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[♪♪♪]

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MICHAEL:
I've had people
write me off constantly.

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Constantly throughout my
career, saying I wasn't good

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enough, wasn't strong enough,
just wasn't skilled enough.

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ARIEL:
Bisping has
reached his plateau.

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Your career is not going in
the right direction any more.

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MICHAEL:
And all these fucking
journalists and all these

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people that wrote me off and
talked shit about me after

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what I've been through?

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Go fuck yourself.

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They don't know my journey.

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They don't know
what I'm capable of.

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They don't know my mindset.

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They don't know how
mentally tough I am.

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VIN:
You forget how much he's
had to sacrifice to get to

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where he's gotten.

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DANA:
Bisping is a fighter.

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He doesn't care who you are,
how tough you think you are,

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how tough you really are.

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If you think you're better
than him, you think you can

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beat him?

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Bisping's down to find out.

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This is what he was born to do.

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MICHAEL:
There isn't
anything after.

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There isn't a back-up plan,
because if this doesn't work,

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if this doesn't pan
out, I'm fucked.

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I've got nothing.

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[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

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[applause]

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MICHAEL:
When I was younger,
I never really thought

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about the future.

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Didn't care about anything.

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All I wanted to do
was have a good time.

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That all changed once
my family came along.

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Fortunately, the same things
that got me in trouble as a

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kid - well, they would set me
up for a life that I had never

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thought possible.

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[♪♪♪]

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MAN:
Almeida's here.

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MICHAEL:
Quick.

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Quick.

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Quick.

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MAN:
It happens.

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One picture and that's it.

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One picture.

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MICHAEL:
Alright.

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I gotta go.

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MAN:
[indistinct]

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MICHAEL:
Sorry, guys.

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MICHAEL:
Back home in England
as an analyst for the UFC.

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The UFC never told me that
they'd be announcing my

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induction into the Hall of Fame.

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I was under the impression
that I was just going to say,

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"Hello," and wave to a
few of the home town fans.

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MICHAEL:
I'm hoping that I
get a good reception,

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but you never know.

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They might be, "Ugh".

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You know.

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Little golf clap.

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[clapping]

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You know.

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[laughing]

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MICHAEL:
Ah yeah.

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Or are like, "Listen, mate.

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You retired.

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Fuck off.

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We don't care any more".

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You know?

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[applause]

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MICHAEL:
Thank you.

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[applause]

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MICHAEL:
There's our moment, Adkins.

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MICHAEL:
Oh shit.

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Wow.

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JON:
There's only one
Michael Bisping, and there

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is never going to be another.

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DANA:
Look how long
he lasted in the UFC.

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It's tough to win a world
title, and he's done it all.

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DANIEL:
And Michael Bisping
truly deserves to be in the

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UFC Hall of Fame.

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[applause]

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MICHAEL:
As a Hall of Fame...

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MAN:
Yeah.

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MICHAEL:
I'm in the Hall of Fame?

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MAN:
You're getting inducted
into the Hall of Fame.

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MICHAEL:
Thanks.

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Goodnight, guys.

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MAN:
Selfie!

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MICHAEL:
Yes.

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Alright.

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MAN:
[indistinct]

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[♪♪♪]

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MICHAEL:
I was raised in Clitheroe.

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You know, England.

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Bangers and mash.

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Sticky toffee pudding.

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England.

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You know, growing up as a
young lad in the Northwest

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of England, well, it had
its ups and its downs.

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MARGARET:
The Iron Lady
of the Western world.

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MICHAEL:
Put it this way,
there was a lot going on

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culturally in
England in the 90s.

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REPORTER:
Negotiations
to end the siege-.

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REPORTER:
Strangeways jail
in Manchester is said to have

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reached a critical point.

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REPORTER:
Tonight, we look at
the growing concern over acid

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house parties, which attract
thousands of young people

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in the region.

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MICHAEL:
Every weekend,
there'd be a news report about

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an illegal rave happening
somewhere in the

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Northwest of England.

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REPORTER:
The police view is
that these are purely

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criminal events.

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REPORTER:
They promised that
within a month these parties

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will be history.

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MICHAEL:
And of course, the
world was shocked about the

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tragedy, breaking news
of Princess Diana.

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REPORTER:
Now there is
confirmation that Diana,

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Princess of Wales, has
died in that car accident in
Paris.

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NOEL:
You know, growing up in
the UK, especially at times

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when, like, I grew up
when Mikey grew up.

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You know, it wasn't easy.

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Working class areas.

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Most people come from
humble beginnings.

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The rich people is a
very small percentage.

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MICHAEL:
A lot of towns in
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throughout England, you know.

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Great places to live, but not
a lot of opportunity there.

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MICHAEL:
This is
my mum, Kathleen.

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She's from Ireland.

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A tough lady that
had a hard life.

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This is Jan, my Dad.

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He ran the house.

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A no-nonsense father that used
to be a sniper in the

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British Army.

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MICHAEL:
And this
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That was my bedroom, up there.

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And there was 8, 8 of us here.

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This is a 4-bedroom house, you
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room, and then two kids
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SHIREEN:
It was just a very
busy household, and we didn't

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have a lot of money, so I
think there was stress

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with that.

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JAN:
Well, it's not easy being
a parent, and especially when

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you got 5-6 children, 'cause
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best with all of 'em.

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SHIREEN:
He had to retire from
the army a lot sooner than

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he wanted to due to injury.

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My mom didn't work.

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She was a stay at home mom.

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MICHAEL:
You know, to be
honest, I mean, yeah, you know,

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money was tight, but I
never remember it being tough,

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you know.

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It was just the way it was.

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JAN:
Michael was the youngest
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and he was always
competing against his older
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You know, even at Christmas,
you know, how much was spent

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on Christmas presents
for his older brother.

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And Michael would then price
everything he had got for

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Christmas and say, "Well, next
year, I want you to spend the

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same amount of money on me".

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You know, and he'd even
add inflation into it.

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SHIREEN:
If you have any words
to describe Michael,

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it's, "Fun," and he's
really, really funny.

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JAN:
It's not easy as a child
growing up in our situation.

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You know, I wasn't wealthy,
and, but we managed, and

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I like to think they had
a pretty good childhood.

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MICHAEL:
These snobby kids
would make fun of us,

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and I just said to myself,
"Well, that's it now".

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You know.

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"Anyone that carries on
talking shit, then, then I'm

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gonna take care of it," and
that's what I started doing,

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you know, and it felt nice.

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This one guy in particular
was, you know, bullying me,

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and I said, "I'm not gonna
fucking take this any more".

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You know.

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And I punched him in the face.

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It was good.

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It was rewarding, you know,
because they changed

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their tune.

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They shut the fuck up.

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There's always idiots around,
you know, so getting into

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fights when I was younger,
unfortunately when I was

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a kid, yeah, there
was a lot of that.

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KATHLEEN:
He was always full
of life, full of energy.

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He didn't know what he was
gonna do next, and my husband

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thought it'd be a good
idea to put that energy into
Jiu-Jitsu

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and, you know, a hobby.

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JAN:
The culture at the time
said that this guy one day

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will be a world champion in
martial arts, and I thought,

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"Well, if you see that, then
I'll keep bringing him down

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to train".

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MICHAEL:
You know, I never
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a kid.

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When I was at school and we
picked teams, they picked

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that guy, that guy,
that guy, that guy.

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There'd be me at the end with
like the disabled kid,

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and they'd pick the disa...

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I'm like, "Come on.

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For fuck's sake.

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Are you serious?"

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So I was never a gifted
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but I could fight.

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I mean, I started doing
martial arts when I was

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8 years old.

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Fighting was something
that I liked, to be honest.

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ALLAN:
It was 100% effort or
nothing, and he always

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gave 100% effort.

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He would keep coming for you.

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He's take a few shots, and
he's still coming at you, and

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get hurt, and still come at
you, because his attitude was

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absolutely phenomenal.

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JAN:
Say, when he was 11, was
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13's and winning it.

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The under 16's and winning
it, and invariably winning the

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under 18's and doing well
in the adult competition.

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CHRIS:
His dad, his brothers,
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well-known around Clitheroe.

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You know what I mean.

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You didn't fuck with him.

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SHIREEN:
Be careful, because
I've heard that Bispings

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are violent.

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MICHAEL:
It was a
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KATHLEEN:
Well, it was really strict,
because I think of the army,

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and he used to shout,
and people all could hear him,

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and they used to
say, "Oh my god.

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Jan is off again,"
wouldn't they.

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SHIREEN:
If I ever wanted
anything, I would always

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go up, "Dad.

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Are you in a good mood?"

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He'd be like, "Yeah.

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Why?"

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I'm like, "Well, I wanted
to ask you something".

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MICHAEL:
Yeah.

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People always say,
"What was your dad like?"

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and I'm like, "Well, he was
a bit of a psycho when

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he was younger.

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He's a calm guy now.

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He's very, very calm, in
fact," but when he was

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younger, definitely
a bit of a maniac.

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Everyone in the neighbourhood,
they were all shit

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scared of him.

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I remember one time, my
brother was in the school

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football team, and it
was Saturday morning.

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We went to watch him play, and
we're standing there on the

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sidelines, and he fouled
somebody, you know, and the

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referee called foul, gave him
a yellow card, and my dad's

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like, "What the hell?

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What the fuck are you doing?"

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And he shouts something out to
the referee, and the referee,

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you know, says something
back to my dad.

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Storms onto the pitch.

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I'm like, "Jeez, Dad.

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What are you doing?

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No way".

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Boom.

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Cheeky little head-butt,
drops the referee.

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I'm like, "Dad,
what are you doing?

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I'm never gonna live this down.

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He walks off, he grabs
me, "Come on, Son.

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Let's get in the car,
get out of here".

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[laughing]

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So yeah.

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There you go.

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That's what my dad was like.

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That's just one of, you know,
many, many instances I can go

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to, but you know, as I say,
you know, "I love my dad".

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He had a quick temper.

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I've got a quick temper.

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SHIREEN:
But because of that,
I think, I feel like we all

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got the reputation for like
being tough, and I'm not.

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[laughing]

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MICHAEL:
You know, I never had
a lot of friends and stuff,

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but then, when I started
fighting, you know, it kind of

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makes you more popular, so,
you know, I kind of gravitated

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towards that a little bit,
because, you know,

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I don't know.

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All of a sudden I had
a bunch of friends.

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MAN:
Yeah.

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[laughing]

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[indistinct chatter]

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MICHAEL:
By the way, I'm
talking 16-17-18 years old.

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You know, when you're that
age, you don't have any

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of the cares.

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MICHAEL:
Fuck you,
mother fucker.

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MAN:
You can't,
you can't say that.

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[laughing]

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MICHAEL:
Eh!

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KATHLEEN:
With his friends
at the time, they would say,

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"Michael, this one's
done this to me.

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This is, can you sort it out?"

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And Michael used to think, "Oh.

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I'll sort it out for you,"
but he ended up in trouble

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then himself.

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SHIREEN:
And that's like
just typical Michael.

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You know, just kind and
always looks after you.

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MICHAEL:
Growing up, all
people cared about was

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football and going to the pub,
and if you combine the two,

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the football with the pub and
the drinking and the booze,

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you know, it's a good time.

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The match finishes.

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Everyone's screaming.

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They're chanting.

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They're throwing their
beers in the air.

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"Will Grigg's on fire".

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[♪♪♪]

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MICHAEL:
And of course, you know,
when you combine the

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English's passion for football
and you throw in a few beers,

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then what's gonna happen?

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Well, shit's gonna kick off.

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Simple as that.

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[♪♪♪]

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REPORTER:
And once again
British soccer supporters

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found themselves at the centre
of a shameful display of

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running battles, knife
attacks, and sheer

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hooliganism.

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SCOTT:
You know, Mike's from a
tough part of the world, that

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the further up north you go,
the bigger and meaner

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they get.

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That's the good thing about
England, I think, personally,

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because we don't
have a gun culture.

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You're more likely
to just get into a scrap.

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There was a problem, you had
a fight, you settled it with

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your fists, and that's
the way we did it.

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DAZ:
It's funny, 'cause we'd
go, went around Clitheroe

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filming for Reebok, and we're
walking down the street going

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to this set, and it's only me
and Mike, and he says,

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"See that pub there, Daz?"

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I said, "Yeah".

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He said, "I got
thrown out of there.

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See that pub over there?

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6 doormen started on me.

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You see that pub over there?

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Well, this happened.

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You see that pub there?

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That happened".

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And every street corner in
Clitheroe, Mike can tell you a

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story of when he's had a scrap
or a trouble with somebody.

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MAN:
At that point in his
life, he wasn't really going

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anywhere as such.

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You know what I mean.

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He was just going down the
road that any of the guy of

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that edge from
Clitheroe was going.

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MICHAEL:
I worked at
a slaughter house.

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I remember, you
know, that was like.

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Anyone that, you know, needs
a job, they could put, they

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probably did a stint at the
slaughter house in Clitheroe,

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and my fist job was to go
around and pick up all the

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heads that hadn't landed in
the bin and put the heads in

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the bin, and I'm like, fucking
having a mini heart attack

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here, so I've got a shovel,
and I'm like shovelling the

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heads up, and they're like,
"Michael, they're not gonna

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bite you.

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You're okay.

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Just grab 'em and put
them in the fucking bin".

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I'm like, "Dude.

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That's a sheep's head
that's just been cut off.

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I'm done.

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I'm out of here.

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Fuck this.

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Stick it up your ass".

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What else?

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Door to door salesman, and got
to work, and walk around all

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fucking day in the rain and
the cold, and you knock on

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people's doors, and they'd
open the door, and I'd go,

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"Hi. Hello, sir.

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Sorry to bother you.

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Are you aware of deregulation
with the gas rules,"

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or whatever.

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Some bullshit.

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Door shut.

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Next.

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Just all day, doors
slammed in your face.

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Like, "You fucking asshole.

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I thought I was gonna
get a sale there".

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[♪♪♪]

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MICHAEL:
Working in fucking
shitty dead-end factories

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wasn't who I was.

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That's why I was so unhappy.

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Certainly, me and my friends,
we'd work Monday to Friday,

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and then at the weekend
we'd go and do the pubs.

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SHIREEN:
People would just
come over to him, and like,

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"Oh, you think you tough?"

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Like, "Fight. Fight me,"

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and he would say,
"No," and they would hit him,

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and he would always finish it,
but it was defence, and it got

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him in trouble.

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MICHAEL:
I know this one
particular occasion, I was.

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We were in a bar.

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MICHAEL:
This is the bar, right here.

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So, we come out here, and one
guy that punched me,

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so I'm like, "Okay.

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Well, it's on".

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00:15:26.577 --> 00:15:28.188
You know?

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00:15:28.188 --> 00:15:29.798
And he grabs this girl, and
he grabs her - he's in like

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a full nelson.

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He's stood in the
middle of the road.

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He's got this girl grabbed.

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I'm like, "Oh my God.

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00:15:37.893 --> 00:15:39.242
What are you doing?

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00:15:39.242 --> 00:15:39.939
You're acting like a tough
guy, but now you're using

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a girl as a human shield".

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00:15:42.985 --> 00:15:45.988
As I'm standing here like
this, I can see the other one.

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He's getting closer and closer.

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He's edging closer, and the
other guy's talking, so he's

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got my attention, and the
other guy's edging closer

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and closer.

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And I could see him, but he
didn't - I didn't let him know

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that I could see him.

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Boom.

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00:16:00.872 --> 00:16:03.745
Head-kicked him.

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[hands clapping]

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MICHAEL:
He hits the deck.

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I was laid in bed, it was summer
so the window was opened,

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and I heard a knock at the door.

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It was super early.

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And I peer out the window.

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There was like 3
cops at the door.

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I'm like, "Shit.

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What do they want?"

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Kind of had an idea.

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And I looked out the door
there at the back, and there

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was like 4 cops there as well.

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00:16:21.023 --> 00:16:22.329
I'm like, "Oh shit.

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00:16:22.329 --> 00:16:23.417
What is going on?"

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I thought, "I'd better go down".

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00:16:24.461 --> 00:16:26.246
It's like 7 in the morning.

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So, I go downstairs, and then,
I'm trying to talk to the

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00:16:30.424 --> 00:16:32.208
cops, and like,
"You're under arrest".

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SHIREEN:
It sounds awful, but
it was kind of normal, and

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I think this time was different
because he was in trouble.

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You know, and it was this
time it was big trouble.

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MICHAEL:
The judge sentenced
me to 28 days in prison.

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[gavel striking]

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00:16:45.134 --> 00:16:48.703
[♪♪♪]

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MICHAEL:
This is the
fucking dregs of society.

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I am not one of these people.

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00:16:52.446 --> 00:16:54.361
I'm better than this, and I
said to myself there and then,

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00:16:54.361 --> 00:16:55.231
I said, "That's it.

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00:16:55.231 --> 00:16:56.450
That's it.

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00:16:56.450 --> 00:16:58.104
I am fucking done with this.

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00:16:58.104 --> 00:17:00.845
I will never be back in this
type of environment ever

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00:17:00.845 --> 00:17:04.153
again, and I will never throw
another punch in my life".

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00:17:04.153 --> 00:17:05.415
[metal slamming]

451
00:17:05.415 --> 00:17:07.156
[indistinct yelling]

452
00:17:07.156 --> 00:17:09.463
[♪♪♪]

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MICHAEL:
You know,
I learned my lesson.

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You know, and I thank that
judge for that, because

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he did teach me a lesson.

456
00:17:15.121 --> 00:17:15.947
I was kind of reckless.

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I was an idiot.

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00:17:19.603 --> 00:17:21.170
We've all got volatile tempers.

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We all do things we regret.

460
00:17:23.825 --> 00:17:25.087
You know, but it made
me the man I am today.

461
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It made me who I am.

462
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I had a good childhood.

463
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I had a great childhood.

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00:17:32.007 --> 00:17:33.878
I saw a lot of violence.

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Saw a lot of violence as a
child, way too much violence.

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I love my parents dearly.

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They did their best by me.

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MICHAEL:
I think I was forced
to be mentally tough,

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00:17:44.150 --> 00:17:44.802
to be honest.

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00:17:44.802 --> 00:17:46.456
Yeah.

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00:17:46.456 --> 00:17:50.025
I mean, I saw things that, you
know, a child my size, age,

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shouldn't have seen,
you know, but-.

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INTERVIEWER:
Like what?

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Be specific.

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MICHAEL:
Just, you know.

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00:18:02.037 --> 00:18:03.169
I don't really want to
say it, to be honest.

477
00:18:05.171 --> 00:18:05.997
I love my mum and dad, so I
don't want to throw 'em under

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00:18:05.997 --> 00:18:08.826
a bus, you know.

479
00:18:08.826 --> 00:18:09.827
So.

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00:18:09.827 --> 00:18:11.090
[sniffing]

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00:18:11.090 --> 00:18:12.308
[exhaling]

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INTERVIEWER:
Is it just
stuff at home you-.

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MICHAEL:
Yeah.

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00:18:23.102 --> 00:18:24.190
Just stuff at home.

485
00:18:30.326 --> 00:18:33.503
Looking back now, as a man,
you know, I can see what my

486
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dad was going through.

487
00:18:34.417 --> 00:18:35.679
Probably a bit of depression.

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00:18:35.679 --> 00:18:37.986
Maybe a bit of PTSD, whatever.

489
00:18:37.986 --> 00:18:40.119
You know, he, as I say, was
a sniper, and he was a sniper

490
00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:42.121
that was put to use.

491
00:18:42.121 --> 00:18:45.472
So he had a lot of demons to
deal with, and as I say, money

492
00:18:45.472 --> 00:18:48.953
was tight, and it was a
volatile household, you know.

493
00:18:48.953 --> 00:18:51.042
But I'm not here to shit
all over my parents.

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00:18:51.042 --> 00:18:52.218
They loved us dearly.

495
00:18:52.218 --> 00:18:53.393
My dad's my hero, in fact.

496
00:18:53.393 --> 00:18:55.221
My dad's an amazing person.

497
00:18:55.221 --> 00:18:57.223
He really is, and so's my mom.

498
00:18:57.223 --> 00:18:58.572
Love 'em both to death.

499
00:18:58.572 --> 00:19:00.530
[♪♪♪]

500
00:19:08.538 --> 00:19:12.325
REBECCA:
I feel I was born to
love Michael and to support

501
00:19:12.325 --> 00:19:15.154
him, and that's my role in life.

502
00:19:15.154 --> 00:19:17.460
[♪♪♪]

503
00:19:21.116 --> 00:19:22.248
MICHAEL:
If it wasn't for her,
we wouldn't be sitting here

504
00:19:22.248 --> 00:19:23.771
having this conversation.

505
00:19:23.771 --> 00:19:24.554
Period.

506
00:19:24.554 --> 00:19:25.729
I wouldn't have been a fighter.

507
00:19:25.729 --> 00:19:27.905
I wouldn't have, you know.

508
00:19:27.905 --> 00:19:31.692
I wouldn't be a success
in life, you know.

509
00:19:31.692 --> 00:19:34.782
I know it sounds
arrogant, but it's true.

510
00:19:34.782 --> 00:19:37.088
You know, it's all
down to Rebecca.

511
00:19:37.088 --> 00:19:42.181
REBECCA:
I love him from the
absolute bottom of my heart,

512
00:19:42.181 --> 00:19:44.052
and I know that he
feels the same for me.

