Michael Bisping is in a conciliatory mood ahead of this weekend’s UFC London event.
Bisping has been embroiled in a feud with UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal — who faces Darren Till in the main event — related to a confrontation in advance of a UFC event two years ago but with Bisping’s retirement precluding settling their differences in the cage, he says perhaps it is time to end their hostilities.
“I hope I see him in London. I hope I see him in London so I can just walk over and say, ‘Hey, listen, can we just end this bullsh*t?’ Because as I’ve said, I don’t know the guy!” Bisping said to his Believe You Me podcast via MMA News.
“I don’t know him and he doesn’t know me. I’m not against Masvidal anymore. I’ve got no issue with him. I never had.”
“Let’s see how he behaves in London. Now that I’m with ESPN and not Fox, when we used to travel to the arenas for Fox, Fox always put us up in a separate hotel – a very, very nice, five-star bougie hotel I might add. Now we’re in UFC hotel, so we’re surrounded by all the fighters and stuff like that. So no doubt I’ll be seeing him around fight week. So let’s see how all that goes. If there’s another interaction, if he’s trying to start a fight with me in the lobby like he did in New York, and in Shanghai, and in London. [But] I think that ship has sailed.”
Masvidal, though, will have another Englishman on his mind this weekend when he faces Darren Till in the featured bout inside London’s O2 Arena. Gunnar Nelson will face another English fighter, Leon Edwards, in the evening’s co-main event.
