Bisping - “When the UFC was first created, all these martial arts magazines, they claimed that the whole thing was bull-shido.”
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Michael Bisping, the former UFC Middleweight Champion, has told the ‘craziest’ anecdote in the promotion’s history. There are few things that elicit as many fan theories and discussions as sports. “What might happen if a wrestler faced a boxer?” was a popular question during the twentieth century. While a variety of disciplines existed, including judo, karate, Muay Thai, and Vale Tudo, as well as better-known disciplines like boxing and wrestling, no one had put them to the test to discover which would be the most successful in a bout pitting styles against each other.
Although the UFC has now solidified itself as the most profitable and recognisable in martial arts, some tried to restrict its growth during its founding and early days. Michael Bisping highlighted one such occurrence in a recent video posted on his YouTube channel. “The Count” harked back to the early days after reaching number one in his countdown of the five strangest tales in UFC history, which includes Nick Diaz and Joe Riggs’ hospital brawl, Bruce Buffer and Frank Trigg’s elevator battle, and Dana White’s near-boxing bout with Tito Ortiz.
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Michael Bisping said, “When the UFC was first created, all these martial arts magazines, they claimed that the whole thing was bull-shido. Why would martial arts magazines claim such a thing? Well, according to Bisping, to protect their own falsified narrative surrounding ancient techniques. Listen, you gotta feel for these guys. Imagine that you’re the editor of a ’90s martial arts magazine. You have spent years convincing people that the bull-shido artists and the kung-fools are the baddest men on the planet.
“You have promoted flying kicks, the five-finger exploding death punches, and dim mak (Touch of Death) as legit martial arts techniques. You are making a fortune selling classified ads for ninja stars and over-the-price booklets promising the secrets of the shinobi. But then, all of a sudden, along comes the UFC and all your claims are exposed! Like a pervert in a raincoat,” added Bisping. “Yes, I’m sorry, the dim mak wasn’t real. The flying kicks, they never land, and the secret of the shinobi… the secret of the shinobi is that it’s a load of bollocks.”