513
00:19:44.052 --> 00:19:46.359
MICHAEL:
I never thought I
was good enough for Rebecca.

514
00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:48.665
When I met her, I thought
I didn't deserve her.

515
00:19:48.665 --> 00:19:49.927
I thought her family
was too good for me.

516
00:19:49.927 --> 00:19:52.103
I thought she was
too good for me.

517
00:19:52.103 --> 00:19:54.584
REBECCA:
It was very different
to what I was used to.

518
00:19:54.584 --> 00:19:57.326
There was a lot of shouting.

519
00:19:57.326 --> 00:19:59.241
Lot of swearing.

520
00:19:59.241 --> 00:20:00.199
Things like that.

521
00:20:00.199 --> 00:20:01.635
[♪♪♪]

522
00:20:01.635 --> 00:20:04.159
REBECCA:
So, one time Michael
and I are on a night out.

523
00:20:04.159 --> 00:20:09.512
We came back to Michael's
house, and we just watched

524
00:20:09.512 --> 00:20:13.124
some TV and fell
asleep on the couch.

525
00:20:13.124 --> 00:20:19.087
In the morning, Michael's mom
came down the stairs, and she

526
00:20:19.087 --> 00:20:22.873
was so angry at me.

527
00:20:22.873 --> 00:20:24.266
Livid.

528
00:20:24.266 --> 00:20:24.658
KATHLEEN:
Oh my God.

529
00:20:24.658 --> 00:20:26.355
I'm some embarrassed.

530
00:20:26.355 --> 00:20:29.097
But, yeah, he did.

531
00:20:29.097 --> 00:20:31.665
He brought her in in the
middle of the night, you see.

532
00:20:31.665 --> 00:20:34.407
REBECCA:
And I guess she kind
of thought that maybe we were

533
00:20:34.407 --> 00:20:36.104
up to no good, you know.

534
00:20:36.104 --> 00:20:38.237
Being inappropriate.

535
00:20:38.237 --> 00:20:39.890
KATHLEEN:
For all I knew, she
could've been anybody,

536
00:20:39.890 --> 00:20:40.456
you know.

537
00:20:40.456 --> 00:20:41.327
People that sleep around.

538
00:20:41.327 --> 00:20:43.372
I don't know.

539
00:20:43.372 --> 00:20:47.855
REBECCA:
She's calling me like
a whore, and, you know, hussy

540
00:20:47.855 --> 00:20:51.641
and to get out and how dare I.

541
00:20:51.641 --> 00:20:53.817
She's got children upstairs.

542
00:20:53.817 --> 00:20:54.253
REBECCA:
And I said, "Becca.

543
00:20:54.253 --> 00:20:55.123
Come here.

544
00:20:55.123 --> 00:20:56.124
Come here".

545
00:20:56.124 --> 00:20:57.647
I says, "I'm so sorry".

546
00:20:57.647 --> 00:21:00.694
I says, "Just I've got a house
full of children, and I don't

547
00:21:00.694 --> 00:21:02.826
want them to think
that's what you do".

548
00:21:02.826 --> 00:21:04.437
MICHAEL:
Our house
was so volatile.

549
00:21:04.437 --> 00:21:07.309
I couldn't understand it when
I went, I first went to her

550
00:21:07.309 --> 00:21:10.094
house at Christmas, you know,
and like everyone was like

551
00:21:10.094 --> 00:21:11.792
so respectful and nice and
there was no argument and

552
00:21:11.792 --> 00:21:15.970
no shouting, and I just,
I felt, it was weird.

553
00:21:15.970 --> 00:21:17.406
But I didn't know how to
mentally process it all.

554
00:21:17.406 --> 00:21:18.189
I was like, "Fucking.

555
00:21:18.189 --> 00:21:19.713
At some point...

556
00:21:19.713 --> 00:21:21.715
At some point she's going
to kick off of him, and he's

557
00:21:21.715 --> 00:21:23.412
going to throw a glass of wine
in her face, and he's gonna

558
00:21:23.412 --> 00:21:25.153
get slapped, because it's all
going to kick off any minute,"

559
00:21:25.153 --> 00:21:26.894
'cause that's how
it was in my house.

560
00:21:26.894 --> 00:21:28.722
I'm like,
"Any minute now," but no.

561
00:21:28.722 --> 00:21:30.985
Everybody sits respectfully,
listens to what the other one

562
00:21:30.985 --> 00:21:33.596
has to say, and the,
"Ha ha," which is great.

563
00:21:33.596 --> 00:21:35.337
It's awesome, but I was like,
at first, I was struggling

564
00:21:35.337 --> 00:21:37.426
with it.

565
00:21:37.426 --> 00:21:38.384
I'm like, "What the fuck," but
this is how it's meant to be.

566
00:21:38.384 --> 00:21:39.515
That's how life should be.

567
00:21:39.515 --> 00:21:40.560
I was a fucking asshole.

568
00:21:40.560 --> 00:21:42.257
Let's be honest.

569
00:21:42.257 --> 00:21:44.215
I was going out trying to
fight everybody, you know.

570
00:21:44.215 --> 00:21:48.219
And that's no way
to live your life.

571
00:21:48.219 --> 00:21:50.091
MICHAEL:
And I was working at
the time as an upholsterer.

572
00:21:50.091 --> 00:21:53.355
On a Sunday night,
we get a phone call.

573
00:21:53.355 --> 00:21:55.618
My sensai, when I was younger,
he was like the head

574
00:21:55.618 --> 00:21:57.098
of the organization.

575
00:21:57.098 --> 00:22:00.667
He always took a special
interest in me and said

576
00:22:00.667 --> 00:22:02.495
I could go a long way.

577
00:22:02.495 --> 00:22:03.060
He said, "Mike, is this what
you want to do for the rest

578
00:22:03.060 --> 00:22:04.323
of your life?"

579
00:22:04.323 --> 00:22:06.107
I'm like, "Fuck no".

580
00:22:06.107 --> 00:22:08.762
Told me all about the
explosion of the UFC, mixed

581
00:22:08.762 --> 00:22:12.505
martial arts, Pride FC out in
Japan, and said, "Guys that

582
00:22:12.505 --> 00:22:16.378
can fight well in martial
arts can make real money now".

583
00:22:16.378 --> 00:22:18.728
Every single martial art
tournament I ever entered when

584
00:22:18.728 --> 00:22:21.470
I was a child, I won, and I
felt like this was who I was

585
00:22:21.470 --> 00:22:22.819
always destined to be.

586
00:22:22.819 --> 00:22:24.604
Rebecca will tell you.

587
00:22:24.604 --> 00:22:29.391
She knew that right back then,
when that phone call happened,

588
00:22:29.391 --> 00:22:30.218
things were going to change.

589
00:22:30.218 --> 00:22:31.524
So, he made me an offer.

590
00:22:31.524 --> 00:22:33.743
He said, "If you quit work,
move down to Nottingham,

591
00:22:33.743 --> 00:22:37.747
train here Monday to Friday,
go home, DJ at the weekend to

592
00:22:37.747 --> 00:22:39.662
make a little bit of money,"
he said, "If you can make it

593
00:22:39.662 --> 00:22:44.667
top 5 in the UK, I'll give you
loss-of-earnings at the job

594
00:22:44.667 --> 00:22:46.277
you were at".

595
00:22:46.277 --> 00:22:47.627
[♪♪♪]

596
00:22:47.627 --> 00:22:49.280
MAN:
Mike used to DJ at
a club called Munroe's.

597
00:22:49.280 --> 00:22:51.413
It was open all night.

598
00:22:51.413 --> 00:22:58.594
You know, every villain,
wanna-be gangster, undesirable

599
00:22:58.594 --> 00:23:01.467
was in this club, and Mike
used to DJ in there, and you

600
00:23:01.467 --> 00:23:05.035
know, he had the name is "DJ
Mikey B", and back in the day

601
00:23:05.035 --> 00:23:07.081
he was more famous for
spinnin' his records than

602
00:23:07.081 --> 00:23:10.127
he ever was for
fighting in the UFC.

603
00:23:10.127 --> 00:23:12.739
MICHAEL:
I moved down to
Nottingham, and that's

604
00:23:12.739 --> 00:23:13.653
what I did.

605
00:23:13.653 --> 00:23:14.697
Started training.

606
00:23:14.697 --> 00:23:16.395
You know, I'd sleep in my car.

607
00:23:16.395 --> 00:23:17.744
It was freezing cold, 'cause
obviously money was tight

608
00:23:17.744 --> 00:23:20.268
beforehand, but
know we quit work.

609
00:23:20.268 --> 00:23:22.444
REBECCA:
Money was extremely
tight in the early days.

610
00:23:22.444 --> 00:23:24.315
We had none.

611
00:23:24.315 --> 00:23:27.362
He would, he would sleep in
his car, because we couldn't

612
00:23:27.362 --> 00:23:32.802
afford like a hotel room or
a BnB or something like that.

613
00:23:32.802 --> 00:23:34.674
MICHAEL:
Oh, I'm gonna quit
work and go live in another

614
00:23:34.674 --> 00:23:37.764
city and have a jolly old
time, by myself, while you

615
00:23:37.764 --> 00:23:40.244
stay here and slug it out with
two fucking kids by yourself.

616
00:23:40.244 --> 00:23:42.464
How many women would
let you do that?

617
00:23:42.464 --> 00:23:43.465
Not many.

618
00:23:43.465 --> 00:23:44.510
She was selfless.

619
00:23:44.510 --> 00:23:46.337
She helped me.

620
00:23:46.337 --> 00:23:49.297
You know, made me realize
that, you know, the way I was

621
00:23:49.297 --> 00:23:51.560
living my life and my mental
approach was all wrong.

622
00:23:51.560 --> 00:23:56.870
[♪♪♪]

623
00:24:01.527 --> 00:24:03.877
MICHAEL:
This is 2003
in England, okay?

624
00:24:03.877 --> 00:24:06.619
No one knew what MMA was.

625
00:24:06.619 --> 00:24:08.534
I remember doing this radio
interview with this lady, and

626
00:24:08.534 --> 00:24:11.058
she entirely proved my point.

627
00:24:11.058 --> 00:24:12.102
MICHAEL:
This is
Mixed Martial Arts.

628
00:24:12.102 --> 00:24:12.973
That's what it's known as.

629
00:24:12.973 --> 00:24:14.453
It's not Fight Club or anything.

630
00:24:14.453 --> 00:24:15.671
It's not for barbarians.

631
00:24:15.671 --> 00:24:16.977
It's not for thugs, you know.

632
00:24:16.977 --> 00:24:19.501
If-I take it you haven't
watched the sport.

633
00:24:19.501 --> 00:24:20.284
WOMAN:
No.

634
00:24:20.284 --> 00:24:20.633
I haven't watched.

635
00:24:20.633 --> 00:24:22.199
MICHAEL:
Okay.

636
00:24:22.199 --> 00:24:23.287
WOMAN:
But, you do
look like a barbarian.

637
00:24:23.287 --> 00:24:24.767
MICHAEL:
Well, thank you very much.

638
00:24:24.767 --> 00:24:26.726
You know, I'll keep my
comments about you to myself.

639
00:24:26.726 --> 00:24:28.467
WOMAN:
[laughing]

640
00:24:28.467 --> 00:24:29.729
MICHAEL:
You know,
I'm not a barbarian.

641
00:24:29.729 --> 00:24:30.904
Far from it, you know.

642
00:24:30.904 --> 00:24:32.253
You've just met me.

643
00:24:32.253 --> 00:24:34.342
[♪♪♪]

644
00:24:34.342 --> 00:24:39.869
ANNOUNCER:
Michael "The Count" Bisping.

645
00:24:39.869 --> 00:24:41.523
COMMENTATOR:
He unleashes the strikes,
and that is what

646
00:24:41.523 --> 00:24:43.394
makes him a champion.

647
00:24:43.394 --> 00:24:44.483
MICHAEL:
I'm proud to say I
quickly became one of the top

648
00:24:44.483 --> 00:24:48.443
fighters in the UK, so now,
my focus was on the UFC in

649
00:24:48.443 --> 00:24:51.228
America, and making it on to
The Ultimate Fighter show

650
00:24:51.228 --> 00:24:53.056
in Las Vegas.

651
00:24:53.056 --> 00:24:54.623
BRUCE:
Michael Bisping!

652
00:24:54.623 --> 00:24:57.104
[♪♪♪]

653
00:25:09.725 --> 00:25:12.293
DANA:
The UFC wasn't
allowed on Pay Per View.

654
00:25:12.293 --> 00:25:14.904
As a grown adult, you couldn't
make the decision to buy

655
00:25:14.904 --> 00:25:15.949
this on Pay Per View.

656
00:25:15.949 --> 00:25:18.560
Porn was on Pay Per View.

657
00:25:18.560 --> 00:25:22.869
UFC was not, so that was
the uphill battle we had.

658
00:25:22.869 --> 00:25:25.611
The Ultimate Fighter was
our trojan horse, because we
knew

659
00:25:25.611 --> 00:25:29.440
we had to get on
television, but the networks
were

660
00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:32.400
terrified of this product,
so we put together a

661
00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:33.488
reality show.

662
00:25:33.488 --> 00:25:35.142
You're watching Ultimate
Fighting, but it's in a

663
00:25:35.142 --> 00:25:37.536
reality show format, which
doesn't make it feel

664
00:25:37.536 --> 00:25:39.494
as hardcore.

665
00:25:39.494 --> 00:25:41.627
MICHAEL:
So I earned the shot
in The Ultimate Fighter show.

666
00:25:41.627 --> 00:25:45.674
Put me one step closer to my
dream of being a UFC fighter.

667
00:25:45.674 --> 00:25:47.284
[♪♪♪]

668
00:25:47.284 --> 00:25:48.329
MICHAEL:
My name is
Mike "The Count" Bisping,

669
00:25:48.329 --> 00:25:50.636
and I've flown halfway
across the world for this.

670
00:25:50.636 --> 00:25:52.594
I feel I can, I've got
what it takes to make a real
living

671
00:25:52.594 --> 00:25:53.508
out of this.

672
00:25:53.508 --> 00:25:55.162
You know, a real career.

673
00:25:55.162 --> 00:25:56.685
DANA:
I love fighters
that are confident.

674
00:25:56.685 --> 00:25:59.558
I love fighters that
wanna be world champions.

675
00:25:59.558 --> 00:26:02.517
I love fighters that believe
they're the best and wanna

676
00:26:02.517 --> 00:26:05.564
prove it to everybody, and
that's why Mike Bisping

677
00:26:05.564 --> 00:26:06.869
and I hit it off so well.

678
00:26:06.869 --> 00:26:07.740
REFEREE:
Stop it right there.

679
00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:08.871
Stop it right there.

680
00:26:08.871 --> 00:26:09.742
That's it.

681
00:26:09.742 --> 00:26:10.481
ROSS:
Oof!

682
00:26:10.481 --> 00:26:12.048
MAN:
Nice!

683
00:26:12.048 --> 00:26:13.441
MICHAEL:
So, obviously, at the
end of The Ultimate Fighter,

684
00:26:13.441 --> 00:26:17.401
the prize is a
contract in the UFC.

685
00:26:17.401 --> 00:26:18.838
JAN:
By that time, all I was
thinking about was,

686
00:26:18.838 --> 00:26:23.146
"If he gets to the final, I'm
booking a flight to Vegas,"

687
00:26:23.146 --> 00:26:27.107
which is what we ended up doing.

688
00:26:27.107 --> 00:26:31.067
BRUCE:
Who will be crowned the
Ultimate Fighter and go on to

689
00:26:31.067 --> 00:26:35.071
receive a 6-figure
contract with the UFC.

690
00:26:35.071 --> 00:26:36.899
MIKE:
How is he
still standing?

691
00:26:36.899 --> 00:26:38.031
JOE:
Oh!

692
00:26:38.031 --> 00:26:39.510
MIKE:
Haynes is in trouble.

693
00:26:39.510 --> 00:26:40.903
It is all over!

694
00:26:40.903 --> 00:26:42.513
JOE:
Wow.

695
00:26:42.513 --> 00:26:45.647
MIKE:
Michael Bisping
is the Ultimate Fighter.

696
00:26:45.647 --> 00:26:48.128
MICHAEL:
All that time as a kid,
when I was younger, you know,

697
00:26:48.128 --> 00:26:50.783
being a little dickhead,
gettin' in scraps,

698
00:26:50.783 --> 00:26:52.001
it's all paying off now.

699
00:26:52.001 --> 00:26:53.002
REBECCA:
It's worked, you know.

700
00:26:53.002 --> 00:26:55.744
This crazy plan that we had.

701
00:26:55.744 --> 00:26:57.659
A lot of people doubted us.

702
00:26:57.659 --> 00:27:00.619
MICHAEL:
I just remember sprinting up
the stands to Rebecca.

703
00:27:00.619 --> 00:27:04.927
It brought a tear to
my eye, it really did.

704
00:27:04.927 --> 00:27:06.842
MICHAEL:
I had no idea that
the people of Great Britain

705
00:27:06.842 --> 00:27:09.976
were watching and were behind
me the way they were, and I

706
00:27:09.976 --> 00:27:11.847
will never ever forget that.

707
00:27:11.847 --> 00:27:13.762
[♪♪♪]

708
00:27:13.762 --> 00:27:16.330
MICHAEL:
So I dominated Elvis Sinosic
at UFC 70, and I got

709
00:27:16.330 --> 00:27:20.551
the TKO from my first ever
UFC win on English soil.

710
00:27:20.551 --> 00:27:24.033
I went on to beat Matt Hamill
in UFC 75 in a very

711
00:27:24.033 --> 00:27:27.515
hard-fought split
decision victory.

712
00:27:27.515 --> 00:27:30.736
I fought Rashad Evans, and
I was kinda just happy to be

713
00:27:30.736 --> 00:27:33.564
there, and unfortunately,
I took my first ever loss

714
00:27:33.564 --> 00:27:35.697
by split decision.

715
00:27:35.697 --> 00:27:37.656
I was kinda in awe of him a
little bit, and I was a fan

716
00:27:37.656 --> 00:27:39.396
of this guy, you know.

717
00:27:39.396 --> 00:27:42.835
So, that was the problem
with my mentality back then.

718
00:27:42.835 --> 00:27:44.837
I'd say, "Ah, well, I'm crying
all the way to the bank,"

719
00:27:44.837 --> 00:27:50.756
and I think deep down, that was
just me trying to mask it.

720
00:27:50.756 --> 00:27:53.323
From that moment on, I made
sure I was in the right

721
00:27:53.323 --> 00:27:55.151
mindset for all of my fights.

722
00:27:55.151 --> 00:27:56.892
I fought Charles McCarthy.

723
00:27:56.892 --> 00:28:00.940
First-round TKO.

724
00:28:00.940 --> 00:28:03.725
I then fought Jason Day.

725
00:28:03.725 --> 00:28:06.032
First-round TKO.

726
00:28:06.032 --> 00:28:08.861
I never lost a fight in 2008,
and I thought, "If I could

727
00:28:08.861 --> 00:28:12.691
beat Dan Henderson at UFC 100,
I had to get a title fight".

728
00:28:12.691 --> 00:28:14.301
[♪♪♪]

729
00:28:18.479 --> 00:28:20.002
ARIEL:
I knew how
big that fight was.

730
00:28:20.002 --> 00:28:23.223
It was at the time the
biggest card in UFC history, UFC
100.

731
00:28:23.223 --> 00:28:26.966
DAN:
Prior to UFC 100, Michael
Bisping and I were coaches on

732
00:28:26.966 --> 00:28:29.229
the ultimate fighter, and it
was the first time they did

733
00:28:29.229 --> 00:28:32.798
country verse country,
USA versus UK.

734
00:28:32.798 --> 00:28:35.409
During the show, Michael
talked a lot of smack.

735
00:28:35.409 --> 00:28:36.671
MICHAEL:
Taking it to the yanks.

736
00:28:36.671 --> 00:28:37.890
MICHAEL:
Is that
the best you've got?

737
00:28:37.890 --> 00:28:39.543
MAN:
Look, man...

738
00:28:39.543 --> 00:28:41.197
DAN:
A lot of people weren't
fans of his after that.

739
00:28:41.197 --> 00:28:42.895
KARYN:
Michael was definitely
the "bad guy", definitely the

740
00:28:42.895 --> 00:28:45.680
"bad boy", the smack talker.

741
00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:48.465
I understand why a lot of
people didn't like Michael and

742
00:28:48.465 --> 00:28:50.816
really wanted to see him
get his butt handed to him.

743
00:28:50.816 --> 00:28:52.469
MAN:
Mike, I talk so much shit
to you on Twitter, and you

744
00:28:52.469 --> 00:28:54.428
never blocked me,
and now I'm a fan.

745
00:28:54.428 --> 00:28:56.082
MICHAEL:
You can kiss my ass.

746
00:28:56.082 --> 00:28:58.171
MICHAEL:
The main challenge
this week I suppose is just

747
00:28:58.171 --> 00:29:02.784
making weight and getting into
the octagon nice and healthy.

748
00:29:02.784 --> 00:29:07.310
But it's all gonna go
swimmingly smooth, I'm sure.

749
00:29:11.967 --> 00:29:19.192
[high-pitched tone]

750
00:29:20.802 --> 00:29:28.070
[heavy breathing]

751
00:29:39.342 --> 00:29:41.083
MICHAEL:
I can't
remember anything.

