| Michael Bisping Ready for Saturday! |
MANCHESTER, England — Australian Elvis Sinosic reckons it took him 30 hours to get to Manchester. Local boy Michael Bisping only needed to drive 40 minutes.
The two fighters are worlds apart in more ways than one as they prepare to face off Saturday at UFC 70: Worlds Collide (Spike TV, 7 p.m. on tape delay) in a clash that pits The King of Rock n Rumble (Sinosic) against The Count (Bisping).
Bisping, 28, won Season 3 of The Ultimate Fighter and boasts a 12-0 record. The UFC hopes his winning smile and gift of the gab will help him become their poster boy in Britain.
Bisping is all too happy to play the role.
"First-round TKO, about 3:22 into it," Bisping said by way of prediction for Saturday. "Sending Elvis to Heartbreak Hotel."
Sinosic is a 36-year-old veteran whose record is a modest 8-9-2. Fighting as the underdog in the favourite’s backyard is nothing new to him so he knows the score Saturday night.
"It’s just another day in the cage for myself," he said.
"It’s work as usual.
"With Michael, of course, this fight’s a big fight for him. He’s being groomed for future things. He’s fighting in front of his hometown crowd … He’s going to have a lot of pressure behind him. And he’s got to make sure he doesn’t let it get to him because it’s not going to get to me."
Saturday’s card offers a trip around the globe with fighters from Australia (Sinosic), Belarus (Andrei Arlovski), Brazil, (Edilberto Crocota, Gabriel Gonzaga, Lyoto Machida, Assuerio Silva and Fabricio Werdum), Canada (Edmonton’s Victor Valimaki), Croatia (Mirko Filipovic), England (Bisping, Terry Etim, David Lee and Paul Taylor), France (Cheick Kongo and Jess Liaudin), Germany (Dennis Siver), Italy (Sakara) and the U.S. (Junior Assuncao, Matt Grice, David Heath).
| " | "First-round TKO, about 3:22 into it," Bisping said by way of prediction for Saturday. "Sending Elvis to Heartbreak Hotel." |
Well im back!
I Found this on a website, it involves TUF 5:
I won my first fight against Gabe Rudiger (Godzilla) and lost my second fight (a dec to Nate Diaz)
It was an awesome time and the show is going to be funny as hell.
I guess you cant win them all
-OMA ™: Still undefeated in the streets
Oops. I wonder if Zuffa knows about this.
UFC 70: Bisbing and the sinsic fight is going to be great. A ledgend vs. a undefeated cage fighter in his prime. I’m looking forward to seeing somebody get Knocked the F*** ou!