The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner, Michael "The Count" Bisping, is looking to make some big changes as far as training goes. Bisping has found a new training partner for his upcoming fight against fellow TUF 3 participant Matt Hamill. Bisping will be training with UFC's light heavywewight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson up in Big Bear.
In a recent UFC.com article, Bisping rants and raves about his disapproval of upcoming opponent Matt Hamill. Bisping thinks that a win against Hamill will not only be a walk in the park, it would do nothing for him in terms of moving up in the light heavyweight division, Bisping actually believes it will be "a backwards step because he[I] won The Ultimate Fighter."
Bisping is hoping to send out the message to Hamill about his new training camp for the fight.
Bisping had this to say:“And if he’s hoping that I’m gonna cut corners in training he’ll be very upset when he reads this – because I’m going to Big Bear to train for a month with Rampage Jackson. That’s how keen I am to put on the performance of my life and smash this arrogant egomaniac to bits. I’ve done a complete 180 – I’ve never been so excited and motivated for a fight in my career because I am fighting a guy I can’t stand personally. No way am I losing to this egomaniac – and I am really excited to go to California to train with a fighter of the level of Rampage.”
Michael "The Count" Bisping, for those not too familiar, is also Cage Warriors Fighting Championship's former light-heavyweight champion, as well as Cage Rage's former light-heavyweight champion. Bisping holds an undefeated professional record of 13 wins and no losses. His most recent win was over UFC long timer Elvis Sinosic, whom Bisping defeated via TKO by strikes at UFC 70: Nation's Collide.
Matt Hamill, the elder of the two, was also on The Ultimate Fighter 3 alongside Bisping and also holds a perfect record of 3 wins and no losses. Hamill's latest win was against Rex Holman at UFC 68: The Uprising, winning in similar fashion as Bisping's most recent win, by TKO due to strikes.
Michael "The Count" Bisping is set to face Matt Hamill at UFC 75: Champion vs. Champion on September 8th at The O2 arena in London, England.
UFC 75 will be featured for free on Spike TV via tape delay.
I think Bisping should be able to walk over Hamill with relative ease, especially since he will be training with "Rampage" in Big Bear for this fight. Bisping has a significant advantage on the feet and is pretty attains a pretty well-versed ground game on top of that. However, I don't think a win against Hamill will be a setback to Bisping's UFC career, it'll just be another feather in his hat to boast about.
Bisping is becoming a premier player in the UFC's light heavyweight division and always putting on a good show, with all his wins ending by way of KO/TKO or submission.
The Lianger
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
UFC 75: Bisping to Square Off Against Hamill
Posted by Masson Liang at 11:21 AM
Tags: Matt Hamill, Michael Bisping, Quinton Jackson, UFC 75
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Bisping has always hated Matt and I think it might have something to do with the attention that Matt took from Bisping during the show. He was pretty animated about his displeasure with the whole Tito situation and having to hear Tito talk about how great Matt was all the time. He is out to prove that he is the best talent to come out of the TUF shows and he better back up all the shit he has been talking.
I hope Bisping rocks him...but I still think that The Count is a few years too young to be up there with Liddell, Rampage, and Shogun -- which is obviously where he feels he should be.
I am extremely pumped for this fight. I loved Bisping's fight against Sinosic at UFC 70 (which was free)...and I am definitely going to watch his fight at UFC 75 (which I think is free?). I think Bisping pulls this one out easily in front of his home country.
Yeah, The Count is still a very sloppy fighter in my opinion but a cool guy nonetheless. Hopefully training with Rampage will polish up his fight game.
He's still going to walk away with an easy win against Hamill IMO.
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