752
00:29:41.083 --> 00:29:42.781
I don't remember
leaving the octagon.

753
00:29:42.781 --> 00:29:44.347
I don't remember anything.

754
00:29:47.046 --> 00:29:48.830
I didn't know what was going on.

755
00:29:48.830 --> 00:29:54.009
I had no idea why I was in a
locker room and I just fought.

756
00:29:54.009 --> 00:29:57.796
In my mind, I wasn't-I was
fighting, 3 months' time.

757
00:29:57.796 --> 00:30:01.712
[cheering]

758
00:30:01.712 --> 00:30:03.802
JOE:
He was circling
towards that direction.

759
00:30:03.802 --> 00:30:05.934
He ran right into the big
right hand of Dan Henderson.

760
00:30:05.934 --> 00:30:08.850
He is still out cold.

761
00:30:08.850 --> 00:30:09.503
MICHAEL:
And I'm thinking,
"What do you mean

762
00:30:09.503 --> 00:30:10.286
I just fought?"

763
00:30:10.286 --> 00:30:11.244
They're like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah.

764
00:30:11.244 --> 00:30:12.375
Michael, you got knocked out".

765
00:30:12.375 --> 00:30:13.289
I'm like, "No, no, no.

766
00:30:13.289 --> 00:30:15.074
I'm fighting in 3 months".

767
00:30:15.074 --> 00:30:15.770
They're like, "No, Michael.

768
00:30:15.770 --> 00:30:16.205
You fought tonight".

769
00:30:16.205 --> 00:30:17.816
I'm like, "Hold on.

770
00:30:17.816 --> 00:30:19.034
What, did I step in for
somebody at the last minute?

771
00:30:19.034 --> 00:30:19.774
Did somebody get injured?"

772
00:30:19.774 --> 00:30:20.122
They're like,

773
00:30:20.122 --> 00:30:21.732
"No. Michael.

774
00:30:21.732 --> 00:30:23.256
Right, you need to
go to the hospital".

775
00:30:23.256 --> 00:30:25.780
So, I start having a shower,
and I come out, and my manager

776
00:30:25.780 --> 00:30:26.172
was there.

777
00:30:26.172 --> 00:30:26.781
I say, "Hey.

778
00:30:26.781 --> 00:30:27.086
Come here.

779
00:30:27.086 --> 00:30:28.043
Come here".

780
00:30:28.043 --> 00:30:30.089
I said, "What's going on?"

781
00:30:30.089 --> 00:30:31.438
He said,
"You've been knocked out.

782
00:30:31.438 --> 00:30:32.613
You need to go to the hospital".

783
00:30:32.613 --> 00:30:33.614
I said, "No.

784
00:30:33.614 --> 00:30:33.962
Ah, yeah.

785
00:30:33.962 --> 00:30:35.007
I'm fine.

786
00:30:35.007 --> 00:30:35.703
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine".

787
00:30:35.703 --> 00:30:36.791
Go back into the shower.

788
00:30:36.791 --> 00:30:37.879
30 seconds later.

789
00:30:37.879 --> 00:30:39.315
Cwuh, from out behind the towel.

790
00:30:39.315 --> 00:30:39.707
I'm like, [whispering]
"Come here.

791
00:30:39.707 --> 00:30:41.187
Come here.

792
00:30:41.187 --> 00:30:42.666
What's going on?"

793
00:30:42.666 --> 00:30:44.407
He's like, "You've been
fucking knocked out.

794
00:30:44.407 --> 00:30:45.408
You need to go to the hospital".

795
00:30:45.408 --> 00:30:46.845
I was, "Ah, I'm fine.

796
00:30:46.845 --> 00:30:48.629
I'm fine, I'm fine," and
anyway, that went on a few

797
00:30:48.629 --> 00:30:49.499
times, and like,

798
00:30:49.499 --> 00:30:49.935
"You need.

799
00:30:49.935 --> 00:30:50.936
To go.

800
00:30:50.936 --> 00:30:52.676
To the hospital, okay?"

801
00:30:52.676 --> 00:30:55.549
'cause I didn't have a fucking
clue what was going on.

802
00:30:55.549 --> 00:31:01.120
[siren wailing]

803
00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:03.818
[♪♪♪]

804
00:31:03.818 --> 00:31:05.124
MICHAEL:
Yeah.

805
00:31:05.124 --> 00:31:06.821
I was in the back of an
ambulance with Frank Mir.

806
00:31:06.821 --> 00:31:08.997
Frank Mir just been fucked up
by Brock Lesnar, and me and

807
00:31:08.997 --> 00:31:11.347
Frank Mir in the back of
an ambulance like two sorry

808
00:31:11.347 --> 00:31:14.785
assholes, and yeah,
then it all started.

809
00:31:14.785 --> 00:31:17.310
I was sitting there,
and I just went, "Fuck".

810
00:31:17.310 --> 00:31:17.876
And he went, "What?

811
00:31:17.876 --> 00:31:18.615
What?"

812
00:31:18.615 --> 00:31:19.312
I said, "Nah".

813
00:31:19.312 --> 00:31:20.704
I said, "Now it makes sense.

814
00:31:20.704 --> 00:31:23.098
Now I remember," 'cause
before I had no idea.

815
00:31:23.098 --> 00:31:25.274
I couldn't put it all
together, and my brain had

816
00:31:25.274 --> 00:31:27.842
finally started working to the
point where I could piece it

817
00:31:27.842 --> 00:31:28.843
all together.

818
00:31:28.843 --> 00:31:29.931
I was like, "Shit.

819
00:31:29.931 --> 00:31:30.976
I lost the fight".

820
00:31:30.976 --> 00:31:31.498
You know.

821
00:31:31.498 --> 00:31:32.194
Oh well.

822
00:31:32.194 --> 00:31:33.239
What are you gonna do?

823
00:31:33.239 --> 00:31:35.067
[♪♪♪]

824
00:31:41.247 --> 00:31:45.164
MICHAEL W:
Those were two nasty, nasty,
nasty punches.

825
00:31:45.164 --> 00:31:49.603
I mean, that's like the punch
that, you know, when you punch

826
00:31:49.603 --> 00:31:52.911
that damn bag at the carnival,
the thing that registers

827
00:31:52.911 --> 00:31:55.043
how hard you punch?

828
00:31:55.043 --> 00:31:56.479
That looks like that punch.

829
00:31:56.479 --> 00:31:58.177
You know, when you just take a-.

830
00:31:58.177 --> 00:32:01.136
If you wind up and give it all.

831
00:32:01.136 --> 00:32:04.357
JOE:
Getting fucked up in a
fight where it was your choice

832
00:32:04.357 --> 00:32:07.969
to enter into the fight,
you decided you're gonna get
into

833
00:32:07.969 --> 00:32:09.797
a cage with another man?

834
00:32:09.797 --> 00:32:12.974
It takes a special kind of
person to choose to do that.

835
00:32:12.974 --> 00:32:16.151
MICHAEL:
I have this mask that
I'm supremely confident and

836
00:32:16.151 --> 00:32:20.155
this and that, but that's
probably the opposite.

837
00:32:20.155 --> 00:32:24.246
JOE:
When I see a fighter
lose, especially lose a big

838
00:32:24.246 --> 00:32:27.989
important fight by spectacular
knockout - Like, a perfect

839
00:32:27.989 --> 00:32:31.993
example is when Conor McGregor
knocked out José Aldo.

840
00:32:31.993 --> 00:32:37.564
You knew that the pain that he
was feeling right there

841
00:32:37.564 --> 00:32:40.871
inside the octogan was
just the beginning.

842
00:32:40.871 --> 00:32:47.443
He was going to be
haunted for years.

843
00:32:47.443 --> 00:32:49.097
MICHAEL:
Because when you win
a fight, it's the best feeling

844
00:32:49.097 --> 00:32:52.318
in the world, and then when
you lose, it's horrible.

845
00:32:52.318 --> 00:32:55.321
Of course it hurts physically,
but I don't give a fuck about

846
00:32:55.321 --> 00:32:56.931
physical pain, you know.

847
00:32:56.931 --> 00:33:00.021
That doesn't bother me,
but the emotional pain,

848
00:33:00.021 --> 00:33:02.458
the heartache, yeah,
that fuckin' hurts.

849
00:33:02.458 --> 00:33:04.852
You're a failure
in that objective.

850
00:33:04.852 --> 00:33:07.028
You failed, and you told the
world you were gonna win,

851
00:33:07.028 --> 00:33:08.421
you did the press conferences...

852
00:33:08.421 --> 00:33:09.900
MICHAEL:
I'm gonna win.

853
00:33:09.900 --> 00:33:13.078
MICHAEL:
And you failed,
and you lost.

854
00:33:14.035 --> 00:33:16.081
[water splashing]

855
00:33:21.303 --> 00:33:23.740
[♪♪♪]

856
00:33:30.834 --> 00:33:32.097
JOE:
It's not just the
disappointment of failure.

857
00:33:32.097 --> 00:33:38.407
It's the rotting pain inside
your soul that this person

858
00:33:39.887 --> 00:33:41.932
took something from you.

859
00:33:41.932 --> 00:33:44.283
Every minute of every day,
whether you're playing with

860
00:33:44.283 --> 00:33:48.069
your children or going to the
movies or having dinner with

861
00:33:48.069 --> 00:33:50.289
your wife, in the back of
your head, you're like, "That

862
00:33:50.289 --> 00:33:54.902
mother fucker knocked me out
in front of the whole world".

863
00:33:54.902 --> 00:33:58.210
RASHAD:
The mindset of the
fighter is, is a very

864
00:33:58.210 --> 00:34:01.213
chaotic place.

865
00:34:01.213 --> 00:34:03.215
RASHAD:
Don't you understand?

866
00:34:04.738 --> 00:34:05.521
RASHAD:
What I've been doin'.

867
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.135
RASHAD:
To get in that cage.

868
00:34:10.135 --> 00:34:11.223
TITO:
There's been a lot
of times I've been in my

869
00:34:11.223 --> 00:34:14.965
very darkest points
as a fighter, like no other.

870
00:34:14.965 --> 00:34:19.274
I remember sitting in my hotel
room at Mandalay Bay and just

871
00:34:19.274 --> 00:34:21.711
sitting in the shower, and
just tears coming down

872
00:34:21.711 --> 00:34:25.715
my eyes of just... defeat.

873
00:34:25.715 --> 00:34:28.327
Anger.

874
00:34:28.327 --> 00:34:32.113
I left all my, let all my fans
down, let all my family down.

875
00:34:32.113 --> 00:34:33.767
MICHAEL W:
As a fighter, there
is something that overwhelms

876
00:34:33.767 --> 00:34:34.898
everything else.

877
00:34:34.898 --> 00:34:36.422
I mean...

878
00:34:36.422 --> 00:34:37.945
I'll give you an example.

879
00:34:37.945 --> 00:34:40.252
When I played Mike Tyson,
I had to hear everybody's

880
00:34:40.252 --> 00:34:42.471
Mike Tyson story.

881
00:34:42.471 --> 00:34:45.257
So you got Robert De Niro
over here, you got former

882
00:34:45.257 --> 00:34:49.522
president, you got a governor
here, and Mike Tyson walks

883
00:34:49.522 --> 00:34:52.742
in the room, everybody's
gonna look at him.

884
00:34:52.742 --> 00:34:55.963
In a male-dominated society,
the pugilist trumps

885
00:34:55.963 --> 00:34:59.358
everything else, because deep
down people want that power

886
00:34:59.358 --> 00:35:01.403
more than anything else.

887
00:35:01.403 --> 00:35:05.364
The power to dominate another
person, that goes deep into

888
00:35:05.364 --> 00:35:07.540
the psyche of men.

889
00:35:07.540 --> 00:35:11.021
It can be a very lonely,
lonely existence.

890
00:35:11.021 --> 00:35:15.287
You know, bless those who
don't define it as their only

891
00:35:15.287 --> 00:35:20.118
connection to value.

892
00:35:20.118 --> 00:35:26.211
VIN:
I'm not sure that any
form of extreme success comes

893
00:35:28.735 --> 00:35:33.305
without some isolation and
comes without some deep

894
00:35:33.305 --> 00:35:35.220
soul-searching.

895
00:35:35.220 --> 00:35:38.136
PHONE:
"What's wrong?"

896
00:35:38.136 --> 00:35:39.615
MICHAEL:
I never spoke
about it too anybody.

897
00:35:39.615 --> 00:35:43.358
I never opened up about it at
all, and I was in bed one day

898
00:35:43.358 --> 00:35:44.881
watching the Rocky movie.

899
00:35:44.881 --> 00:35:48.450
Stallone portrays the, the
emotions that fighters

900
00:35:48.450 --> 00:35:50.365
go through just perfectly
in those Rocky movies.

901
00:35:50.365 --> 00:35:52.367
ROCKY:
I can't stop
my hands from shaking.

902
00:35:52.367 --> 00:35:56.850
[♪♪♪]

903
00:35:56.850 --> 00:35:58.939
ROCKY:
He never
felt this thing.

904
00:35:58.939 --> 00:35:59.940
ADRIAN:
You gotta
see a doctor.

905
00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:02.464
ROCKY:
No, I, I
just wanna go home.

906
00:36:02.464 --> 00:36:03.378
ADRIAN:
Home?

907
00:36:03.378 --> 00:36:04.249
ROCKY:
Yeah.

908
00:36:04.249 --> 00:36:04.640
ADRIAN:
Not see a doctor?

909
00:36:04.640 --> 00:36:06.251
ROCKY:
I'm just tired.

910
00:36:06.251 --> 00:36:09.079
Just tired.

911
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:10.516
MICHAEL:
I just burst into
tears, started bawling my eyes

912
00:36:10.516 --> 00:36:11.691
out, and my wife ran up.

913
00:36:11.691 --> 00:36:12.344
She's like, "What's wrong?

914
00:36:12.344 --> 00:36:14.215
What's wrong?"

915
00:36:14.215 --> 00:36:15.434
And it was the first time I'd
released any emotion about

916
00:36:15.434 --> 00:36:16.609
the fight, you know.

917
00:36:16.609 --> 00:36:18.437
Of course I was disappointed.

918
00:36:18.437 --> 00:36:19.220
You know, I thought I was
going to be fighting

919
00:36:19.220 --> 00:36:20.613
for the world title.

920
00:36:20.613 --> 00:36:24.225
I'd sacrificed so much to win
that fight, you know, but as

921
00:36:24.225 --> 00:36:26.575
always, I just put a smile and
a joke on the end of it,

922
00:36:26.575 --> 00:36:28.795
and don't relay my emotions.

923
00:36:28.795 --> 00:36:30.884
You know, I always
bottle things up.

924
00:36:30.884 --> 00:36:35.062
And I remember Joe Rogan,
Joe Rogan saying...

925
00:36:35.062 --> 00:36:38.108
JOE:
It takes incredible
mental strength to believe

926
00:36:38.108 --> 00:36:39.327
in yourself.

927
00:36:39.327 --> 00:36:45.942
Do you really wanna do this?

928
00:36:45.942 --> 00:36:49.294
JOE:
Can you regroup and get
back in to become a

929
00:36:49.294 --> 00:36:50.251
world class fighter?

930
00:36:50.251 --> 00:36:53.602
Some people can't.

931
00:36:53.602 --> 00:36:55.256
ARIEL:
And I think that night
a lot of people celebrated the

932
00:36:55.256 --> 00:36:57.693
fact that Michael Bisping was
done, that, that he was

933
00:36:57.693 --> 00:36:59.478
like essentially dead.

934
00:36:59.478 --> 00:37:02.394
Like, like Dan Henderson had
just killed him, and killed

935
00:37:02.394 --> 00:37:03.699
him off for good.

936
00:37:03.699 --> 00:37:07.137
We had been rid
of the boogeyman.

937
00:37:07.137 --> 00:37:07.964
MICHAEL:
You know,
I was, "Fuck him".

938
00:37:07.964 --> 00:37:09.923
I was mad.

939
00:37:09.923 --> 00:37:11.272
I was angry.

940
00:37:11.272 --> 00:37:13.143
I've had people write me
off constantly, constantly

941
00:37:13.143 --> 00:37:15.885
throughout my career, saying
I wasn't good enough,

942
00:37:15.885 --> 00:37:17.365
wasn't strong enough, just
wasn't skilled enough.

943
00:37:17.365 --> 00:37:19.019
"It's over.

944
00:37:19.019 --> 00:37:21.717
You're never ever gonna
get a title shot again".

945
00:37:21.717 --> 00:37:23.241
Everybody said, "You cannot
come back from a

946
00:37:23.241 --> 00:37:24.894
knockout like that".

947
00:37:24.894 --> 00:37:26.505
Or maybe I should retire,
'cause this isn't good

948
00:37:26.505 --> 00:37:27.636
for my health.

949
00:37:27.636 --> 00:37:29.595
I was like, "Fuck that.

950
00:37:29.595 --> 00:37:31.292
There isn't anything else.

951
00:37:31.292 --> 00:37:33.076
There isn't a backup plan,
because if this doesn't work,

952
00:37:33.076 --> 00:37:35.296
if this doesn't pan
out, I'm fucked.

953
00:37:35.296 --> 00:37:36.732
I've got nothing".

954
00:37:36.732 --> 00:37:38.430
And all these journalists and
all these people that wrote me

955
00:37:38.430 --> 00:37:41.259
off, that wrote negative
articles, that write shit on

956
00:37:41.259 --> 00:37:44.349
Twitter, that are on these
forums, of the utter hatred

957
00:37:44.349 --> 00:37:46.481
and negativity that people
have brought about me over

958
00:37:46.481 --> 00:37:49.919
the years, and I thank you,
because that fuelled me.

959
00:37:49.919 --> 00:37:51.094
That fuelled me more than
anything, to prove you

960
00:37:51.094 --> 00:37:51.834
all wrong.

961
00:37:51.834 --> 00:37:53.271
To say that I'm fucking done?

962
00:37:53.271 --> 00:37:54.794
You think I'm over?

963
00:37:54.794 --> 00:37:56.796
You think I'm fucking
finished in this sport?

964
00:37:56.796 --> 00:38:00.103
I'll fight anybody, anywhere,
anytime, right fucking now.

965
00:38:00.103 --> 00:38:02.062
You line them up,
I'll knock them down.

966
00:38:02.062 --> 00:38:04.107
That's the way I've always
been, and you mother fucker

967
00:38:04.107 --> 00:38:06.109
want to sit there behind
a desk and write a fucking

968
00:38:06.109 --> 00:38:08.198
article on your laptop and
talk shit about me after what

969
00:38:08.198 --> 00:38:09.635
I've been through?

970
00:38:09.635 --> 00:38:11.376
Go fuck yourself.

971
00:38:15.336 --> 00:38:17.817
VIN:
Being an alpha
is a pain in the ass.

972
00:38:17.817 --> 00:38:19.949
I mean, just to be real.

973
00:38:19.949 --> 00:38:21.516
I mean, anyone that's a real
alpha will tell ya,

974
00:38:21.516 --> 00:38:25.955
it's a drag sometimes.

975
00:38:25.955 --> 00:38:26.521
[chuckles]

976
00:38:26.521 --> 00:38:29.785
That's, and that's real.

977
00:38:29.785 --> 00:38:32.875
But it's who you are.

978
00:38:32.875 --> 00:38:35.574
You can't change who you are.

979
00:38:35.574 --> 00:38:37.880
[♪♪♪]

980
00:38:44.322 --> 00:38:45.801
MICHAEL:
I've lost a bit of
respect in the fighting world.

981
00:38:45.801 --> 00:38:47.673
I want to take that respect
back, and first thing on the

982
00:38:47.673 --> 00:38:50.458
list is beating Denis Kang.

983
00:38:50.458 --> 00:38:52.591
DANA:
Michael Bisping
never turned down a fight.

984
00:38:52.591 --> 00:38:54.767
[♪♪♪]

985
00:38:58.684 --> 00:39:00.163
JOE:
How pumped up he is.

986
00:39:00.163 --> 00:39:01.556
You know what?

987
00:39:01.556 --> 00:39:04.559
That Dan Henderson loss
could have created a monster.

988
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:06.561
MICHAEL:
Fight started,
by the way, and boom.

989
00:39:06.561 --> 00:39:08.346
[laughing]

990
00:39:08.346 --> 00:39:09.303
I got hit with a right hand
and put down pretty much

991
00:39:09.303 --> 00:39:11.087
straight away.

992
00:39:11.087 --> 00:39:11.871
MIKE:
And right
down the guard.

993
00:39:11.871 --> 00:39:13.525
MICHAEL:
And I recovered.

994
00:39:13.525 --> 00:39:14.221
I said, "Hold on.

995
00:39:14.221 --> 00:39:14.569
Don't worry about this.

996
00:39:14.569 --> 00:39:15.831
We got this".

997
00:39:15.831 --> 00:39:16.876
MIKE:
Kang took a knee.

998
00:39:16.876 --> 00:39:18.356
JOE:
Kang's in trouble.

999
00:39:18.356 --> 00:39:19.444
That's it.

1000
00:39:19.444 --> 00:39:20.706
MIKE:
It is all over!

1001
00:39:20.706 --> 00:39:21.663
JOE:
Wow.

1002
00:39:21.663 --> 00:39:23.186
Tremendous performance.

