes, Chris Leben, Charles McCarthy,<br \/>\nJason Day and Eric Schafer. Those fights are a combined 24-24 with the<br \/>\npromotion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC&#8217;s &quot;Countdown&quot; show once again did a great job of getting the juices flowing for UFC 110. Cain Velasquez and his trainers Bob Cook and Dave Camarillo, show nothing but respect for Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. That wasn&#8217;t quite the case from Michael Bisping&#8217;s camp with regards to Wanderlei Silva. During Countdown to UFC 110 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}