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27/01/10 - Bisping "knocking his sparring partners out"
Michael Bisping is on top form in training and is looking “more dangerous than he ever has” according to a source in his Wolfslair camp. Bisping faces Brazilian legend Wanderlei Silva at UFC 110 on February 21st and the clash is already being talked up as a Fight of the Year contender.
Silva has lost three of his four fights in the UFC and is open about desperate for an impressive win. Bisping is looking to erase memories of that KO loss to Dan Henderson at UFC 100 and add an icon’s name to his win list.
The Brit last fought at UFC 105 in Manchester, England and looked impressive as he demolished Denis Kang in two rounds. But he won that fight by TKO and in the run-up to this fight he has been talking of his desire to add an emphatic one-punch KO to his highlight reel.
Bisping has been engaging in hard sparring sessions over the last couple of weeks and our source says he “has knocked two of sparring partners out that we brought in for him. I mean clean out, proper sleepy-time knockouts” . One of those two sparring partners is known to have outweighed him considerably.
Fighters Only has also learned that professional boxers and MMA fighters of considerable experience have been employed as sparring partners, and the reports from these closed-door sessions - which are conducted at fight or near-fight intensity - indicate that Bisping is at his all-time peak as a fighter.
Criticism of Bisping’s punching power is a common theme among his detractors, but expectations are apparently running high in the Wolfslair that this fight with Silva will result in a big knockout to silence all the doubters.
“Wanderlei is a bit of a one-trick pony. He is very good at that one trick, but he is not the Wanderlei that dominated PRIDE FC. To be honest, his style plays into Mike’s hands and everyone on the team is very confident. A lot of people will have to eat their words about Mike after this fight,” our source predicted.
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