1003
00:39:23.186 --> 00:39:24.884
He had his back up
against the wall.

1004
00:39:24.884 --> 00:39:25.667
MICHAEL:
It felt good.

1005
00:39:25.667 --> 00:39:27.060
It felt good.

1006
00:39:27.060 --> 00:39:28.366
It wasn't just the
winning, you know.

1007
00:39:28.366 --> 00:39:31.412
It was shutting up all the
critics, all the people, all

1008
00:39:31.412 --> 00:39:34.197
the naysayers, the teachers at
school, the people in my home

1009
00:39:34.197 --> 00:39:35.895
town, a lot of people that
don't want to see you make it,

1010
00:39:35.895 --> 00:39:37.549
and so it felt good.

1011
00:39:37.549 --> 00:39:38.680
It felt very good.

1012
00:39:38.680 --> 00:39:46.732
[♪♪♪]

1013
00:39:46.732 --> 00:39:48.386
BRUCE:
I really do believe
that behind every man

1014
00:39:48.386 --> 00:39:50.344
is a good or great woman.

1015
00:39:50.344 --> 00:39:53.652
I had the pleasure at
Rebecca's and Michael's

1016
00:39:53.652 --> 00:39:56.568
wedding, announced him walking
into the reception as man and

1017
00:39:56.568 --> 00:39:58.483
wife as they walked down the
aisle of love for the first

1018
00:39:58.483 --> 00:40:00.702
time forever.

1019
00:40:00.702 --> 00:40:02.530
I know I did it in a very
funny way, and I introduced

1020
00:40:02.530 --> 00:40:05.011
both of them individual,
and my big thing when it comes
to

1021
00:40:05.011 --> 00:40:06.404
weddings is they walk
in, it's like,

1022
00:40:06.404 --> 00:40:12.932
"Mr. and Mrs. Michael and
Rebecca Bisping".

1023
00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:19.634
Like that.

1024
00:40:19.634 --> 00:40:25.684
[applause]

1025
00:40:25.684 --> 00:40:31.080
[♪♪♪]

1026
00:41:55.556 --> 00:41:57.297
MICHAEL:
And at that time, of course,
I was going on a good

1027
00:41:57.297 --> 00:41:58.298
win streak.

1028
00:41:58.298 --> 00:41:59.865
I was looking impressive
in the octagon.

1029
00:41:59.865 --> 00:42:01.344
I was starting to get the
recognition from the media and

1030
00:42:01.344 --> 00:42:03.782
from the fans, and it felt
great, and to be honest,

1031
00:42:03.782 --> 00:42:06.611
I thought I could beat anybody.

1032
00:42:06.611 --> 00:42:09.527
MIKE:
He has quickly become
one of the most exciting and

1033
00:42:09.527 --> 00:42:15.358
one of the most popular
fighters in the UFC.

1034
00:42:15.358 --> 00:42:17.404
MICHAEL:
Like always, I got
the knockout or the TKO.

1035
00:42:17.404 --> 00:42:19.754
Anyone, everyone, they'd
better watch their

1036
00:42:19.754 --> 00:42:20.842
fucking back.

1037
00:42:20.842 --> 00:42:22.931
[♪♪♪]

1038
00:42:27.196 --> 00:42:30.939
[applause]

1039
00:42:30.939 --> 00:42:34.639
MICHAEL:
I got matched
up against Vitor Belfort.

1040
00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:37.772
JON:
Huge clip... Vitor
Belfort has done it again...

1041
00:42:37.772 --> 00:42:39.992
[applause]

1042
00:42:39.992 --> 00:42:41.254
MICHAEL:
The narrative
from everybody.

1043
00:42:41.254 --> 00:42:42.777
All the media, the UFC,
Joe Rogan, I remember he said

1044
00:42:42.777 --> 00:42:49.044
if I beat Vitor Belfort, I'm
next in line for a title shot.

1045
00:42:49.044 --> 00:42:51.090
JOE:
Michael Bisping has been
beating the drum for a shot at

1046
00:42:51.090 --> 00:42:53.222
the title for a long time.

1047
00:42:53.222 --> 00:42:56.051
Now finally, he
has an opportunity.

1048
00:42:56.051 --> 00:42:58.488
If he can get past
Vitor Belfort-.

1049
00:42:58.488 --> 00:43:01.013
BRENDAN:
Pray to the MMA gods
Vitor Belfort does not enter

1050
00:43:01.013 --> 00:43:02.884
that fucking thing
juiced to the gills.

1051
00:43:02.884 --> 00:43:04.103
JOE:
Oh, he's going to.

1052
00:43:04.103 --> 00:43:04.233
BRENDAN:
Have you
seen his tits lately?

1053
00:43:04.233 --> 00:43:04.843
Oh my God.

1054
00:43:04.843 --> 00:43:06.453
JOE:
Yeah.

1055
00:43:06.453 --> 00:43:07.672
There's something happens to
Vitor when he fills up

1056
00:43:07.672 --> 00:43:09.325
with super unleaded.

1057
00:43:09.325 --> 00:43:11.371
BRENDAN:
Dude, it's like
peanut butter and jelly.

1058
00:43:11.371 --> 00:43:13.547
He got dick veins out
the side of his neck.

1059
00:43:13.547 --> 00:43:15.418
JOE:
He's got more muscle
than all of us together.

1060
00:43:15.418 --> 00:43:17.029
BRENDAN:
Like, some people
don't do well with roids.

1061
00:43:17.029 --> 00:43:17.769
They get all red and shit.

1062
00:43:17.769 --> 00:43:18.944
He looks great.

1063
00:43:18.944 --> 00:43:20.032
His skin's vibrant.

1064
00:43:20.032 --> 00:43:21.033
His tits are poppin'.

1065
00:43:21.033 --> 00:43:21.903
JOE:
[laughing]

1066
00:43:21.903 --> 00:43:22.730
BRENDAN:
He's all tanned.

1067
00:43:22.730 --> 00:43:24.384
His teeth get whiter.

1068
00:43:24.384 --> 00:43:26.604
JOE:
He was at a level with
his testosterone that no

1069
00:43:26.604 --> 00:43:28.475
human ever reaches.

1070
00:43:28.475 --> 00:43:30.564
You don't get there.

1071
00:43:30.564 --> 00:43:32.958
It's not real.

1072
00:43:32.958 --> 00:43:36.526
Like there's a human, and
then there's this, kkkh, khhh,

1073
00:43:36.526 --> 00:43:38.746
there's this new slot that you
can fall into if you get just

1074
00:43:38.746 --> 00:43:40.443
enough juice in your system.

1075
00:43:40.443 --> 00:43:42.402
I mean, he's fucking
red lining his engines.

1076
00:43:42.402 --> 00:43:45.797
It's like, BRRRRRGH... So he
was going into that cage

1077
00:43:45.797 --> 00:43:50.628
red lined, and that's who
Michael Bisping fought.

1078
00:43:50.628 --> 00:43:59.158
[♪♪♪]

1079
00:43:59.158 --> 00:44:03.466
JOE:
When they were at the
weigh-ins, Bisping leans over

1080
00:44:03.466 --> 00:44:06.426
to Vitor and says,
"Jesus isn't real".

1081
00:44:06.426 --> 00:44:08.036
[laughing]

1082
00:44:08.036 --> 00:44:12.084
Which, in retrospect, probably
wasn't the best thing to say

1083
00:44:12.084 --> 00:44:15.783
to a juiced up TRT Vitor.

1084
00:44:15.783 --> 00:44:17.263
MICHAEL:
See, this
is a tough fight.

1085
00:44:17.263 --> 00:44:18.656
You know, he's been knocking
everybody out with

1086
00:44:18.656 --> 00:44:19.265
head kicks recently.

1087
00:44:19.265 --> 00:44:19.874
JON:
There it is again.

1088
00:44:19.874 --> 00:44:21.136
That left high kick.

1089
00:44:21.136 --> 00:44:22.224
And Bisping is over-.

1090
00:44:22.224 --> 00:44:23.225
MICHAEL:
Went down.

1091
00:44:23.225 --> 00:44:24.052
Followed it up with some shots.

1092
00:44:24.052 --> 00:44:25.271
I was okay, actually.

1093
00:44:25.271 --> 00:44:26.881
But then the referee stepped in.

1094
00:44:26.881 --> 00:44:28.622
[applause]

1095
00:44:28.622 --> 00:44:29.101
JON:
Vitor Belfort...

1096
00:44:29.101 --> 00:44:30.580
JOE:
Huge high kick.

1097
00:44:30.580 --> 00:44:31.669
JON:
Has knocked
out Michael Bisping.

1098
00:44:31.669 --> 00:44:33.496
[applause]

1099
00:44:33.496 --> 00:44:34.846
MICHAEL:
I think he's a piece
of shit is what I think.

1100
00:44:34.846 --> 00:44:37.022
I'm not sure if I'm getting
my point across on how I feel

1101
00:44:37.022 --> 00:44:38.893
about him, if I'm honest.

1102
00:44:38.893 --> 00:44:40.808
DANA:
Bisping was all
over Vitor about that.

1103
00:44:40.808 --> 00:44:43.724
Yeah, back in the day, there
were definitely guys who

1104
00:44:43.724 --> 00:44:46.858
fought guys who cheated.

1105
00:44:52.777 --> 00:44:54.561
MICHAEL:
So it turns out that
kick to the head from Vitor,

1106
00:44:54.561 --> 00:44:57.085
that would soon become
my worst nightmare.

1107
00:44:57.085 --> 00:44:58.347
MICHAEL:
Can you imagine, that
kick to the head from Vitor.

1108
00:44:58.347 --> 00:44:59.174
MICHAEL:
The curtain's closing.

1109
00:44:59.174 --> 00:45:00.741
MICHAEL:
My worst nightmare.

1110
00:45:00.741 --> 00:45:02.525
MICHAEL:
It crept in like
this, and it stopped there,

1111
00:45:02.525 --> 00:45:04.702
it was like the curtains that
had been shut all the way,

1112
00:45:04.702 --> 00:45:07.008
and if I close this eye,
that's all I could see.

1113
00:45:07.008 --> 00:45:10.098
It was all black, and then a
strip of vision in the middle,

1114
00:45:10.098 --> 00:45:13.101
and I was like, you know, you
ain't gotta be a doctor to

1115
00:45:13.101 --> 00:45:17.149
figure that that isn't normal,
so I called my eye doctor.

1116
00:45:17.149 --> 00:45:18.411
"I think I've got a
detached retina,"

1117
00:45:18.411 --> 00:45:20.674
and he said,
"Well, why do you say that?"

1118
00:45:20.674 --> 00:45:22.502
I said, "Because when I put
my hand in front of my face

1119
00:45:22.502 --> 00:45:24.722
and wiggle my fingers,
I can't fucking see them,"

1120
00:45:24.722 --> 00:45:25.940
and he went, "Yeah, you
need to come in here

1121
00:45:25.940 --> 00:45:27.376
right now".

1122
00:45:27.376 --> 00:45:29.030
Sure enough, detached retina.

1123
00:45:29.030 --> 00:45:32.555
MICHAEL:
I am going to do
everything in my power to make

1124
00:45:32.555 --> 00:45:36.472
sure that I still fight in
Manchester, so, you know,

1125
00:45:36.472 --> 00:45:39.867
it's just a bump in the
road, hopefully.

1126
00:45:39.867 --> 00:45:42.870
[♪♪♪]

1127
00:45:42.870 --> 00:45:44.654
MICHAEL:
The surgery
lasted over an hour.

1128
00:45:44.654 --> 00:45:47.875
They injected oil in my eye,
they used a laser, they put

1129
00:45:47.875 --> 00:45:50.660
a silicon sponge around the
outside, and eventually

1130
00:45:50.660 --> 00:45:54.752
reattached my retina.

1131
00:45:54.752 --> 00:45:57.015
[♪♪♪]

1132
00:45:57.015 --> 00:45:58.451
MICHAEL:
Dana White calls, and
he says, "Have you spoken

1133
00:45:58.451 --> 00:45:59.060
to your doctor?"

1134
00:45:59.060 --> 00:46:00.975
and I said, "No".

1135
00:46:00.975 --> 00:46:02.455
He said, "Well, I have".

1136
00:46:02.455 --> 00:46:03.586
I said, "Right.

1137
00:46:03.586 --> 00:46:04.587
Okay. Go on.

1138
00:46:04.587 --> 00:46:05.588
What'd he say?"

1139
00:46:05.588 --> 00:46:07.025
and he said,
"Well, I'll just cut

1140
00:46:07.025 --> 00:46:08.461
to the chase.

1141
00:46:08.461 --> 00:46:09.767
He said you're never
gonna fight again".

1142
00:46:09.767 --> 00:46:11.769
He said, "He said,
'Your eye is a mess'".

1143
00:46:11.769 --> 00:46:13.248
Obviously.

1144
00:46:13.248 --> 00:46:17.818
You know, that wasn't an
easy phone call to take.

1145
00:46:17.818 --> 00:46:18.993
Fighting was my life.

1146
00:46:18.993 --> 00:46:20.560
Still I never gave up hope.

1147
00:46:20.560 --> 00:46:21.953
[♪♪♪]

1148
00:46:24.999 --> 00:46:27.045
MICHAEL:
After recovery, I
wake up one morning with a

1149
00:46:27.045 --> 00:46:29.874
headache, but I still decided
to go for a run, then the pain

1150
00:46:29.874 --> 00:46:32.224
got increasingly worse.

1151
00:46:32.224 --> 00:46:34.530
The pain my head was like
nothing I'd ever experienced

1152
00:46:34.530 --> 00:46:38.143
ever, so when I got back
my wife called my doctor.

1153
00:46:38.143 --> 00:46:40.972
[♪♪♪]

1154
00:46:40.972 --> 00:46:42.538
MICHAEL:
A regular person's
eye pressure is between

1155
00:46:42.538 --> 00:46:43.148
9 and 20.

1156
00:46:43.148 --> 00:46:44.323
They checked my pressure.

1157
00:46:44.323 --> 00:46:46.847
It was like 90-something.

1158
00:46:46.847 --> 00:46:48.762
They said they've never seen
someone's pressure as high.

1159
00:46:48.762 --> 00:46:50.155
They said, "Go to
this other hospital".

1160
00:46:50.155 --> 00:46:52.113
I went to this other hospital,
and they have a procedure

1161
00:46:52.113 --> 00:46:54.855
where they use laser, where
they can clear the drainage

1162
00:46:54.855 --> 00:46:56.901
in the eye, and they give
me some medication.

1163
00:46:56.901 --> 00:46:58.424
They sent me on my way.

1164
00:46:58.424 --> 00:46:59.904
It felt like my eyeball
was going to explode.

1165
00:46:59.904 --> 00:47:00.992
I get home.

1166
00:47:00.992 --> 00:47:03.429
Head's still fucking exploding.

1167
00:47:03.429 --> 00:47:05.735
It's like, the worst pain
you could ever imagine.

1168
00:47:05.735 --> 00:47:09.043
Gets to like 2:00 in the
morning, I'm still like this.

1169
00:47:09.043 --> 00:47:10.958
So we drove off to Pasadena,
the only doctor that was open

1170
00:47:10.958 --> 00:47:12.655
at that time of night.

1171
00:47:12.655 --> 00:47:15.310
Literally, I wasn't a very
pleasant person to be around.

1172
00:47:15.310 --> 00:47:17.835
I'm screaming, howling in agony.

1173
00:47:17.835 --> 00:47:22.622
We get this huge needle,
shove it right in my eye.

1174
00:47:22.622 --> 00:47:23.928
"The drain in
your eye is blocked.

1175
00:47:23.928 --> 00:47:25.799
You've got glaucoma".

1176
00:47:25.799 --> 00:47:27.496
He pulls out this
piece of plastic.

1177
00:47:27.496 --> 00:47:29.324
He says, "I'm gonna put
this in your eye, and it'll

1178
00:47:29.324 --> 00:47:31.065
relieve the drainage".

1179
00:47:31.065 --> 00:47:34.242
They're operating, and I wake
up a little bit beforehand.

1180
00:47:34.242 --> 00:47:36.592
The anaesthetic had worn off.

1181
00:47:36.592 --> 00:47:37.985
The pain.

1182
00:47:37.985 --> 00:47:40.727
The pain was the worst thing
I've ever experienced,

1183
00:47:40.727 --> 00:47:43.643
and I could see the doctors,
like, "What's going on?"

1184
00:47:43.643 --> 00:47:45.123
Soom.

1185
00:47:45.123 --> 00:47:45.950
Sticks another needle in my
eye, more medication,

1186
00:47:45.950 --> 00:47:48.343
and boom, puts me under.

1187
00:47:48.343 --> 00:47:50.955
And so they had to go in, undo
the operation, take the drain

1188
00:47:50.955 --> 00:47:53.131
out, and start all over again.

1189
00:47:53.131 --> 00:47:54.959
[♪♪♪]

1190
00:48:09.887 --> 00:48:12.193
[♪♪♪]

1191
00:49:13.080 --> 00:49:17.302
[waves crashing]

1192
00:49:17.302 --> 00:49:19.130
[♪♪♪]

1193
00:49:23.786 --> 00:49:32.099
[heavy breathing]

1194
00:49:32.099 --> 00:49:34.754
DAZ:
Cast your mind back
to the film, Rocky 2.

1195
00:49:34.754 --> 00:49:38.105
[♪♪♪]

1196
00:49:38.105 --> 00:49:39.628
ADRIAN:
You have to retire.

1197
00:49:39.628 --> 00:49:39.715
ROCKY:
I ain't gonna,
I don't want to retire.

1198
00:49:39.715 --> 00:49:40.412
You know.

1199
00:49:40.412 --> 00:49:41.065
This ain't the time to retire.

1200
00:49:41.065 --> 00:49:41.761
You know.

1201
00:49:41.761 --> 00:49:42.370
Not in here.

1202
00:49:42.370 --> 00:49:44.894
Not in no office.

1203
00:49:44.894 --> 00:49:47.332
DAZ:
Mike Bisping is the true,
he's the true epitome

1204
00:49:47.332 --> 00:49:48.724
of a Rocky movie.

1205
00:49:48.724 --> 00:49:50.074
He really is.

1206
00:49:50.074 --> 00:49:52.337
Love him or hate him, that
is a true testament

1207
00:49:52.337 --> 00:49:54.252
of the character.

1208
00:49:54.252 --> 00:49:58.430
REBECCA:
I spoke to Michael a
couple of times about ending it,

1209
00:49:58.430 --> 00:50:01.346
without saying,
"Okay, I think it's time".

1210
00:50:01.346 --> 00:50:03.043
He knew how I felt.

1211
00:50:03.043 --> 00:50:07.308
You know, of course it was
taking its toll on him.

1212
00:50:07.308 --> 00:50:09.615
[♪♪♪]

1213
00:50:10.964 --> 00:50:13.140
ADRIAN:
Do you love me?

1214
00:50:13.140 --> 00:50:14.228
ROCKY:
Yeah, I love you.

1215
00:50:14.228 --> 00:50:15.925
Now, what, why do you ask that?

1216
00:50:15.925 --> 00:50:18.928
ADRIAN:
Because if you love
somebody, you live with him,

1217
00:50:18.928 --> 00:50:20.104
you live for them.

1218
00:50:20.104 --> 00:50:21.670
You don't gamble with a life.

1219
00:50:21.670 --> 00:50:24.064
Rocky, I don't care
about the money.

1220
00:50:24.064 --> 00:50:25.544
It's you.

1221
00:50:25.544 --> 00:50:28.982
That's all that matters.

1222
00:50:28.982 --> 00:50:30.114
Please.

1223
00:50:30.114 --> 00:50:31.985
We'll be okay.

1224
00:50:31.985 --> 00:50:33.291
We'll be fine.

1225
00:50:33.291 --> 00:50:38.165
REBECCA:
That was a very
dark time in his life.

1226
00:50:38.165 --> 00:50:46.217
[♪♪♪]

1227
00:50:46.217 --> 00:50:50.264
REBECCA:
The life just seemed
to go out of him, and my guess

1228
00:50:50.264 --> 00:50:53.659
is I, he just felt like his
identity was gone as well,

1229
00:50:53.659 --> 00:50:56.879
as well as his
livelihood, you know.

1230
00:50:56.879 --> 00:51:01.493
The pressure of,
"What am I gonna do now?

1231
00:51:01.493 --> 00:51:04.235
This is all I know.

1232
00:51:04.235 --> 00:51:08.021
How am I gonna support
my wife and my kids now?"

1233
00:51:08.021 --> 00:51:12.982
I mean, that pressure
on top of having to go through

1234
00:51:12.982 --> 00:51:15.072
that kind of injury, I can't
imagine what that must have

1235
00:51:15.072 --> 00:51:16.290
been like for him.

1236
00:51:16.290 --> 00:51:18.466
MICHAEL W:
One thing about
fighters is we feel more

1237
00:51:18.466 --> 00:51:21.034
than other folks.

1238
00:51:21.034 --> 00:51:22.557
You know that you're embraced
by somebody who would

1239
00:51:22.557 --> 00:51:24.820
basically die for you.

1240
00:51:24.820 --> 00:51:28.781
Even though we take the
moniker of, of the monster,

1241
00:51:28.781 --> 00:51:31.131
but we wouldn't be those
monsters if we didn't have

1242
00:51:31.131 --> 00:51:33.655
something to protect, and
that's, our true nature

1243
00:51:33.655 --> 00:51:36.789
is loving individuals.

