No, Fly doesn’t seem angry, he seems observant.

Fly is right on the money. When Bisping was on TUF I rooted for him to win. I thought he was pretty cool and I liked his attitude. Ironically, one of the reasons I liked him was because he seemed mature. I guess I should say, he SEEMED mature. As a coach he:

1 – Gloated every chance he got…EVERY chance he got. He was constantly running his hole and if anyone spoke back he acted like he was put upon.
MB: “You’re an areshole.”
Other guy: “And you are a dick.”
MB during interview: “He was bang out of line saying that.”
What’s the British word for hypocrite? Oh, yeah…hypocrite!

2 – Like Fly pointed out, Bisping actually MISSED one of his fighters fights. WTF, man! I used to teach college and can tell you that if I had set a test for students and not shown up when they took it I would have gotten fired. I kept expecting him to tell us ‘Me wife got in an accident’ or something. I was actually worried and told my wife that I hope everything is all right and that he wouldn’t miss a fight for anything short of an emergency. I was TOTALLY disappointed in him that he missed it because he was ‘a wuttle sweepy daddy!". Come on, he is a grown ass man. I don’t want to get up in the morning and go to work either but I do because that is what responsible adults do when they are serious about their craft!

3 – Bisping got all pissy about that ‘racist’ comment. Listen, I’m white AND southern. I am nooooo fan of so-called ‘reverse racism’ (although anyone with a brain knows racism is racism…nothing ‘reverse’ about it). I don’t cotton to the idea that if a black guy says ’i’ll beat your white ass’ as not being racist when people say a white guy saying ’i’m going to beat your black ass’ is racist (to me neither is racist because you are not insulting a race but a descriptive attribute of your opponent…like telling someone with long hair ’i’ll kick your hippie ass’ but I digress). So, if Johnson would have said something racist I would have been all over it. However, he was not insulting Bisping’s (and my) race. He was making fun of the fact that Bisping looked like he had never seen the sun (and coming from England that may be the case). Bisping was waaaaay too sensitive about it. If they had been playing at night and Johnson was playing and got upset at Bisping for saying ‘He has an unfair advantage because he’s harder to see’, I would have been on Bisping’s side. Bisping took a comment that he was so white that a flesh-colored band-aid was darker than him, and turned it into a ‘you whites are nonathletic’. Again, a thin skinned jackass.

4- Throwing water into Johnson’s face. You make it out like this was, in any way, Johnson’s fault and he had it coming. Well, from where I stand, Bisping took the Merry Men (what, he couldn’t come alone?) and confronted the US team. That in itself was aggressive, really. He could have just came over and told Henderson that his guys didn’t want to do it. Instead he made a much bigger deal out of it (see a trend yet?) and brought a bunch of guys. He was clearly putting on a show and being a loud-mouth, attention seeking git. He was ‘sort of playful while being a duche’. Johnson was spouting off too, which he should have just left to Henderson. Again, another case of Bisping being a loud mouth instigator. Anyway, he walks buy the guy 20 minutes later and squirts water in his face. Come on, man. Then Bisping says ‘It was only a little water. It rains every day in England’ Yeah, I bet if I walked by Michael Bisping and squirted a bottle of water in his face he would just laugh and say ‘its only water…it rains every day in England.’ Not to mention that he is SUPPOSED to be a coach and authority figure. Ridiculous. You said he appologized but you know, so what. He goes and does the interview later where he makes the ‘rains in England’ comment. He didn’t mean it.

5 – When his ‘best’ fighter showed his true colors and realized in the ring that he didn’t want to fight for real, Bisping literally couldn’t take it. Hey, I would be upset too. He was disappointed in his fighter and disappointed that team US caught up with them. No problem. But to get pissy because the US team is cheering their victory and storm off, kicking a door that he apparently forgot how to open (do they have doors in England, Mike?)…well, just immature and childish. This is the guy who had been gloating and goating all season. He can dish it out bigtime but can’t take even a hint of it coming back at him. Matter of fact, chants of USA – USA – USA were not chants of UK SUCKS – UK SUCKS…they were a bunch of guys on a team that were celebrating the fact that their fighter, whom they gave basically no chance to even be competitive much less win, overcame some serious odds and won the fight. BIsping again disappointed me and acted like a spoiled brat.

6 – and Finally – Bisping tells Faulkner ‘no need to apologize to me, no I just hate it for you’ then precedes to take a few guys out and bad mouth Faulkner. WTF dude?!? Say it to his face or don’t say it at all.

Like I said in my original post, I WAS a fan of Michael Bisping. I am stunned and saddened by his immaturity, lack of leadership, and duchetasticness. Really let down by him (as my two novelettes attest).