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There aren’t too many fighters in the UFC as outspoken as middleweight contender Michael Bisping, so it should come as no surprise he blasted Alan Belcher in his latest blog for Yahoo! Sports.
Belcher, who had called out both Bisping and middleweight champion Anderson Silva in recent months, suffered an embarrassing loss to Yushin Okami at UFC 155 and “The Count” was in attendance at the event to watch the bout first hand.
“Belcher lost every minute of every round in a fight so boring I was afraid my brain was going to melt and start to dribble out of my ears,” he wrote. “It was like someone detonated a nuclear bomb of boredom in the arena – everyone in the seats around me was playing Angry Birds.”
While Bisping lays it on pretty thick, it’s tough to make an argument that Belcher-Okami II was exciting. Okami consistently gained top control and maintained the position, but did little to try and end the fight as Belcher struggled to get out from bottom for three rounds.
Bisping was just getting started on his anti-Belcher rant though, as he had plenty of more material up his sleeve.
“What delusions of grandeur Belcher has. This is a guy who didn’t fight for a year after giving himself career-threatening eye-strain by watching too much internet porn, and he thinks he’s god’s gift to MMA.”
Belcher was inactive between May 2010 and Sept. 2011 after suffering a detached retina in his right eye in Aug. 2010. Despite the severity of the injury, “The Talent” managed to make a full recovery.
Bisping also thought it was ridiculous Belcher could beat him one-on-one, given their record against common opponents.
“He even told UFC president Dana White that after he beat Okami, he’d fight me on January 19 if something happens to Belfort. This is a guy who got his arse kicked by two guys I smashed (Yoshihiro Akiyama and Jason Day) but he thinks he can not only beat me on a couple weeks’ training, but also assumed he was getting passed Okami, who is not to be underestimated.”
This marked Belcher’s second loss to Okami, erasing a four-fight win streak and putting him at the end of the middleweight contender line.
Meanwhile, if Bisping defeats Vitor Belfort at UFC on FX 7 later this month, UFC president Dana White has confirmed he will get a title shot.