1244
00:51:36.789 --> 00:51:40.575
REBECCA:
Michael lives
for his children.

1245
00:51:40.575 --> 00:51:42.708
Everything he does is for them.

1246
00:51:42.708 --> 00:51:45.450
Has such a close bond with them.

1247
00:51:45.450 --> 00:51:46.886
ELLIE:
Hello.

1248
00:51:46.886 --> 00:51:48.409
Hello.

1249
00:51:48.409 --> 00:51:49.889
LUCAS:
[laughing]

1250
00:51:49.889 --> 00:51:50.585
CALLUM:
Hey Dad.

1251
00:51:50.585 --> 00:51:52.109
ELLIE:
Hiya Dad.

1252
00:51:52.109 --> 00:51:52.370
MICHAEL:
Hiya Dad.

1253
00:51:52.370 --> 00:51:53.458
[chatter fades]

1254
00:51:53.458 --> 00:51:55.416
[♪♪♪]

1255
00:52:06.384 --> 00:52:07.689
COBURN:
Thomas Magnum, I presume.

1256
00:52:07.689 --> 00:52:08.995
THOMAS:
You must be Coburn.

1257
00:52:08.995 --> 00:52:09.517
COBURN:
Alright.

1258
00:52:09.517 --> 00:52:10.475
Let's keep this simple.

1259
00:52:10.475 --> 00:52:12.433
Our guy for yours.

1260
00:52:12.433 --> 00:52:14.479
[♪♪♪]

1261
00:52:14.479 --> 00:52:16.916
MICHAEL:
I started focusing on
everything I could do to build

1262
00:52:16.916 --> 00:52:18.352
- for want of a better
expression - a brand outside

1263
00:52:18.352 --> 00:52:20.267
of fighting.

1264
00:52:20.267 --> 00:52:23.096
I started to try to focus on
movies, on TV, on podcasts,

1265
00:52:23.096 --> 00:52:26.012
doing anything in the
media, anything I could.

1266
00:52:26.012 --> 00:52:28.406
SCOTT:
I think he could
translate his career into

1267
00:52:28.406 --> 00:52:34.151
films quite easily,
because he's such a fun,
charismatic,

1268
00:52:34.151 --> 00:52:36.370
very chatty, funny guy.

1269
00:52:36.370 --> 00:52:37.980
SCOTT:
You do as your fucking
told and get in the van.

1270
00:52:37.980 --> 00:52:39.373
MICHAEL:
Who do you think
you're talking to, ay?

1271
00:52:39.373 --> 00:52:41.419
You keep telling me what to
do, and you're pissing me off.

1272
00:52:41.419 --> 00:52:42.115
SCOTT:
We're running around
the streets with fucking

1273
00:52:42.115 --> 00:52:43.029
machine guns.

1274
00:52:43.029 --> 00:52:44.509
Look at the eyes on us.

1275
00:52:44.509 --> 00:52:45.379
MAN:
You work
across the street.

1276
00:52:45.379 --> 00:52:47.860
MICHAEL:
Yeah.

1277
00:52:47.860 --> 00:52:49.383
NOEL:
Diamond exchange.

1278
00:52:49.383 --> 00:52:51.211
MICHAEL:
That's right.

1279
00:52:51.211 --> 00:52:52.995
NOEL:
Beer's on me.

1280
00:52:52.995 --> 00:52:54.519
NOEL:
No, I think
Michael is a good actor.

1281
00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:56.999
When you have that mindset
of learning, and you can absorb

1282
00:52:56.999 --> 00:52:59.915
things, you're always
going to improve at what you do.

1283
00:52:59.915 --> 00:53:01.656
So, if you look at his
performance in earlier movies

1284
00:53:01.656 --> 00:53:04.355
to now, you're going to see a
vast difference, but that goes

1285
00:53:04.355 --> 00:53:06.139
back to fighting.

1286
00:53:06.139 --> 00:53:07.227
You look at his performance
when he was coming up as a

1287
00:53:07.227 --> 00:53:10.970
fighter to, to later on,
there's a vast difference.

1288
00:53:10.970 --> 00:53:14.365
[♪♪♪]

1289
00:53:21.328 --> 00:53:23.025
MICHAEL:
I started
getting treatment.

1290
00:53:23.025 --> 00:53:25.898
You know, obviously,
post-surgery, you know,

1291
00:53:25.898 --> 00:53:27.247
treatment and recovery,
and you gotta go back for

1292
00:53:27.247 --> 00:53:29.162
check-ups and things.

1293
00:53:29.162 --> 00:53:30.555
My doctor wasn't there one
day, and I saw a different

1294
00:53:30.555 --> 00:53:34.733
doctor, and this doctor said,
"My dad told me there's

1295
00:53:34.733 --> 00:53:36.996
two types of people
in this life.

1296
00:53:36.996 --> 00:53:40.217
One type of person, swings
through the jungle on a vine

1297
00:53:40.217 --> 00:53:42.436
and waits until they have hold
of another vine before they

1298
00:53:42.436 --> 00:53:44.221
let go of that one".

1299
00:53:44.221 --> 00:53:46.092
He said, "The other type
of person swings through the

1300
00:53:46.092 --> 00:53:48.529
fucking jungle and they let
go and they hope

1301
00:53:48.529 --> 00:53:50.705
they catch a vine".

1302
00:53:50.705 --> 00:53:51.315
He said, "Something tells
me you're that

1303
00:53:51.315 --> 00:53:53.273
second type of person".

1304
00:53:53.273 --> 00:53:55.928
I said, "You fucking
bet your ass I am".

1305
00:53:55.928 --> 00:53:57.408
He said, "Okay".

1306
00:53:57.408 --> 00:53:58.887
He said, "We'll start
training, and then we'll see

1307
00:53:58.887 --> 00:54:00.324
how that goes, and then
hopefully down the line

1308
00:54:00.324 --> 00:54:01.890
we'll book a fight".

1309
00:54:01.890 --> 00:54:04.937
So I came out there with
the biggest sense of joy

1310
00:54:04.937 --> 00:54:06.591
and relief.

1311
00:54:06.591 --> 00:54:08.332
You know, I was so happy.

1312
00:54:13.162 --> 00:54:16.296
The reality is, off-camera,
is that, from when I opened,

1313
00:54:16.296 --> 00:54:18.429
not for camera.

1314
00:54:38.231 --> 00:54:39.580
MICHAEL:
No, apart
from, yeah, yeah.

1315
00:54:44.759 --> 00:54:46.544
MICHAEL:
I could see a little bit.

1316
00:54:51.375 --> 00:54:52.027
MICHAEL:
If you're following
what I'm putting down,

1317
00:54:52.027 --> 00:54:52.898
'cause I got a camera
in my face.

1318
00:54:54.073 --> 00:54:55.683
[laughing]

1319
00:54:55.683 --> 00:54:56.858
Just roll with
the punches, Mike.

1320
00:54:58.947 --> 00:54:59.905
[laughing]

1321
00:55:01.559 --> 00:55:03.648
[♪♪♪]

1322
00:55:03.648 --> 00:55:06.346
MICHAEL:
Having a doctor tell
me to start training again

1323
00:55:06.346 --> 00:55:10.132
and getting medically cleared
to fight, that's two very

1324
00:55:10.132 --> 00:55:11.438
different things.

1325
00:55:11.438 --> 00:55:13.048
I had to pass the test that

1326
00:55:13.048 --> 00:55:17.139
said I had a minimum of
2200 vision, and even though

1327
00:55:17.139 --> 00:55:21.143
2200 vision is classed as
clinically blind, for me,

1328
00:55:21.143 --> 00:55:25.365
well let's just say that
was very challenging.

1329
00:55:25.365 --> 00:55:27.324
I know you all wanna know how
I got medically cleared

1330
00:55:27.324 --> 00:55:31.980
to fight again, but I
can't talk about that.

1331
00:55:31.980 --> 00:55:34.592
I'm not going to go into
details, but if you know me,

1332
00:55:34.592 --> 00:55:37.595
then you know there's nothing
I won't do to take care of my

1333
00:55:37.595 --> 00:55:40.598
family, and I did what I had
to do in order to fight again

1334
00:55:40.598 --> 00:55:43.340
and take care of them.

1335
00:55:43.340 --> 00:55:45.516
That's all I can say.

1336
00:55:45.516 --> 00:55:48.345
But long story short, I got
cleared to fight, but let me

1337
00:55:48.345 --> 00:55:50.651
tell ya, it wasn't easy.

1338
00:55:52.436 --> 00:55:55.047
MICHAEL:
I walked out,
"Fucking come on!"

1339
00:55:55.047 --> 00:55:58.746
I was so fucking happy,
so happy, so happy,

1340
00:55:58.746 --> 00:55:59.443
because I was cleared.

1341
00:55:59.443 --> 00:56:00.574
I was done.

1342
00:56:00.574 --> 00:56:02.141
I dodged a bullet again.

1343
00:56:02.141 --> 00:56:03.534
[♪♪♪]

1344
00:56:03.534 --> 00:56:05.318
JAN:
It's amazing how he
bluffed the doctors,

1345
00:56:05.318 --> 00:56:10.758
he bluffed the UFC, he got
through the commissions.

1346
00:56:10.758 --> 00:56:12.847
It was always a ride.

1347
00:56:12.847 --> 00:56:16.155
You know, every time he had a
fight after the Belfort fight,

1348
00:56:16.155 --> 00:56:18.375
it was, "Am I
going to get pulled?

1349
00:56:18.375 --> 00:56:20.028
Am I gonna get caught?

1350
00:56:20.028 --> 00:56:22.074
Or am I get pulled from the
fight at the last minute

1351
00:56:22.074 --> 00:56:24.468
and career over.

1352
00:56:24.468 --> 00:56:28.297
And he just kept going.

1353
00:56:28.297 --> 00:56:30.212
MICHAEL:
I've got zero
depth perception, you know.

1354
00:56:30.212 --> 00:56:32.432
The brain's an amazing
thing, you know.

1355
00:56:32.432 --> 00:56:35.348
Once I actually touch the guy,
once I actually got my hands

1356
00:56:35.348 --> 00:56:38.438
on him, I could physically
touch him, my brain could

1357
00:56:38.438 --> 00:56:40.527
figure out exactly where he
was, and then I'd have more

1358
00:56:40.527 --> 00:56:44.705
success, but it was definitely
an evolution all the time.

1359
00:56:44.705 --> 00:56:47.404
DAZ:
I challenge anybody, put
your hand over your right eye,

1360
00:56:47.404 --> 00:56:53.627
and then ride a bike, drive
a car, let someone punch you,

1361
00:56:54.541 --> 00:56:56.108
try and defend it.

1362
00:56:56.108 --> 00:56:59.111
I guarantee that 99 out of
100 would struggle very,

1363
00:56:59.111 --> 00:57:00.634
very badly.

1364
00:57:00.634 --> 00:57:02.027
[♪♪♪]

1365
00:57:07.728 --> 00:57:11.558
KENNY:
How is this guy
actually going to compete

1366
00:57:11.558 --> 00:57:13.038
with one working eye?

1367
00:57:13.038 --> 00:57:14.387
This guy should be retired.

1368
00:57:14.387 --> 00:57:15.519
What is he doing?

1369
00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:18.478
How is he gonna fight?

1370
00:57:18.478 --> 00:57:20.698
Who does this guy-I mean,
someone needs to tell this guy

1371
00:57:20.698 --> 00:57:22.308
he needs to stop.

1372
00:57:22.308 --> 00:57:23.309
This is ridiculous.

1373
00:57:23.309 --> 00:57:25.529
It is difficult
enough with two eyes.

1374
00:57:25.529 --> 00:57:27.095
He's going to do it with one?

1375
00:57:27.095 --> 00:57:30.795
Man, this is, this is insane.

1376
00:57:30.795 --> 00:57:34.407
JOE:
So he has one eye that
looks almost like cross-eyed,

1377
00:57:34.407 --> 00:57:37.236
and it's kinda black, like
he's on ecstasy, like one

1378
00:57:37.236 --> 00:57:38.933
pupil's dilated.

1379
00:57:38.933 --> 00:57:43.242
It's very weird, and
he doesn't give a fuck.

1380
00:57:43.242 --> 00:57:44.417
He's got that one eye fucked
up, and he doesn't give

1381
00:57:44.417 --> 00:57:46.027
a shit.

1382
00:57:46.027 --> 00:57:47.812
He's still going in
there and slinging.

1383
00:57:47.812 --> 00:57:49.466
That guy's born for this.

1384
00:57:49.466 --> 00:57:55.907
[♪♪♪]

1385
00:58:09.442 --> 00:58:13.707
ANNOUNCER:
This is the
main event of the evening.

1386
00:58:13.707 --> 00:58:16.841
JASON:
His eye was a big
part of, of our training.

1387
00:58:16.841 --> 00:58:19.104
And I would test it as
well, because I wanted to know
what

1388
00:58:19.104 --> 00:58:21.585
he was seeing and not seeing.

1389
00:58:21.585 --> 00:58:24.631
Believe me or not, but a
lot of the movement and the

1390
00:58:24.631 --> 00:58:27.808
positioning, to how he
would stand and move, I was
always

1391
00:58:27.808 --> 00:58:31.551
kinda trying to work around
keeping him at an angle where

1392
00:58:31.551 --> 00:58:36.991
his lead was kinda, focusing
on where you're going.

1393
00:58:36.991 --> 00:58:41.126
DAZ:
So he had to compensate
for that by being absolutely

1394
00:58:41.126 --> 00:58:44.433
150% in every other area,
and that's what he went

1395
00:58:44.433 --> 00:58:46.174
and did.

1396
00:58:46.174 --> 00:58:47.698
[applause]

1397
00:58:47.698 --> 00:58:48.437
MIKE:
That's the Michael Bisping
we have known

1398
00:58:48.437 --> 00:58:50.048
since 2006.

1399
00:58:50.048 --> 00:58:50.701
JON:
Look at that.

1400
00:58:50.701 --> 00:58:51.832
Great cardio.

1401
00:58:51.832 --> 00:58:52.833
Combinations.

1402
00:58:52.833 --> 00:58:53.704
MIKE:
Oh...

1403
00:58:53.704 --> 00:58:54.618
JON:
Cung Le goes down.

1404
00:58:54.618 --> 00:58:55.706
Bisping looking to finish.

1405
00:58:55.706 --> 00:58:57.577
It is all over...

1406
00:58:57.577 --> 00:58:59.579
MICHAEL:
Took some time off,
had some problems.

1407
00:58:59.579 --> 00:59:01.363
This is what I'm capable of.

1408
00:59:01.363 --> 00:59:02.974
Believe me, I want
to be world champion.

1409
00:59:02.974 --> 00:59:04.453
I know I have the tools.

1410
00:59:04.453 --> 00:59:06.107
We have to back it up.

1411
00:59:06.107 --> 00:59:07.674
This is the start
of backing it up.

1412
00:59:07.674 --> 00:59:11.722
MICHAEL:
Never ever, ever once
did I contemplate throwing

1413
00:59:11.722 --> 00:59:13.550
the towel in.

1414
00:59:13.550 --> 00:59:17.597
Never once did the thought of
quitting ever cross my mind.

1415
00:59:17.597 --> 00:59:20.165
Never once did I think,
you know, "I could go blind".

1416
00:59:20.165 --> 00:59:22.602
I still had dreams
I wanted to achieve.

1417
00:59:22.602 --> 00:59:24.996
I still wanted to be the world
champion, and I wanted to set

1418
00:59:24.996 --> 00:59:27.651
my family up financially, and
the only way I could do that

1419
00:59:27.651 --> 00:59:31.568
was by still fighting, so I
was willing to risk everything

1420
00:59:31.568 --> 00:59:35.310
to, you know, to go and
achieve those goals.

1421
00:59:35.310 --> 00:59:38.357
[applause]

1422
00:59:38.357 --> 00:59:39.880
MICHAEL:
There's an idiot
called Luke Rockhold who

1423
00:59:39.880 --> 00:59:41.316
doesn't stop talking about me.

1424
00:59:41.316 --> 00:59:43.057
I think he has the hots
for me, to be honest.

1425
00:59:43.057 --> 00:59:44.319
Luke Rockhold,
you called me out.

1426
00:59:44.319 --> 00:59:45.582
If you want to do
it, let's dance.

1427
00:59:45.582 --> 00:59:47.496
Here I am.

1428
00:59:47.496 --> 00:59:50.717
MICHAEL:
Luke and I, we have a
bit of history, and to say

1429
00:59:50.717 --> 00:59:52.589
we don't like each other,
I guess that's a bit

1430
00:59:52.589 --> 00:59:53.328
of an understatement.

1431
01:00:00.814 --> 01:00:03.556
MICHAEL:
Luke Rockhold, I'm
sure he's a nice enough guy.

1432
01:00:03.556 --> 01:00:04.818
I don't really know him.

1433
01:00:04.818 --> 01:00:06.211
I can't pretend to know him.

1434
01:00:06.211 --> 01:00:08.169
But what I do know is I
was training for a fight.

1435
01:00:08.169 --> 01:00:10.389
He came down to help me spar.

1436
01:00:10.389 --> 01:00:13.958
My boxing coach,
Jason Parillo, he,

1437
01:00:13.958 --> 01:00:16.090
he was friends with Luke.

1438
01:00:16.090 --> 01:00:17.178
JASON:
People used to ask me
about that sparring session,

1439
01:00:17.178 --> 01:00:18.092
I'm like, "I don't even
talk about it," because

1440
01:00:18.092 --> 01:00:19.790
sparring is sparring.

1441
01:00:19.790 --> 01:00:21.618
Guys get their ass kicked and
kick other guys' asses

1442
01:00:21.618 --> 01:00:23.489
all the time, you know.

1443
01:00:23.489 --> 01:00:25.839
It's in the gym, and
It is what it is.

1444
01:00:25.839 --> 01:00:26.666
MICHAEL:
I got the better of him.

1445
01:00:26.666 --> 01:00:27.580
I kicked his ass.

1446
01:00:27.580 --> 01:00:28.799
Whatever you wanna
call it, you know.

1447
01:00:28.799 --> 01:00:29.669
And I was, you know, I was,

1448
01:00:29.669 --> 01:00:30.844
"Ah. Sweet".

1449
01:00:30.844 --> 01:00:32.890
I did a TV show in New York.

1450
01:00:32.890 --> 01:00:35.719
The host of the TV show knew
I'd sparred Luke Rockhold, and

1451
01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:37.938
baring in mind Luke Rockhold
was the Strikeforce champion.

1452
01:00:37.938 --> 01:00:38.896
He wasn't in the UFC.

1453
01:00:38.896 --> 01:00:40.549
He was in Strikeforce.

1454
01:00:40.549 --> 01:00:42.987
He was the Strikeforce
champion, and the host said,

1455
01:00:42.987 --> 01:00:44.336
"How did that
sparring match go?"

1456
01:00:44.336 --> 01:00:46.033
I said, "You can't
really talk about sparring.

1457
01:00:46.033 --> 01:00:47.556
Well, let's put it like this.

1458
01:00:47.556 --> 01:00:49.689
I'm the unofficial
Strikeforce champion".

1459
01:00:49.689 --> 01:00:51.691
So, and it was a joke.

1460
01:00:51.691 --> 01:00:52.649
You know.

1461
01:00:52.649 --> 01:00:53.171
It really was just a joke.

1462
01:00:53.171 --> 01:00:54.912
That's my sense of humour.

1463
01:00:54.912 --> 01:00:57.697
And yeah, you know, the little
ego inside me wanted to put it

1464
01:00:57.697 --> 01:00:59.177
out there that I got the
better of him, but it was just

1465
01:00:59.177 --> 01:01:01.266
a sparring match, and
it was just a joke.

1466
01:01:01.266 --> 01:01:04.617
Well, he took offence to it.

1467
01:01:04.617 --> 01:01:06.793
You know, shortly after he was
in the UFC, and he was going

1468
01:01:06.793 --> 01:01:10.754
around talking smack that I'd
said that, and I did say that,

1469
01:01:10.754 --> 01:01:12.756
but it was a joke, and
it was a funny line.

1470
01:01:12.756 --> 01:01:14.279
It got a laugh from everybody.

1471
01:01:14.279 --> 01:01:19.676
JASON:
That right there kinda
started the, the I don't like

1472
01:01:19.676 --> 01:01:22.113
you and you don't like me
and we don't like each other.

1473
01:01:22.113 --> 01:01:24.071
CALLUM:
He talked so much
trash about us, about England,

1474
01:01:24.071 --> 01:01:25.725
about everything, so-.

1475
01:01:25.725 --> 01:01:28.162
MIESHA:
The thing is is
that fighters have strong

1476
01:01:28.162 --> 01:01:31.426
personalities, and you
can't expect that everybody's
going

1477
01:01:31.426 --> 01:01:33.080
to play nicely and
everybody's gonna get along.

1478
01:01:33.080 --> 01:01:35.779
It's not realistic.

1479
01:01:46.659 --> 01:01:46.964
MAN:
Okay.

1480
01:01:46.964 --> 01:01:49.227
Here we go.

1481
01:01:49.227 --> 01:01:50.010
Take 2.

1482
01:01:50.010 --> 01:01:51.098
Luke Rockhold.

1483
01:01:51.098 --> 01:01:52.447
LUKE:
Yeah.

