Countdown To UFC 199: Luke Rockhold vs. Michael Bisping
The time-honored UFC middleweight championship will once again be up for grabs when newly-crowned champion Luke Rockhold meets Michael Bisping in the main event of this weekend’s (Sat., June 4, 2016) UFC 199 from The Forum in Inglewood, California.
Rockhold and Bisping already have a somewhat infamous history with one another, as a long battle of trash talk lead to Rockhold eventually submitting “The Count” in the main event of November 2014’s UFC Fight Night 55 from Sydney, Australia.
The former Strikeforce champion was set to take on Chris Weidman, the man whom he just took the title from at last December’s UFC 194, but a neck injury to Weidman meant Bisping was one of few legitimate choices due to his recent win over all-time great former champion Anderson Silva.
So even though Bisping has already lost to Rockhold, he finally has his title shot, and that means “The Count” is going to run his mouth the way few can in the lead-up to this Saturday night. If that works out, however, it remains to be seen, as few are giving him a shot with recently dominant Rockhold a monstrous favorite.
We’ve seen that anything can happen in MMA, especially in recent months. Get prepared for the middleweight title fight with the full “Countdown to UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping” video right here:
