Michael Bisping Claims He's Slowly Winning Back U.S. Fans

I really doubt it.

I am a Bisping fan… a buddy of mine recently established, i love fighters people hate. Love the Diaz Brothers, Love Gilbert Yvel, Love Bisping, Love Anderson, Love Rampage, Love BJ… Hate Koscheck!!!!!

That is all.

I like him, he’s funny and colourful. Sometimes he sounds like a prick, but if would get enough tv time, I’d also sound like a prick, most people would.

Does Bisping really believe that?

I myself have never had anything agasint Bisping. His personality has never rubbed me the wrong way like it seems too for so many other MMA Fans. That being said I really don’t root for him eather. As for the whole Wand Rematch talk I don’t understand at all where this seems from it was a clear 29-28 victory for Silva end of story there is no dam rematch needed. I want to see bolth fighters especially wand this late in his career fight other fighters.

The funny thing is everyone that I was watching the fight with last week all admitted we were behind Bisping until the Hamill win. To celebrate with the arrogance that he displayed over such a close fight (that he lost) really turned my stomach.

I like Bisping. I don’t think he’s anywhere near as arrogant as other fighters out there. He comes across as modest more than he does arrogant in my opinion.
I don’t really understand where all the hate comes from.
I think he can win over the fans eventually and I hope he does.

I actually like Bisping alot more than I used to. He is never gonna win the American crown over because of the Transatlantic love hate relationship with England.

Why don’t you sit this next one out, stop talking for a while.

I think that one thing is that Bisping is hard to get behind simply because he is in mid-tier to upper-mid-tier purgatory. He is well-rounded, but not great at any one thing, and it doesn’t really seem like he will get over that hump to be a Title contender. I have noticed that after getting KOed by Henderson, Bisping has come off as much more humble.

I liked the guy on TUF and liked a lot of his fights at 205. For me, the opposite of what he is saying is true. Slowly but surely my “fandom” is eroding.

From one of his first fights in the UFC I remember him entering the arena and thinking "He’s not a tough guy but he’s trying to play one. Really, really trying hard to portray what a tough English “gangster” type would be like if they fought in the UFC. But he isn’t one, and we can tell and so it’s weird to watch this."

You can see it in his facial expressions, it’s the kind of thing you can’t hide.

I think alot of fans see that and that’s why they don’t think him – nothing to do with his birthplace.

He simply isn’t genuine, he’s self-conscious and we can all tell he’s trying to project himself as someone he’s not.

Perhaps this is a lost in translation thing, as being a brit myself I really disgree.
Something I rather like about Bisping is that he seems to avoid the horrible extra-in-a-Guy-Ritchie-film ‘hardman’ cliches that all right thinking people hate so much. To me (and I don’t live too far away from Lancashire) it’s always seemed that Mike has never presented himself as anything but what he is: a bright, lower-middle class lad from a little town up north. As far as I’ve seen he never alludes to any ‘gangster’ credentials and doesn’t talk about having a “chequered past” or anything like that in interviews.
The only UK MMA fighters that spring to my mind as being guilty of what you describe are Lee Murray and Paul Daley. As fighters I am (or was in Lee’s case) a big fan but personality wise I always got the vibe form them that you obviously do from Bisping. Like I say, maybe it’s a cultural thing?