I kinda like that they're giving Bisping a "can" for his first fight, for a combination of two reasons. He lost his last fight and he's making the biggest weight drop you can make for one division (20lbs). There's really no way to know what he'll look like at this weight, so putting him in there against someone like Cote could be a disaster. Bisping might take a fight or two to adjust to the speed of the middleweights.
This is what I think is funny about the whole thing. I hate Michael Bisping as a LHW. I didn't like his cocky attitude, his unearned acclaim, or the obvious writing on the wall that this guy clearly wasn't in the same league as Griffin, Hua, Jardine, Rampage, Liddell, Machida, etc.
But I LOVE Michael Bisping as a MW. he'll be an enormous MW, he should have the chin to take some punches from Silva, and he should be big enough to not get thrown around by Franklin or Okami. He's really ripe to be a top contender in this division. Maybe he can start earning some of that pub he's been getting.
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