Michael Bisping Says Chris Weidman Tried to Manipulate The Rules at UFC 210

– During a recent episode of his podcast, Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping was critical of Chris Weidman’s UFC 210 loss, feeling that Weidman tried to manipulate the rules…

“The real talking point isn’t whether or not they were sloppy and how shit Mousasi’s takedown defense was, and, yet again, how sloppy Chris’s striking is. The controversy and the talking point is the end of the fight. “Weidman went in for yet another telegraphed takedown attempt, Mousasi kind of sprawled, kind of had him in a headlock position and from here, Chris tried to manipulate the rules. … If a person has one hand on the floor, in the past that was a downed opponent. What people used to do was, they used to touch the floor with that hand and then they couldn’t be kneed in the face, when realistically, they didn’t need to put that hand on the floor, they were totally manipulating the rules so they couldn’t be kneed. At a weigh-in, you try to make weight any way you can. At a fight, you’re supposed to be a man and fucking fight, not manipulate the rules and put one hand on the ground or two hands on the ground. Be a man, stand up, fight, go out there, tooth and nail, bite down on your mouthpiece and lets fucking do this.

I fought Anderson Silva. At the end of the third round, my mouthpiece came out, he dives up in the air, knees me in the face, opens stitches all over my face — I needed about 20 stitches in my face — I’m on the floor. As he kneed me, the buzzer went. Did I roll around on the floor going ‘mummy, mummy, please help.’ No! I got up, wiped the blood off my face, stuck my mouthpiece in, took a breath, had a sip of water, then went back out and fought. I didn’t roll around like a little b**ch on the floor hoping that the commission would give me a win by default. That’s what he did! Just like Daniel Cormier tried to manipulate his weight with that towel, Chris Weidman tried to manipulate the outcome of that fight due to that legal knee.”