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Michael Bisping promises the "demise and destruction" of Cung Le at UFC Fight Night 48 on Saturday
Aug 20, 2014 - 3:00:24 PM
Michael Bisping promises the "demise and destruction" of Cung Le at UFC Fight Night 48 on Saturday
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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

Michael Bisping's return to action on Saturday in China is a bit of a must-win matchup, as he's got to put forth an impressive performance to have any hope of making a run up the UFC's middleweight ladder again.

To that end, Bisping is targeting his bout against Cung Le with a little bit of malice, and says the UFC Fight Night 48 card will see the end of Le in the cage.

"I've thrown friendliness out the window - I'm in fight mode now," Bisping said in an interview with MMAFighting.com. "You know how everybody likes to talk s*** about me, about [how much of] an a**hole I am, this and that? Cung Le jumped on the bandwagon with that kind of thing. I went out there to Macau for a press conference and I was very cordial with the guy, all pleasantries. He doesn't have a reason to say a bad word about me but he jumped in on the bandwagon."

"So I'm going to have to brutalize this guy. That stupid cheeky little smirk on his face? I'm going to knock that clean off his face. He'll look like an absolute fool when he's laying there on the floor in a pile of piss and blood. He's in over his head, he's outmatched, he's outreached…I'm a better actor, I'm a better fighter, I'm better looking, and there's nothing this guy can do to me. Tune in on Fight Pass, because we're all going to see the demise and destruction of Cung Le."

Of course, it's far from the first time we've heard similar sentiments from Bisping, only for him to fail to follow through. He claims things are different this time around, and believes it's been a mental issue in the past more than anything.

"My boxing coach, Jason Parillo sat me down a couple of weeks ago after a sparring session, and we had a really good talk," he says. "Jason said, 'listen, Michael, I believe in you. I believe you can go out there and be a world champion.' He said, 'look at the way you fought in sparring. Look at how you handle guys. Look at how you completely outclass all of your opponents.' He said, 'please, we need to get that to go out there and really crossover to your performances and show the world. I believe in you, and I know you believe in yourself, let's just go out there and f***ing do it. It's no good doing it in the gym; the gym doesn't matter. You've got to do it on fight night.'

"So I'm really focused on the mental side of things with this camp. Maybe that's somewhere that I have struggled a little bit in the past, I've let demons creep in and things like that. This fight, this camp, I'm in a very, very positive mind frame. I'm performing well, I'm hitting harder than ever. I've been working on things. The last fight the guy wanted to take me down, so never got a chance to display what I have been working on. My punching power is through the roof. I'm still hoping to be world champion."

Penick's Analysis: It's hard to take Bisping seriously when talking about how much he's going to destroy an opponent. It's just not something he's been doing, so until it actually happens it's not something anyone will actually expect to see. He's got a good boxing base, but the power has not been proven to be there on a consistent basis. That's not to say he's incapable of stopping Le, but he'll have to do much better than he has the last couple of years if we're going to see anything remotely close to the "demise" of Le on Saturday.

[Michael Bisping art by Grant Gould (c) MMATorch.com]


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