1484
01:01:52.447 --> 01:01:53.753
I don't.

1485
01:01:53.753 --> 01:01:55.537
I don't give a fuck what
people think about the

1486
01:01:55.537 --> 01:01:58.627
situation and who's the
good guy, who's the bad guy.

1487
01:01:58.627 --> 01:02:01.805
I know who I am,
and I know who he is.

1488
01:02:01.805 --> 01:02:02.936
MICHAEL:
And I remember at the
time we did the show called

1489
01:02:02.936 --> 01:02:05.634
Counterpunch with Jon Anik,
and we didn't like each other

1490
01:02:05.634 --> 01:02:07.898
already, but I'm telling you,
after that, we hated

1491
01:02:07.898 --> 01:02:09.421
each other.

1492
01:02:09.421 --> 01:02:10.639
MICHAEL:
I made an
off-the-cuff remark.

1493
01:02:10.639 --> 01:02:11.423
I was having a laugh.

1494
01:02:11.423 --> 01:02:12.293
Okay?

1495
01:02:12.293 --> 01:02:12.990
LUKE:
It's a tasteless remark.

1496
01:02:12.990 --> 01:02:14.339
MICHAEL:
Well, whatever.

1497
01:02:14.339 --> 01:02:14.774
And I'll knock that smug
look off your face, son.

1498
01:02:14.774 --> 01:02:16.907
Believe you me.

1499
01:02:16.907 --> 01:02:17.864
LUKE:
I'll knock that weak
little beard off your face too.

1500
01:02:17.864 --> 01:02:19.083
MICHAEL:
Oh my God.

1501
01:02:19.083 --> 01:02:21.041
JASON:
I think that's
Rockhold's personality

1502
01:02:21.041 --> 01:02:22.651
to be totally honest.

1503
01:02:22.651 --> 01:02:26.917
I think, I don't know if he's
the most understood guy.

1504
01:02:26.917 --> 01:02:28.788
I don't care who Michael
Bisping's fighting, there's

1505
01:02:28.788 --> 01:02:31.573
gonna be some shit-talking,
and Mike's gonna stir the pot,

1506
01:02:31.573 --> 01:02:33.532
you know, and that's
just the way it is.

1507
01:02:33.532 --> 01:02:35.142
[♪♪♪]

1508
01:02:40.539 --> 01:02:41.845
MICHAEL:
The fight was in
Australia, and that's my

1509
01:02:41.845 --> 01:02:44.630
wife's home country, and
when I was walking out to the

1510
01:02:44.630 --> 01:02:47.894
octagon as usual, the arena
felt absolutely electric.

1511
01:02:47.894 --> 01:02:49.374
[♪♪♪]

1512
01:02:54.945 --> 01:02:56.511
MICHAEL:
Fight's started.

1513
01:02:59.079 --> 01:02:59.558
MICHAEL:
I got head bumped.

1514
01:02:59.558 --> 01:03:00.124
Head bump.

1515
01:03:00.124 --> 01:03:01.299
Head bump, there.

1516
01:03:01.299 --> 01:03:01.690
HERB:
Stop.

1517
01:03:01.690 --> 01:03:03.780
Stop.

1518
01:03:03.780 --> 01:03:05.782
DAN:
Michael, Michael Bisping
complaining of a head butt.

1519
01:03:05.782 --> 01:03:06.695
MICHAEL:
Boom.

1520
01:03:06.695 --> 01:03:08.219
He head butted me
and opens the cut.

1521
01:03:08.219 --> 01:03:09.394
MICHAEL:
That's the scar.

1522
01:03:09.394 --> 01:03:11.309
That's the cut,
is a big deep cut.

1523
01:03:11.309 --> 01:03:13.659
From there the fight was
downhill, all the way,

1524
01:03:13.659 --> 01:03:15.095
as I say.

1525
01:03:15.095 --> 01:03:17.402
Could only just, just see
out a tiny bit if I turned

1526
01:03:17.402 --> 01:03:19.534
a certain way out of this eye.

1527
01:03:19.534 --> 01:03:21.667
Remember, the doctor
only just cleared me.

1528
01:03:21.667 --> 01:03:23.103
This eye.

1529
01:03:23.103 --> 01:03:24.931
This eye, blood was
pumping into it.

1530
01:03:24.931 --> 01:03:25.845
I couldn't see.

1531
01:03:25.845 --> 01:03:26.890
I'd wipe it.

1532
01:03:26.890 --> 01:03:28.761
Everything'd be red.

1533
01:03:28.761 --> 01:03:31.024
I'd blink a few times and
I could see a little bit.

1534
01:03:31.024 --> 01:03:33.679
DAN:
He's been wiping
the blood out of his eye.

1535
01:03:33.679 --> 01:03:35.159
It seems to be bothering
him a little bit.

1536
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:36.725
JOHN:
Yeah, the Count would
be a little bit worried

1537
01:03:36.725 --> 01:03:37.901
about that.

1538
01:03:37.901 --> 01:03:40.077
Nice combination there.

1539
01:03:40.077 --> 01:03:42.253
LUKE:
There's nothing really
there, and so little by little

1540
01:03:42.253 --> 01:03:44.168
I found his timing.

1541
01:03:44.168 --> 01:03:46.344
DAN:
Oh.

1542
01:03:46.344 --> 01:03:47.867
LUKE:
Came back that second
round and really kinda

1543
01:03:47.867 --> 01:03:50.000
was more aware.

1544
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:51.784
DAN:
Round number 2.

1545
01:03:51.784 --> 01:03:55.005
The cut on Michael
Bisping's left eye does not look

1546
01:03:55.005 --> 01:03:56.963
like a good one.

1547
01:03:56.963 --> 01:04:00.010
LUKE:
Found my shot right
off the bat, and then started

1548
01:04:00.010 --> 01:04:02.186
working my kicks, and
then I landed that ah-.

1549
01:04:02.186 --> 01:04:03.535
DAN:
Straight left.

1550
01:04:03.535 --> 01:04:04.318
LUKE:
Couple of my,
my specialities.

1551
01:04:04.318 --> 01:04:05.015
DAN:
Front leg.

1552
01:04:05.015 --> 01:04:05.972
Oh... A head kick.

1553
01:04:05.972 --> 01:04:07.017
Bisping's down.

1554
01:04:07.017 --> 01:04:08.801
JOHN:
Good leg kick.

1555
01:04:08.801 --> 01:04:10.803
DAN:
Oh my, could be it...
This could be the finish...

1556
01:04:10.803 --> 01:04:13.197
MICHAEL:
I guess I got kicked
in the head and I didn't know

1557
01:04:13.197 --> 01:04:14.763
what was going on, and next
minute I'm standing there

1558
01:04:14.763 --> 01:04:16.417
and the fight's over.

1559
01:04:16.417 --> 01:04:17.897
DAN:
Takes mount position.

1560
01:04:17.897 --> 01:04:19.029
JOHN:
Luke Rockhold.

1561
01:04:19.029 --> 01:04:20.160
DAN:
Wow...

1562
01:04:20.160 --> 01:04:21.858
JOHN:
What a mounted guillotine.

1563
01:04:21.858 --> 01:04:24.338
LUKE:
I knew exactly
what I was gonna do.

1564
01:04:24.338 --> 01:04:26.645
I did exactly what
I was gonna do.

1565
01:04:26.645 --> 01:04:28.908
I told him I was gonna
pick him up off the canvas.

1566
01:04:28.908 --> 01:04:29.778
Said, "You're gonna wake up.

1567
01:04:29.778 --> 01:04:31.258
I'm gonna fuckin'
give you my hand.

1568
01:04:31.258 --> 01:04:32.564
I'm gonna pick you
up off the canvas.

1569
01:04:32.564 --> 01:04:33.782
Dusted him off".

1570
01:04:33.782 --> 01:04:38.265
That's the difference
between me and Michael.

1571
01:04:38.265 --> 01:04:41.007
MICHAEL:
It just hurt inside,
because I knew that wasn't the

1572
01:04:41.007 --> 01:04:44.924
best version of me, but by
saying anything highlighted

1573
01:04:44.924 --> 01:04:48.841
that probably or maybe I
shouldn't have been fighting.

1574
01:04:48.841 --> 01:04:51.583
So yeah, it was a fucked
situation, if I'm honest.

1575
01:04:51.583 --> 01:04:53.411
I'm standing there against a
world-class opponent,

1576
01:04:53.411 --> 01:04:56.022
one of the best to ever do it.

1577
01:04:56.022 --> 01:04:57.110
ARIEL:
And I believe that was
the first time that

1578
01:04:57.110 --> 01:04:58.198
Michael Bisping had ever been
submitted, and that was

1579
01:04:58.198 --> 01:05:00.200
very notable.

1580
01:05:00.200 --> 01:05:02.637
At the time, I really did
think that that was the end,

1581
01:05:02.637 --> 01:05:04.422
that maybe he would stick
around for a couple more

1582
01:05:04.422 --> 01:05:06.119
fights, but you can't
beat Luke Rockhold.

1583
01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:07.773
How are you ever going to find
yourself back in the

1584
01:05:07.773 --> 01:05:09.427
title picture?

1585
01:05:09.427 --> 01:05:10.819
MICHAEL:
I'll still fight.

1586
01:05:10.819 --> 01:05:11.777
I love doing this.

1587
01:05:11.777 --> 01:05:12.734
Me?

1588
01:05:12.734 --> 01:05:13.822
I'm going nowhere.

1589
01:05:13.822 --> 01:05:15.520
[♪♪♪]

1590
01:05:22.222 --> 01:05:24.137
MICHAEL:
It was shortly after
my eye injury, that I remember

1591
01:05:24.137 --> 01:05:28.011
one morning I was running down
here, and I look over, and I

1592
01:05:28.011 --> 01:05:32.972
see the Altarena, and I've had
many fights there, many main

1593
01:05:32.972 --> 01:05:36.628
events, and then when I saw
the arena, that just

1594
01:05:36.628 --> 01:05:38.021
hit home to me.

1595
01:05:38.021 --> 01:05:41.981
I thought, "I'm never
gonna fight there again.

1596
01:05:41.981 --> 01:05:42.503
I'm never gonna fight.

1597
01:05:42.503 --> 01:05:44.462
I've got one fucking eye.

1598
01:05:44.462 --> 01:05:47.421
Got one eye, a bad knee,
can hardly run on it.

1599
01:05:47.421 --> 01:05:48.857
And I stopped and, you know.

1600
01:05:48.857 --> 01:05:50.642
Yeah.

1601
01:05:50.642 --> 01:05:53.340
I was crying, I'm almost
crying thinking about it now.

1602
01:05:53.340 --> 01:05:54.385
[throat clearing]

1603
01:05:55.821 --> 01:05:57.649
[laughing]

1604
01:05:57.649 --> 01:06:00.739
I am fucking crying, but
yeah, no, it was, it was hard.

1605
01:06:00.739 --> 01:06:03.002
It was hard.

1606
01:06:03.002 --> 01:06:03.829
I thought, "I'm done.

1607
01:06:03.829 --> 01:06:04.786
I'm over.

1608
01:06:04.786 --> 01:06:05.744
I'm damaged.

1609
01:06:05.744 --> 01:06:06.353
I'm broken.

1610
01:06:06.353 --> 01:06:08.181
Can't do it anymore.

1611
01:06:08.181 --> 01:06:12.055
I did everything I could to
get past those medicals, lied,

1612
01:06:12.055 --> 01:06:15.710
fuckin' conned people, lied
through my fucking teeth,

1613
01:06:15.710 --> 01:06:17.190
cheated.

1614
01:06:17.190 --> 01:06:18.539
It wasn't for me.

1615
01:06:18.539 --> 01:06:19.453
It was for my family.

1616
01:06:19.453 --> 01:06:21.107
You know what I mean?

1617
01:06:21.107 --> 01:06:24.632
I want to give them everything
I can, and that was only

1618
01:06:24.632 --> 01:06:27.113
through fighting, and giving
up never, never entered

1619
01:06:27.113 --> 01:06:28.288
my mind for a second.

1620
01:06:28.288 --> 01:06:32.336
[♪♪♪]

1621
01:06:32.336 --> 01:06:34.077
ARIEL:
I remember there was
one moment in particular where

1622
01:06:34.077 --> 01:06:35.861
he laid out a plan.

1623
01:06:35.861 --> 01:06:37.906
He said, "I'm gonna beat
CB Dolloway, then I'm gonna

1624
01:06:37.906 --> 01:06:40.083
fight this guy, then I'm gonna
fight another guy, and around

1625
01:06:40.083 --> 01:06:42.955
this time next year, I'm
gonna be a UFC middleweight

1626
01:06:42.955 --> 01:06:47.133
champion," and I remember
sitting there, and kind of

1627
01:06:47.133 --> 01:06:51.050
thinking like, "Man, this
is a little bit sad, because

1628
01:06:51.050 --> 01:06:53.096
this is not going to happen.

1629
01:06:53.096 --> 01:06:54.227
Mate, your career is not
going in the right direction

1630
01:06:54.227 --> 01:06:55.576
any more.

1631
01:06:55.576 --> 01:06:57.013
You've got the eye issue.

1632
01:06:57.013 --> 01:06:58.144
It's just not going well.

1633
01:06:58.144 --> 01:07:00.103
[♪♪♪]

1634
01:07:06.674 --> 01:07:08.111
MICHAEL:
So what's
going on right now?

1635
01:07:08.111 --> 01:07:11.549
LUCAS:
Um, um, he set it up
with cookies, and the carrots,

1636
01:07:11.549 --> 01:07:14.465
and I'm gonna set up
the milk and beer.

1637
01:07:14.465 --> 01:07:16.162
MICHAEL:
Who are
the carrots for?

1638
01:07:16.162 --> 01:07:17.772
LUCAS:
Um, reindeers.

1639
01:07:17.772 --> 01:07:19.122
MICHAEL:
And the
cookies are for who?

1640
01:07:19.122 --> 01:07:20.340
LUCAS:
Santa.

1641
01:07:20.340 --> 01:07:21.385
MICHAEL:
And who
is the milk for?

1642
01:07:21.385 --> 01:07:22.821
LUCAS:
Santa.

1643
01:07:22.821 --> 01:07:23.517
MICHAEL:
And we're gonna
give him a beer as well?

1644
01:07:23.517 --> 01:07:25.519
LUCAS:
Yeah...

1645
01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:26.216
MICHAEL:
Ah yeah, 'cause he might

1646
01:07:26.216 --> 01:07:27.608
get thirsty.

1647
01:07:27.608 --> 01:07:28.392
Alright, let's put
some milk in this.

1648
01:07:28.392 --> 01:07:30.568
LUCAS:
Okay...

1649
01:07:30.568 --> 01:07:32.004
MICHAEL:
It was Christmas Eve.

1650
01:07:32.004 --> 01:07:33.310
I got a phone call from
Dana White Christmas Eve,

1651
01:07:33.310 --> 01:07:35.007
and I'm, you know.

1652
01:07:35.007 --> 01:07:37.749
Dana's a good guy, but he
doesn't usually call me on

1653
01:07:37.749 --> 01:07:40.621
Christmas Eve to wish me
Merry Christmas, so I see Dana

1654
01:07:40.621 --> 01:07:41.840
on the phone, on the screen.

1655
01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:42.319
I'm like,

1656
01:07:42.319 --> 01:07:43.842
"Oh. What's this?"

1657
01:07:43.842 --> 01:07:44.234
MICHAEL:
Oh.

1658
01:07:44.234 --> 01:07:45.104
Dana White.

1659
01:07:45.104 --> 01:07:45.800
Better take this one.

1660
01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:47.324
[sniffing]

1661
01:07:47.324 --> 01:07:48.064
MICHAEL:
Damn.

1662
01:07:48.064 --> 01:07:48.803
My phone's not working.

1663
01:07:48.803 --> 01:07:49.500
Just approve.

1664
01:07:49.500 --> 01:07:50.805
I'm trying to answer.

1665
01:07:50.805 --> 01:07:51.328
It's dead.

1666
01:07:51.328 --> 01:07:52.807
It won't answer.

1667
01:07:52.807 --> 01:07:54.244
Bloody phone.

1668
01:07:54.244 --> 01:07:55.549
REBECCA:
What?

1669
01:07:55.549 --> 01:07:55.984
MICHAEL:
It won't...
Ah, there we go.

1670
01:07:55.984 --> 01:07:56.985
Dana.

1671
01:07:56.985 --> 01:07:58.335
TV:
Very, very strong for-.

1672
01:07:58.335 --> 01:07:59.205
MICHAEL:
Hey.

1673
01:07:59.205 --> 01:07:59.814
What's up, buddy.

1674
01:07:59.814 --> 01:08:00.511
How you doing?

1675
01:08:00.511 --> 01:08:00.902
MICHAEL:
Long story short.

1676
01:08:00.902 --> 01:08:01.947
He says, "Hey.

1677
01:08:01.947 --> 01:08:02.861
Change of opponent.

1678
01:08:02.861 --> 01:08:03.905
You're now fighting
Anderson Silva".

1679
01:08:03.905 --> 01:08:04.689
So, I'm, "Oh.

1680
01:08:04.689 --> 01:08:05.081
Alright.

1681
01:08:05.081 --> 01:08:05.907
Cool".

1682
01:08:05.907 --> 01:08:06.256
He's like, "Yeah.

1683
01:08:06.256 --> 01:08:07.822
Merry Christmas".

1684
01:08:07.822 --> 01:08:09.911
The conversation, there
was more to it than that.

1685
01:08:09.911 --> 01:08:12.044
He asked me if I wanted to
take it, but of course I did.

1686
01:08:12.044 --> 01:08:14.220
I put the phone down,
and I was elated.

1687
01:08:14.220 --> 01:08:19.007
MIKE:
The greatest
champion in UFC history.

1688
01:08:19.007 --> 01:08:21.097
MICHAEL:
Anderson Silva was
the most dominant champion

1689
01:08:21.097 --> 01:08:22.228
the sport had ever seen.

1690
01:08:22.228 --> 01:08:25.449
The way that he'd finish
people was mind-blowing.

1691
01:08:25.449 --> 01:08:28.060
The way, the creativity of his
striking, and all these type

1692
01:08:28.060 --> 01:08:30.149
of things, he was just,
it was marvellous.

1693
01:08:30.149 --> 01:08:32.020
It was incredible.

1694
01:08:32.020 --> 01:08:34.849
It was beautiful, and I always
wanted to fight that guy.

1695
01:08:34.849 --> 01:08:37.461
To fight in London, the
nation's capitol against one

1696
01:08:37.461 --> 01:08:39.941
of the greatest fighters that
ever lived, for me, it was

1697
01:08:39.941 --> 01:08:42.553
just incredible.

1698
01:08:42.553 --> 01:08:44.468
MICHAEL:
Merry Christmas.

1699
01:08:44.468 --> 01:08:45.295
GROUP:
Merry Christmas.

1700
01:08:45.295 --> 01:08:46.034
MICHAEL:
Okay.

1701
01:08:46.034 --> 01:08:48.559
Say, "Bye".

1702
01:08:48.559 --> 01:08:51.127
LUCAS:
Bye... Have a good
holiday, and Merry Christmas.

1703
01:08:51.127 --> 01:08:52.650
BRENDAN:
How about
Bisping - Anderson Silva?

1704
01:08:52.650 --> 01:08:54.217
JOE:
Ah, you know what?

1705
01:08:54.217 --> 01:08:54.521
BRENDAN:
I was blowing
your phone up during that.

1706
01:08:54.521 --> 01:08:55.261
JOE:
Yeah man.

1707
01:08:55.261 --> 01:08:55.783
BRENDAN:
Blowing you up.

1708
01:08:55.783 --> 01:08:56.523
JOE:
You know what?

1709
01:08:56.523 --> 01:08:58.221
BRYAN:
It was amazing.

1710
01:08:58.221 --> 01:08:59.439
JOE:
I, first of all, Bisping
is one of the toughest

1711
01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:01.137
fucking men on the planet.

1712
01:09:01.137 --> 01:09:01.485
BRENDAN:
God.

1713
01:09:01.485 --> 01:09:03.313
MICHAEL:
Yes.

1714
01:09:03.313 --> 01:09:04.357
It's a tough test for me,
but I believe I will prevail.

1715
01:09:04.357 --> 01:09:06.011
I have to win.

1716
01:09:06.011 --> 01:09:07.360
I'm not getting any younger,
and I want to fight

1717
01:09:07.360 --> 01:09:08.883
for the belt.

1718
01:09:08.883 --> 01:09:10.102
If I lose, this isn't
good for my career.

1719
01:09:10.102 --> 01:09:11.321
I can't wait.

1720
01:09:11.321 --> 01:09:12.278
I'm super excited.

1721
01:09:12.278 --> 01:09:13.758
[♪♪♪]

1722
01:09:19.459 --> 01:09:20.939
MICHAEL:
Before the fight, I
was getting taped up,

1723
01:09:20.939 --> 01:09:23.246
and I remember I just felt
so focused and ready.

1724
01:09:23.246 --> 01:09:24.943
I remember I saw Anderson.

1725
01:09:24.943 --> 01:09:27.380
He was walking out looking so
loose and confident,

1726
01:09:27.380 --> 01:09:29.208
and you know, he should.

1727
01:09:29.208 --> 01:09:30.514
I mean, he's Anderson Silva.

