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[pa99ortiz]

According to UFC prez Dana White (via Fighters Only magazine), Michael Bisping would be ready for a title shot if he manages to defeat Dan Henderson following their coaching stints on The Ultimate Fighter: Team U.S. vs. Team U.K., which is scheduled to premiere on April 1st after UFC Fight Night 18. The only thing that would prevent an immediate title shot for Bisping in this scenario is if Anderson Silva is tied up in the light-heavyweight division.

As White explains:

“With the exception of Bisping, [Silva] has cleaned out the [middleweight] division. The logical step is for him to move up to light-heavyweight. One thing I like from boxing is that fighters often move up when they clean out their weight class — although apart from that I generally use boxing as an example of what not to do [with the UFC]."

Ever the good employee, Bisping is already preparing mentally for the possibility. As he tells FO:
“I think with Silva you have to rough him up a bit, get in his face and smother his work. I think that is where people have been going wrong, they give him the distance to work with.”

Oh man. Fighters talking about the proper way to beat Anderson Silva (and Fedor Emelianenko) never stops being hilarious to me. It should be noted that Dan Henderson actually had some early success against Silva with an aggressive rough-'em-up style during their fight at UFC 82 last March, but that only made the Spider angrier, and Hendo was obliterated in the second round. And as we saw in his last fight against Patrick Cote, Anderson Silva now has the power to blow-out knees using only his mind. So basically, Bisping had better start training with Freddie Roach, or he has no chance in this one.

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Easy there Bisping, you still have to get past Hendo first..

[Malice]

Title should be changed to:

"Michael Bisping Is One Win Away From Getting Mauled by Anderson Silva, but it doesn't matter because he won't win that one"

[b1uef1ow]

It's still disappointing that we haven't seen Silva vs Okami 2.

[SWIFTboy]

My new MMA motto:
I don't put anything past anybody. I refuse to ever be surprised by an MMA outcome again!

[Repenter]

Anderson Silva now has the power to blow-out knees using only his mind

...awesome...

[TN94z]

I actually thingk Bisping can beat Anderson, but he will have to not get "outscored" by Henderson to get there....

[Jiujeetkunedo]

Yah lol , Bisping is going to get fucked up

[foutch550]

Originally Posted by TN94z

I actually thingk Bisping can beat Anderson

Do f'n WHAT?

I think in the Anderson/Cote fight, Cote's jaw decided to save itself by willing Cote's knee to blow out instead of waiting for Silva to cave the jaw in.

[rodneykm]

Bisping will beat them both (Hendo / Anderson).

Don't say I didn't warn you (about a year ago actually).

[dbader08]

I think Bisping would have a chance against Silva, especially since the fight would probably be in 10 months to a year away, Bisping would have more time to improve and Silva would be a year older.

I could see Bisping landing more shots than most against silva

But still, Silva can end any fight at any point, Bisping can't really do that.