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13/07/09 - Bisping vows to get back on title track
Mike Bisping has vowed to come back stronger after his second-round KO loss to Dan Henderson at UFC 100 on Saturday night.
The pulverising right hand from Henderson caused the first stoppage loss of Bisping’s career; his only other defeat was a split-decision loss to Rashad Evans at light-heavyweight.
“I honestly don’t know what happened to me out there. Henderson won it fair and square and I have nothing but praise for him. I was found wanting and I know it,” Bisping told British newspaper The Star.
“I will just have to accept what the organisers say in their rules about when I fight next and take it on the chin. But I do know that I have the ability to bounce right back and succeed in my aim of lifting the world title,” the Wolfslair fighter said.
“I have seen people like my training partner ‘Rampage’ Jackson lose fights in one or two rounds and still go on to become one of the best light-heavyweight fighters of them all, so I am not disheartened in any way.”
Henderson has already had one shot at Anderson Silva’s middleweight belt but was unsuccessful. The UFC has been equivocal when the subject of a second title shot for Henderson has been brought up, and it may be that he has to face the winner of Demian Maia-Nate Marquardt later this year to earn it.
His KO of Bisping was compounded by a second diving punch on the prone fighter’s jaw, which Henderson admitted afterwards was unnecessary as he knew Bisping was unconscious.
“Normally I’m not that way in fights. I know if the guy’s out, I tend to stop,” he said in his post-fight interview. “I hit him hard but I got that last one in just to shut him up a little bit.”
FO Staff
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