1728
01:09:30.514 --> 01:09:33.952
[♪♪♪]

1729
01:09:33.952 --> 01:09:35.127
ARIEL:
The atmosphere
was amazing.

1730
01:09:35.127 --> 01:09:40.132
I remember him walking out to
"Song 2" by Blur,

1731
01:09:40.132 --> 01:09:43.179
and the place was just
absolutely on it's feet.

1732
01:09:43.179 --> 01:09:44.615
[♪♪♪]

1733
01:09:50.098 --> 01:09:52.100
JOHN:
The main event
of the evening.

1734
01:09:52.100 --> 01:09:57.541
Michael Bisping
versus Anderson Silva.

1735
01:09:57.541 --> 01:09:59.499
ARIEL:
I think a lot of us
were a little worried, because

1736
01:09:59.499 --> 01:10:02.285
Anderson was still Anderson
and sharp as hell and very

1737
01:10:02.285 --> 01:10:03.677
dangerous on his feet.

1738
01:10:03.677 --> 01:10:04.765
MICHAEL:
Everyone thought I was stupid.

1739
01:10:04.765 --> 01:10:06.463
Everybody thought I was
foolish, but I thought,

1740
01:10:06.463 --> 01:10:07.725
"I can beat this guy.

1741
01:10:07.725 --> 01:10:09.422
I know my style can
beat this guy".

1742
01:10:09.422 --> 01:10:10.510
Always wanted to fight him.

1743
01:10:10.510 --> 01:10:13.644
[♪♪♪]

1744
01:10:13.644 --> 01:10:14.514
DAN:
Don't even want to say
anything, John, I'm right on

1745
01:10:14.514 --> 01:10:16.299
the end of my seat right now.

1746
01:10:16.299 --> 01:10:18.431
MICHAEL:
Boom, I catch him
with a left hook, and he uses

1747
01:10:18.431 --> 01:10:20.477
his hand to support himself to
stop him going down,

1748
01:10:20.477 --> 01:10:22.522
and then the round ends.

1749
01:10:22.522 --> 01:10:24.220
JOHN:
Bisping found the
target very nicely indeed.

1750
01:10:24.220 --> 01:10:27.048
Silva looking to embrace.

1751
01:10:27.048 --> 01:10:29.355
MICHAEL:
And then he comes
over to give me a hug, as

1752
01:10:29.355 --> 01:10:32.663
if to say "Wow, good for
you, you managed to land

1753
01:10:32.663 --> 01:10:34.752
some punches on the great
Anderson Silva".

1754
01:10:34.752 --> 01:10:36.188
Don't play those games with me.

1755
01:10:36.188 --> 01:10:38.190
I'm not gonna fall
for no mind games.

1756
01:10:38.190 --> 01:10:38.669
I'm not hugging you.

1757
01:10:38.669 --> 01:10:40.279
You're my fuckin' enemy.

1758
01:10:40.279 --> 01:10:42.020
So fuck off.

1759
01:10:42.020 --> 01:10:45.502
[♪♪♪]

1760
01:10:45.502 --> 01:10:46.416
DAN:
Michael Bisping needs
to be confident in his

1761
01:10:46.416 --> 01:10:48.156
punch placement.

1762
01:10:48.156 --> 01:10:51.595
The hesitation will
cause him to miss.

1763
01:10:51.595 --> 01:10:53.031
MICHAEL:
And he's doing this,

1764
01:10:53.031 --> 01:10:54.685
waiting for me.

1765
01:10:54.685 --> 01:10:57.905
So I'm here, tries
to take a step back.

1766
01:10:57.905 --> 01:10:58.950
DAN:
The difference
being Michael Bisping

1767
01:10:58.950 --> 01:11:00.778
is considerably faster
than Stephan Bonnar.

1768
01:11:00.778 --> 01:11:01.735
MICHAEL:
When you
fight, I'll fight.

1769
01:11:01.735 --> 01:11:03.084
But I'm not gonna
play your games.

1770
01:11:03.084 --> 01:11:05.043
I'm not gonna fight a guy
that's trying to mock me

1771
01:11:05.043 --> 01:11:07.263
by standing in a completely
defenceless posture.

1772
01:11:07.263 --> 01:11:08.002
You know?

1773
01:11:08.002 --> 01:11:09.700
That's an embarrassment to me.

1774
01:11:09.700 --> 01:11:11.136
I'm not gonna play that game.

1775
01:11:11.136 --> 01:11:13.225
[♪♪♪]

1776
01:11:13.225 --> 01:11:14.487
DAN:
Oh, and again...

1777
01:11:14.487 --> 01:11:16.010
MICHAEL:
Falls down to the floor.

1778
01:11:16.010 --> 01:11:17.185
I'm like "Holy
shit, here we go".

1779
01:11:17.185 --> 01:11:19.057
I run down.

1780
01:11:19.057 --> 01:11:20.406
JOHN:
Anderson goes down for a
second, but an upper cut

1781
01:11:20.406 --> 01:11:21.886
from Michael Bisping.

1782
01:11:21.886 --> 01:11:23.191
MICHAEL:
And I just
start teeing off on him.

1783
01:11:23.191 --> 01:11:24.367
Ground and pound.

1784
01:11:24.367 --> 01:11:26.107
I'm going to the body,
I'm going to the head.

1785
01:11:26.107 --> 01:11:28.022
Finished the round
really strong.

1786
01:11:28.022 --> 01:11:31.591
JOHN:
This definitely puts him in
control in this fight so far.

1787
01:11:31.591 --> 01:11:33.419
This is exactly where Michael
wants to be going into

1788
01:11:33.419 --> 01:11:34.420
the third round.

1789
01:11:34.420 --> 01:11:35.900
[♪♪♪]

1790
01:11:37.902 --> 01:11:39.860
DAN:
Silva is looking
to close the distance.

1791
01:11:39.860 --> 01:11:41.514
MICHAEL:
My mouth piece,
my gum shield, ptwh,

1792
01:11:41.514 --> 01:11:43.473
went out of my mouth.

1793
01:11:43.473 --> 01:11:45.213
You know, and Anderson
Silva's known for being

1794
01:11:45.213 --> 01:11:45.997
a devastating striker.

1795
01:11:45.997 --> 01:11:48.129
And my mouth piece has come out.

1796
01:11:48.129 --> 01:11:48.956
I want it back in.

1797
01:11:48.956 --> 01:11:50.610
There's a reason we ware them.

1798
01:11:50.610 --> 01:11:52.003
DAN:
Anderson Silva style,
there's the thai clinch.

1799
01:11:52.003 --> 01:11:54.832
MICHAEL:
This is
my bad eye, okay?

1800
01:11:54.832 --> 01:11:55.833
Don't see out of this eye.

1801
01:11:55.833 --> 01:11:57.269
I turn.

1802
01:11:57.269 --> 01:12:00.054
I say "Ref, my mouth
piece," pointing down there.

1803
01:12:00.054 --> 01:12:02.318
And as I do that, I
can't see Anderson there.

1804
01:12:02.318 --> 01:12:04.015
Right?

1805
01:12:04.015 --> 01:12:05.669
I can't even see my hand
right in front of my face.

1806
01:12:05.669 --> 01:12:06.844
I can't see that at all.

1807
01:12:06.844 --> 01:12:08.324
That doesn't exist to me.

1808
01:12:08.324 --> 01:12:10.064
So Anderson didn't exist.

1809
01:12:10.064 --> 01:12:11.892
I go "Ref," and then
as I do that, I look around

1810
01:12:11.892 --> 01:12:13.851
and he's fucking in mid-air.

1811
01:12:13.851 --> 01:12:14.460
Boom...

1812
01:12:14.460 --> 01:12:15.156
DAN:
Oh...

1813
01:12:15.156 --> 01:12:16.332
Jumping knee...

1814
01:12:16.332 --> 01:12:17.594
Michael goes down...

1815
01:12:17.594 --> 01:12:23.861
[♪♪♪]

1816
01:12:28.431 --> 01:12:29.997
DAZ:
We're screaming
at the top of the cage.

1817
01:12:29.997 --> 01:12:32.478
The fight's not
over to Herb Dean.

1818
01:12:32.478 --> 01:12:38.354
MICHAEL:
As the knee
lands, the round ends.

1819
01:12:38.354 --> 01:12:40.921
And the referee comes
over, Herb Dean.

1820
01:12:40.921 --> 01:12:43.924
And I look at him,
and I go, I'm not out.

1821
01:12:43.924 --> 01:12:46.187
And he says "Yeah, I know.

1822
01:12:46.187 --> 01:12:47.450
Fight's still on.

1823
01:12:47.450 --> 01:12:49.016
The fight's not over".

1824
01:12:49.016 --> 01:12:50.844
And I slowly get
back to my feet.

1825
01:12:50.844 --> 01:12:52.411
Anderson's on top of the fence.

1826
01:12:52.411 --> 01:12:54.326
He's celebrating.

1827
01:12:54.326 --> 01:12:55.980
DAN:
Anderson Silva is
convinced that this fight

1828
01:12:55.980 --> 01:12:58.156
is over, but Herb Dean
is saying it's not.

1829
01:12:58.156 --> 01:12:59.636
JOHN:
Well and that's
Michael Bisping.

1830
01:12:59.636 --> 01:13:01.028
[♪♪♪]

1831
01:13:01.028 --> 01:13:06.512
JOHN:
The fight's not over.

1832
01:13:06.512 --> 01:13:07.513
MICHAEL:
People always say
"Oh yeah, could you

1833
01:13:07.513 --> 01:13:09.254
imagine the adrenaline dump
that Anderson went

1834
01:13:09.254 --> 01:13:11.387
through, right?

1835
01:13:11.387 --> 01:13:14.433
Ooh, he won his fight and he
jumped on top of the cage and

1836
01:13:14.433 --> 01:13:15.478
then he found out he hadn't
won the fight and the fight

1837
01:13:15.478 --> 01:13:16.479
was still going on.

1838
01:13:16.479 --> 01:13:18.829
He had a huge adrenalin dump".

1839
01:13:18.829 --> 01:13:22.485
Can you imagine getting kneed
in the fucking face, and your

1840
01:13:22.485 --> 01:13:25.052
brain nearly being knocked off
your shoulders and your face

1841
01:13:25.052 --> 01:13:26.880
being split open a million
different ways and

1842
01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:28.491
blood pouring out.

1843
01:13:28.491 --> 01:13:30.928
I think that adrenaline
dump is a little bit worse.

1844
01:13:30.928 --> 01:13:34.279
I mean call me stupid, but so
that always kind of bothered

1845
01:13:34.279 --> 01:13:36.455
me when people say that.

1846
01:13:36.455 --> 01:13:38.414
DAZ:
When he gets up for round
four against Anderson Silva,

1847
01:13:38.414 --> 01:13:39.023
Mike's unconscious.

1848
01:13:39.023 --> 01:13:41.025
He doesn't know what day it is.

1849
01:13:41.025 --> 01:13:42.766
He doesn't even
know where he is.

1850
01:13:42.766 --> 01:13:44.202
JASON:
This fucking guy.

1851
01:13:44.202 --> 01:13:46.378
This fucking guy right here
man is just special, man.

1852
01:13:46.378 --> 01:13:47.727
It's another animal.

1853
01:13:47.727 --> 01:13:53.733
You know, I could see his
determination through his eyes.

1854
01:13:53.733 --> 01:13:54.691
You know?

1855
01:13:54.691 --> 01:13:56.214
And he only had one of 'em.

1856
01:13:56.214 --> 01:13:58.738
[♪♪♪]

1857
01:13:58.738 --> 01:14:00.174
MICHAEL:
Anyway, round four
starts, no cut man, fuck it.

1858
01:14:00.174 --> 01:14:01.785
Let's go.

1859
01:14:01.785 --> 01:14:03.264
DAN:
Michael Bisping is not
giving Anderson Silva

1860
01:14:03.264 --> 01:14:04.788
an inch here.

1861
01:14:04.788 --> 01:14:05.789
MICHAEL:
I out-boxed the guy,
backed him up against the

1862
01:14:05.789 --> 01:14:07.660
fence here.

1863
01:14:07.660 --> 01:14:09.009
He's there, he's trying to
throw shots but I was putting

1864
01:14:09.009 --> 01:14:11.795
together 6-7 punch
combinations, backing off

1865
01:14:11.795 --> 01:14:14.450
just when I had to.

1866
01:14:14.450 --> 01:14:15.886
JOHN:
Although Anderson Silva
looks like he's playing,

1867
01:14:15.886 --> 01:14:17.670
Michael Bisping is
landing shots here.

1868
01:14:17.670 --> 01:14:19.498
JASON:
Round four, we
got one more to go, okay?

1869
01:14:19.498 --> 01:14:22.327
Listen, we're still gonna
win this fight, Mike.

1870
01:14:22.327 --> 01:14:24.503
MICHAEL:
Jason Perillo had
said the things that

1871
01:14:24.503 --> 01:14:25.461
I needed to hear.

1872
01:14:25.461 --> 01:14:26.418
I'm tired.

1873
01:14:26.418 --> 01:14:28.681
I'm hurt.

1874
01:14:28.681 --> 01:14:30.335
My face is falling apart.

1875
01:14:30.335 --> 01:14:31.467
You know?

1876
01:14:31.467 --> 01:14:33.730
But I'm like, he's
gonna have to kill me.

1877
01:14:33.730 --> 01:14:36.254
If he wants to win this fight,
there's no way I'm gonna quit.

1878
01:14:36.254 --> 01:14:38.299
I've never been
beaten in England.

1879
01:14:38.299 --> 01:14:40.432
I've walked in with the
Union Jack over my shoulders.

1880
01:14:40.432 --> 01:14:42.652
I've got 20,000 people at
the most iconic arena

1881
01:14:42.652 --> 01:14:43.696
in the world.

1882
01:14:43.696 --> 01:14:45.611
The O2 Arena in London.

1883
01:14:45.611 --> 01:14:48.353
If he thinks it's gonna take a
few cuts on my face for me

1884
01:14:48.353 --> 01:14:51.225
to quit, he doesn't
know who I am.

1885
01:14:51.225 --> 01:14:52.531
JOHN:
Do you want to continue?

1886
01:14:52.531 --> 01:14:53.576
Of course you want to continue.

1887
01:14:53.576 --> 01:14:54.533
Are you Michael Bisping?

1888
01:14:54.533 --> 01:14:55.752
Of course you want to continue.

1889
01:14:55.752 --> 01:14:58.885
[♪♪♪]

1890
01:15:06.458 --> 01:15:09.635
JOHN:
Oh! Front kick from
Anderson Silva!

1891
01:15:09.635 --> 01:15:11.594
MICHAEL:
And he hits me, I kind of
go down and hit the floor.

1892
01:15:11.594 --> 01:15:12.769
I catch myself.

1893
01:15:12.769 --> 01:15:15.685
[♪♪♪]

1894
01:15:34.138 --> 01:15:41.362
JOHN:
And it is met by a huge
cheer from the London crowd.

1895
01:15:41.362 --> 01:15:42.450
MICHAEL:
And I'm standing
there and I'm thinking

1896
01:15:42.450 --> 01:15:43.147
"Fuck, fuck, come on.

1897
01:15:43.147 --> 01:15:44.017
Please".

1898
01:15:44.017 --> 01:15:45.410
Biggest fight of my life.

1899
01:15:45.410 --> 01:15:47.543
Everybody always said
"Great fighter, good

1900
01:15:47.543 --> 01:15:49.980
fighter, but he can never
win the big ones".

1901
01:15:49.980 --> 01:15:51.459
I'm like,
"Come on, come on!"

1902
01:15:51.459 --> 01:15:52.765
All of a sudden.

1903
01:15:52.765 --> 01:15:58.162
MAN:
For the winner by
unanimous decision,

1904
01:15:58.162 --> 01:16:05.169
Michael "The Count" Bisping...

1905
01:16:08.781 --> 01:16:09.782
ARIEL:
Michael Bisping is tougher
than a $2 steak.

1906
01:16:09.782 --> 01:16:13.133
He is hard to put away.

1907
01:16:13.133 --> 01:16:14.265
He is hard to finish.

1908
01:16:14.265 --> 01:16:15.745
He is a brawler.

1909
01:16:15.745 --> 01:16:17.181
MICKEY:
See, that's what
makes Michael so god damned

1910
01:16:17.181 --> 01:16:20.401
dangerous is his will to win.

1911
01:16:20.401 --> 01:16:23.840
I think the fan base that
Michael has proves it.

1912
01:16:23.840 --> 01:16:25.711
In the beginning, used to
think "Oh, this arrogant

1913
01:16:25.711 --> 01:16:28.975
guy running around telling
everybody 'fuck you,

1914
01:16:28.975 --> 01:16:30.629
blah blah'," you know.

1915
01:16:30.629 --> 01:16:34.807
All those people that
hated him now love him.

1916
01:16:34.807 --> 01:16:37.723
[♪♪♪]

1917
01:16:37.723 --> 01:16:38.942
MICHAEL:
For me, that
was my World Title Fight.

1918
01:16:38.942 --> 01:16:40.291
It was in England.

1919
01:16:40.291 --> 01:16:42.510
It was in London,
the nation's capital.

1920
01:16:42.510 --> 01:16:47.690
20,000 English fans
screaming, going crazy.

1921
01:16:47.690 --> 01:16:51.868
Every fibre in my body, every
ounce of grit, determination

1922
01:16:51.868 --> 01:16:54.827
that I had, I had to
muster to win that fight.

1923
01:16:54.827 --> 01:16:57.874
JASON:
Beating Anderson Silva
was just something that Mike

1924
01:16:57.874 --> 01:16:59.745
dreamed about for many years.

1925
01:16:59.745 --> 01:17:01.834
It's something that, you know,
anybody in that industry,

1926
01:17:01.834 --> 01:17:04.750
any coach would love to have a
victory over Anderson Silva.

1927
01:17:04.750 --> 01:17:07.448
Any fighter would love to have
a victory over Anderson Silva.

1928
01:17:07.448 --> 01:17:10.147
I mean there's one of the
greatest fighters of all time.

1929
01:17:10.147 --> 01:17:14.455
KATHLEEN:
And he run down from
the ring and give me a kiss.

1930
01:17:14.455 --> 01:17:16.762
And Becky was behind, he give
her a kiss as well

1931
01:17:16.762 --> 01:17:18.590
and run back up.

1932
01:17:18.590 --> 01:17:19.722
But yeah.

1933
01:17:19.722 --> 01:17:20.940
He's like that.

1934
01:17:20.940 --> 01:17:22.812
[♪♪♪]

1935
01:17:26.032 --> 01:17:26.903
JOE:
That's it, that's it.

1936
01:17:26.903 --> 01:17:29.557
We got a new champion.

1937
01:17:29.557 --> 01:17:32.735
ANNOUNCER:
Luke Rockhold
is the new UFC Middleweight

1938
01:17:32.735 --> 01:17:34.432
Champion of the World...

1939
01:17:34.432 --> 01:17:35.563
JOE:
Wow.

1940
01:17:35.563 --> 01:17:39.698
[♪♪♪]

1941
01:17:39.698 --> 01:17:41.352
AGUSTUS:
A device that
controls every military

1942
01:17:41.352 --> 01:17:44.877
satellite in the world has
fallen into the hands of

1943
01:17:44.877 --> 01:17:46.662
four very dangerous guys.

1944
01:17:46.662 --> 01:17:48.794
[♪♪♪]

1945
01:17:48.794 --> 01:17:51.754
WOMAN:
We need someone
who can move like them.

1946
01:17:51.754 --> 01:17:55.583
MICHAEL:
I booked a movie on
the XXX: Return of Xander Cage

1947
01:17:55.583 --> 01:17:57.455
with Vin Diesel.

1948
01:17:57.455 --> 01:17:59.283
XANDER:
Damn that
feels good to be back.

1949
01:17:59.283 --> 01:18:00.458
MICHAEL:
Samuel L Jackson, Ice Cube.

1950
01:18:00.458 --> 01:18:02.286
Big movie.

1951
01:18:02.286 --> 01:18:04.941
And I was in Toronto for
almost three months

1952
01:18:04.941 --> 01:18:06.812
filming that.

1953
01:18:06.812 --> 01:18:10.598
SCOTT:
XXX, yeah, I'll
tell you about XXX.

1954
01:18:10.598 --> 01:18:12.992
A part had become available
to be a good guy with

1955
01:18:12.992 --> 01:18:15.821
Tony Jaa and Donnie Yen.

1956
01:18:15.821 --> 01:18:18.563
Now I've worked with Tony Jaa
and Donnie Yen now, but at the

1957
01:18:18.563 --> 01:18:19.912
time, I hadn't worked with
either of them, and I really

1958
01:18:19.912 --> 01:18:21.609
wanted to work with them.

1959
01:18:21.609 --> 01:18:23.524
And I wanted to work with
Vin Diesel as well of course.

1960
01:18:23.524 --> 01:18:25.918
And being a big film
like XXX, come on.

1961
01:18:25.918 --> 01:18:27.572
I did a great audition.

1962
01:18:27.572 --> 01:18:30.531
I thought it was great, and
thought "I stand a good

1963
01:18:30.531 --> 01:18:32.708
chance of getting this,"
and then eventually,

1964
01:18:32.708 --> 01:18:35.275
I get the phone call.

1965
01:18:35.275 --> 01:18:36.755
"Yeah, they've given it to
Michael Bisping."

1966
01:18:36.755 --> 01:18:38.801
Fucking bastard.

1967
01:18:38.801 --> 01:18:40.933
Michael Bisping, you fuck.

1968
01:18:40.933 --> 01:18:44.894
I mean, I'm a big fan of
you, Mike, but what the fuck?

1969
01:18:44.894 --> 01:18:45.677
Come on, mate.

1970
01:18:45.677 --> 01:18:46.939
You're taking my roles.

1971
01:18:46.939 --> 01:18:48.898
I was pissed off.

1972
01:18:48.898 --> 01:18:51.683
VIN:
You never know where
you're gonna find your talent.

1973
01:18:51.683 --> 01:18:55.687
You never know where you're
going to find your talent.

1974
01:18:55.687 --> 01:19:00.997
VIN:
So the irony is that
I first was introduced to

1975
01:19:00.997 --> 01:19:04.565
Michael Bisping as an actor.

1976
01:19:04.565 --> 01:19:12.008
And I critiqued him with, on
that merit alone, and I was

1977
01:19:12.008 --> 01:19:16.708
impressed with what he had
done in his audition tape.

1978
01:19:16.708 --> 01:19:20.625
And then discovered
about who he was.

1979
01:19:20.625 --> 01:19:22.192
[♪♪♪]

1980
01:19:27.110 --> 01:19:28.633
[♪♪♪]

1981
01:19:28.633 --> 01:19:30.026
WOMAN:
The injury
bug strikes again.

1982
01:19:30.026 --> 01:19:31.984
This time, it's Chris Weidman
who is out of the Middleweight

1983
01:19:31.984 --> 01:19:33.899
title fight against
Luke Rockhold, originally set

1984
01:19:33.899 --> 01:19:36.032
the headline UFC 199.

1985
01:19:36.032 --> 01:19:38.817
ARIEL:
Weidman ends up getting
hurt, and the UFC is left

1986
01:19:38.817 --> 01:19:42.168
without an opponent for
Luke Rockhold, and the card is

1987
01:19:42.168 --> 01:19:44.997
around like, 2 1/2 weeks away.

1988
01:19:44.997 --> 01:19:49.393
And I've never shared this
before, but it is the truth.

1989
01:19:49.393 --> 01:19:56.226
I found out that the fight
was off, and I told

1990
01:19:56.226 --> 01:19:59.229
Michael Bisping that he should
get very vocal, and he should

1991
01:19:59.229 --> 01:20:02.710
probably call the UFC and ask
for this fight before anyone

1992
01:20:02.710 --> 01:20:05.409
knew that the fight
was even available.

1993
01:20:05.409 --> 01:20:07.585
Because I knew how
much he wanted it.

1994
01:20:07.585 --> 01:20:08.629
If you really want a title
shot, this might be the way

1995
01:20:08.629 --> 01:20:09.935
you get it.

1996
01:20:09.935 --> 01:20:11.763
MICHAEL:
So I text Dana
right then and there.

1997
01:20:11.763 --> 01:20:14.157
And I think it was something
along the lines of

1998
01:20:14.157 --> 01:20:16.724
"If none of those pussies can
make it to the octagon,

1999
01:20:16.724 --> 01:20:18.378
you know where I am".

2000
01:20:18.378 --> 01:20:21.860
And he sent back a nice message.

2001
01:20:21.860 --> 01:20:24.732
You know, but he said Jacare,
another fighter, Jacare's

2002
01:20:24.732 --> 01:20:26.169
our first option.

2003
01:20:26.169 --> 01:20:28.998
If he doesn't want
it, you're next.

2004
01:20:28.998 --> 01:20:30.869
And I thought well, I'm not
getting the fight, because

2005
01:20:30.869 --> 01:20:33.176
there's no way Jacare's going
to turn down a title shot.

2006
01:20:33.176 --> 01:20:36.135
[♪♪♪]

2007
01:20:41.793 --> 01:20:43.055
MICHAEL:
Get out of
bed the next day.

2008
01:20:43.055 --> 01:20:45.666
My phone, bing bing bing bing,
starts lighting up like

2009
01:20:45.666 --> 01:20:46.929
a Christmas tree.

2010
01:20:46.929 --> 01:20:48.060
I'm like "What the hell?"

2011
01:20:48.060 --> 01:20:51.759
And I look, and all
these tweets, and then I get a

2012
01:20:51.759 --> 01:20:54.719
phone call from Ariel Helwani,
and I answer the phone.

2013
01:20:54.719 --> 01:20:55.676
He says, "Congrats".

2014
01:20:55.676 --> 01:20:58.549
I'm like,
"Congrats for what?"

2015
01:20:58.549 --> 01:20:59.289
MAN:
I've got some
breaking news here,

2016
01:20:59.289 --> 01:21:00.638
so let's get to it.

2017
01:21:00.638 --> 01:21:02.379
Dana, who is it?

2018
01:21:02.379 --> 01:21:05.382
Who's gonna fight Luke
Rockhold in UFC 199?

2019
01:21:05.382 --> 01:21:07.123
DANA:
The next guy in
line is Michael Bisping.

2020
01:21:08.298 --> 01:21:08.820
MICHAEL:
[laughing]

2021
01:21:08.820 --> 01:21:10.343
Really?

2022
01:21:10.343 --> 01:21:10.909
I mean, number 1,
it was great news.

2023
01:21:10.909 --> 01:21:12.824
He hadn't told me.

2024
01:21:12.824 --> 01:21:13.825
This is the first I'm finding
out, and if I had of known,

2025
01:21:13.825 --> 01:21:16.001
I wouldn't have had a couple of
beers the night before,

2026
01:21:16.001 --> 01:21:17.829
so I was like, "Shit".

2027
01:21:17.829 --> 01:21:18.264
I check my weight.

2028
01:21:18.264 --> 01:21:19.091
I get on the scale.

2029
01:21:19.091 --> 01:21:20.832
It was like 215 pounds.

2030
01:21:20.832 --> 01:21:24.357
I've got 2 weeks to weight
185 pounds, so 30 pounds.

2031
01:21:24.357 --> 01:21:25.750
I'm like, "Shit".

2032
01:21:25.750 --> 01:21:26.969
So, alright.

2033
01:21:26.969 --> 01:21:28.709
I'm panicking, my head's
spinning, I've gotta run.

2034
01:21:28.709 --> 01:21:30.102
I've gotta run.

2035
01:21:30.102 --> 01:21:31.625
So I run out in the city.

2036
01:21:31.625 --> 01:21:33.062
I throw my backpack over
my shoulders, and I'm just

2037
01:21:33.062 --> 01:21:38.589
running through the city, and
then Dana calls, and I'm

2038
01:21:38.589 --> 01:21:41.374
on the phone to Dana
while still running.

2039
01:21:41.374 --> 01:21:41.984
DANA:
Bisping would
never say, "No".

2040
01:21:41.984 --> 01:21:43.942
Bisping is a fighter.

2041
01:21:43.942 --> 01:21:47.163
He's, he's... This is what
he was born to do, 'cause

2042
01:21:47.163 --> 01:21:50.253
there's a lot of guys that
try to pull some real stupid

2043
01:21:50.253 --> 01:21:53.038
bullshit when you call and
try to get them to fight last

2044
01:21:53.038 --> 01:21:55.606
minute, and they're actually
real dirty about it.

2045
01:21:55.606 --> 01:21:57.825
Bisping was never
dirty about it.

2046
01:21:57.825 --> 01:22:00.959
Bisping was always smooth in
the way he handled himself.

2047
01:22:00.959 --> 01:22:02.047
MICHAEL:
And as I'm running,
I start thinking,

2048
01:22:02.047 --> 01:22:03.309
"I don't believe this.

2049
01:22:03.309 --> 01:22:06.225
This is so typical of my career.

2050
01:22:06.225 --> 01:22:11.752
I've wanted a title fight my
entire life, and here I am,

2051
01:22:11.752 --> 01:22:16.453
and in true Michael Bisping
fashion, I get it on 2-weeks

2052
01:22:16.453 --> 01:22:19.195
notice against a guy
that already beat me.

2053
01:22:19.195 --> 01:22:21.980
I haven't been near a gym".

2054
01:22:21.980 --> 01:22:24.026
You know, "I had a couple
of drinks last night, and I've

2055
01:22:24.026 --> 01:22:27.681
got- And I've still got to
finish filming 'xXx'

2056
01:22:27.681 --> 01:22:30.206
before I go home, and then
focus on the fight'".

2057
01:22:30.206 --> 01:22:36.081
VIN:
It was preposterous, for
him, to take a fight in

2058
01:22:36.081 --> 01:22:43.349
11 days, with a formidable
fighter, like Luke Rockhold.

2059
01:22:43.349 --> 01:22:47.440
It was a preposterous thought.

2060
01:22:47.440 --> 01:22:50.052
ARIEL:
And I think Rockhold
kind of hand-picked Bisping

2061
01:22:50.052 --> 01:22:52.315
because he bet him so easily
the first time and felt like,

2062
01:22:52.315 --> 01:22:53.925
"K. 2 1/2 week notice.

2063
01:22:53.925 --> 01:22:55.231
The guy's out there
filming a movie.

2064
01:22:55.231 --> 01:22:56.928
I'm just gonna smoke him again.

2065
01:22:56.928 --> 01:22:58.103
This is great.

2066
01:22:58.103 --> 01:22:59.887
This is a perfect
title defence for me.

2067
01:22:59.887 --> 01:23:01.541
MICHAEL:
I call my
coach, Jason Perillo.

2068
01:23:01.541 --> 01:23:03.891
I'm telling him how I feel.

2069
01:23:03.891 --> 01:23:04.501
He said, "Michael.

2070
01:23:04.501 --> 01:23:05.937
What are you talking about?"

2071
01:23:05.937 --> 01:23:07.330
He said, "You've been training
your entire life

2072
01:23:07.330 --> 01:23:09.462
for this moment".

2073
01:23:09.462 --> 01:23:11.290
He said, "You just beat
the greatest of all time

2074
01:23:11.290 --> 01:23:13.553
in Anderson Silva just a
few months ago".

2075
01:23:13.553 --> 01:23:15.164
He said, "You fight
all the time".

2076
01:23:15.164 --> 01:23:17.514
He said, "The training is done".

2077
01:23:17.514 --> 01:23:19.081
He said, "You're in shape.

2078
01:23:19.081 --> 01:23:20.647
You look after yourself".

2079
01:23:20.647 --> 01:23:22.040
He said, "We can get you
ready in a couple of weeks,

2080
01:23:22.040 --> 01:23:24.738
but stop having these
negative thoughts".

2081
01:23:24.738 --> 01:23:26.392
He said, "We're gonna
win this fucking fight".

2082
01:23:26.392 --> 01:23:28.873
I thought, "You know, I'm
actually in pretty good shape,

2083
01:23:28.873 --> 01:23:31.963
so yeah.

2084
01:23:31.963 --> 01:23:33.399
Let's do this.

2085
01:23:33.399 --> 01:23:34.922
Let's go win a fucking
world title".

2086
01:23:34.922 --> 01:23:36.446
[♪♪♪]

2087
01:23:50.547 --> 01:23:53.898
LUKE:
There's 2 weeks left to
train, and I wanted to go make

2088
01:23:53.898 --> 01:23:56.944
a big statement, you know,
and it was a big fight

2089
01:23:56.944 --> 01:23:58.076
at the time.

2090
01:23:58.076 --> 01:23:59.686
It is what it is.

2091
01:23:59.686 --> 01:24:01.036
We're gonna get after it,
and we're gonna fight.

2092
01:24:01.036 --> 01:24:08.347
[♪♪♪]

2093
01:24:27.018 --> 01:24:29.890
ARIEL:
It seemed like Rockhold
was loving life as champion.

2094
01:24:29.890 --> 01:24:31.631
I remember him renting
out this mansion.

2095
01:24:31.631 --> 01:24:33.242
It was in California.

2096
01:24:33.242 --> 01:24:36.158
It just seemed like he was
very confident going in to

2097
01:24:36.158 --> 01:24:37.855
that fight, and he had every
right to be confident, because

2098
01:24:37.855 --> 01:24:39.987
he had beaten him not that
long ago in very

2099
01:24:39.987 --> 01:24:41.598
dominant fashion.

2100
01:24:41.598 --> 01:24:43.295
LUKE:
I knocked him out and
choked him out last time, and-.

2101
01:24:43.295 --> 01:24:45.210
WOMAN:
Jeez.

2102
01:24:45.210 --> 01:24:46.211
LUKE:
It's gonna be hard to top that,
but I'll do what I can.

2103
01:24:46.211 --> 01:24:46.516
MAN:
[laughing]

2104
01:24:46.516 --> 01:24:48.170
What's left [indistinct]

2105
01:24:48.170 --> 01:24:49.388
LUKE:
I'm gonna knock
his eye back straight.

2106
01:24:49.388 --> 01:24:50.085
MAN:
That's [indistinct]

2107
01:24:50.085 --> 01:24:51.477
MAN:
Oh my God.

2108
01:24:51.477 --> 01:24:52.957
LUKE:
I tried to just
completely disrespect him and

2109
01:24:52.957 --> 01:24:55.090
find a way to market this
fight, so I was doing

2110
01:24:55.090 --> 01:24:59.964
everything I can, and
obviously being through or

2111
01:24:59.964 --> 01:25:03.054
going through what I was
going through, I just.

2112
01:25:03.054 --> 01:25:04.273
I did what I could.

2113
01:25:04.273 --> 01:25:05.143
LUKE:
Oh.

2114
01:25:05.143 --> 01:25:06.013
You like that, little bitch?

2115
01:25:06.013 --> 01:25:06.797
MAN:
Boom.

2116
01:25:06.797 --> 01:25:07.972
LUKE:
How about that one?

2117
01:25:07.972 --> 01:25:11.584
How about that one?

2118
01:25:11.584 --> 01:25:14.935
MICHAEL [on TV]:
After that fight,
dusted myself off.

2119
01:25:14.935 --> 01:25:16.154
I've tried-.

2120
01:25:16.154 --> 01:25:16.720
LUKE: [imitating Michael]
I dusted myself off

2121
01:25:16.720 --> 01:25:17.982
and I came back and I fought.

2122
01:25:17.982 --> 01:25:19.940
[laughing]

2123
01:25:19.940 --> 01:25:22.552
You ain't gonna dust yourself
off, off, after this one.

2124
01:25:22.552 --> 01:25:25.032
LUKE:
You trying to promote a
fight, and you know, I got,

2125
01:25:25.032 --> 01:25:28.079
I got caught up in the promotion
of it, and almost, you know,

2126
01:25:28.079 --> 01:25:31.865
really believed what I was
saying, and kind of forced it

2127
01:25:31.865 --> 01:25:35.042
into my mind that I needed
to do all these things.

2128
01:25:35.042 --> 01:25:35.869
LUKE:
If you believe
in something.

2129
01:25:35.869 --> 01:25:37.306
If you know something's
gonna happen.

2130
01:25:37.306 --> 01:25:39.351
If you confident in that
situation, you will achieve

2131
01:25:39.351 --> 01:25:40.700
things in life.

2132
01:25:40.700 --> 01:25:42.963
Believe it and you achieve it.

2133
01:25:42.963 --> 01:25:44.443
I know that I'm
better than this-.

2134
01:25:44.443 --> 01:25:45.140
MICHAEL:
Sounds like no
self-help book you've

2135
01:25:45.140 --> 01:25:46.489
ever read.

2136
01:25:46.489 --> 01:25:48.186
Concieve, believe, achieve.

2137
01:25:48.186 --> 01:25:49.448
Shut the fuck up.

2138
01:25:49.448 --> 01:25:50.362
DANA:
[laughing]

2139
01:25:50.362 --> 01:25:51.189
MICHAEL:
Listen.

2140
01:25:51.189 --> 01:25:51.972
It is my destiny.

2141
01:25:51.972 --> 01:25:52.973
I "believe", Luke.

2142
01:25:52.973 --> 01:25:54.018
I "believe".

2143
01:25:54.018 --> 01:26:01.330
[♪♪♪]

2144
01:26:08.380 --> 01:26:09.512
[leather striking]

2145
01:26:09.512 --> 01:26:11.470
[♪♪♪]

2146
01:26:21.263 --> 01:26:21.393
MICHAEL:
Day of the fight.

2147
01:26:21.393 --> 01:26:22.829
Felt fantastic.

2148
01:26:22.829 --> 01:26:23.874
You know, I was backstage.

2149
01:26:23.874 --> 01:26:26.181
I was, just felt
great, you know.

2150
01:26:26.181 --> 01:26:28.008
There's good days and bad
days, and everything

2151
01:26:28.008 --> 01:26:28.444
was just clicking.

2152
01:26:28.444 --> 01:26:30.097
I felt awesome.

2153
01:26:30.097 --> 01:26:31.273
Yeah, there was no one out
there saying I was

2154
01:26:31.273 --> 01:26:31.882
going to win.

2155
01:26:31.882 --> 01:26:33.057
That's for sure.

2156
01:26:33.057 --> 01:26:34.058
You know, and fuck 'em.

2157
01:26:34.058 --> 01:26:34.798
They don't know me.

2158
01:26:34.798 --> 01:26:36.016
They don't know my journey.

2159
01:26:36.016 --> 01:26:37.931
They don't know
what I'm capable of.

2160
01:26:37.931 --> 01:26:39.281
ARIEL:
It felt like he
knew something that we all

2161
01:26:39.281 --> 01:26:40.282
couldn't see.

2162
01:26:40.282 --> 01:26:43.502
He was so confident.

2163
01:26:43.502 --> 01:26:47.245
LUKE:
Got to The Forum,
and, I was overly relaxed.

2164
01:26:47.245 --> 01:26:50.292
I was so focused on going
out there and just having

2165
01:26:50.292 --> 01:26:52.685
absolutely no respect for
Bisping and forcing a fight,

2166
01:26:52.685 --> 01:26:56.298
like I said, that I
don't need to force.

2167
01:26:56.298 --> 01:26:57.647
BRUCE:
A fighter's about to go
out and put his blood, sweat,

2168
01:26:57.647 --> 01:26:59.257
and tears on the line.

2169
01:26:59.257 --> 01:27:01.825
There's certain fighters
that react in different ways.

2170
01:27:01.825 --> 01:27:03.870
I would be very surprised
if anybody including

2171
01:27:03.870 --> 01:27:06.308
Michael Bisping is not nervous,
a little nervous in the

2172
01:27:06.308 --> 01:27:08.701
service to whatever level
before they walk out.

2173
01:27:08.701 --> 01:27:11.661
LUKE:
Fighting is, it's one of
the biggest rushes and thrills

2174
01:27:11.661 --> 01:27:14.272
you can ever encounter.

2175
01:27:14.272 --> 01:27:17.797
It's as scary as it gets, and
it's as rewarding as it gets.

2176
01:27:17.797 --> 01:27:20.104
It's exciting as it gets.

2177
01:27:20.104 --> 01:27:21.888
You'll never feel
anything like it.

2178
01:27:21.888 --> 01:27:24.326
BRUCE:
I mean, you're
about to go to war.

2179
01:27:24.326 --> 01:27:27.459
[♪♪♪]

2180
01:27:34.205 --> 01:27:35.685
MICHAEL:
He comes in.

2181
01:27:35.685 --> 01:27:36.903
He's being all goofy, and he's
just trying to act too cool,

2182
01:27:36.903 --> 01:27:39.036
you know, and I'm like,
"Fuck this guy".

2183
01:27:39.036 --> 01:27:41.386
[♪♪♪]

2184
01:27:41.386 --> 01:27:46.826
BRUCE:
It's time...

2185
01:27:46.826 --> 01:27:48.393
ELLIE:
For me, growing up

2186
01:27:48.393 --> 01:27:51.483
with my dad being a
fighter, um, obviously it was

2187
01:27:51.483 --> 01:27:56.314
scary watching him fight,
but, um, it was just kinda
normal,

2188
01:27:56.314 --> 01:27:59.230
because it's all I've seen him
do since he started when

2189
01:27:59.230 --> 01:28:01.232
I was so young, so.

2190
01:28:01.232 --> 01:28:04.279
Yeah, it was just,
became normal to me.

2191
01:28:04.279 --> 01:28:05.367
CALLUM:
I was really nervous
for that fight, 'cause

2192
01:28:05.367 --> 01:28:06.977
obviously, you know, 2-weeks
notice, he already lost

2193
01:28:06.977 --> 01:28:08.413
to Rockhold, so.

2194
01:28:08.413 --> 01:28:11.982
BRUCE:
Introducing first,
the challenger-.

2195
01:28:11.982 --> 01:28:13.288
MICHAEL:
During the
introduction to the fight-.

2196
01:28:13.288 --> 01:28:14.506
BRUCE:
"The Count".

2197
01:28:14.506 --> 01:28:16.595
MICHAEL:
I have never felt
so confident in my life.

2198
01:28:16.595 --> 01:28:18.641
BRUCE:
Bisping...

2199
01:28:18.641 --> 01:28:20.382
MICHAEL:
The game plan was to look for

2200
01:28:20.382 --> 01:28:21.731
the left hook.

2201
01:28:21.731 --> 01:28:23.210
You know, plain and simple.

2202
01:28:23.210 --> 01:28:25.604
Perillo had noticed in a
number of his videos,

2203
01:28:25.604 --> 01:28:27.563
number one, he'll tall.

2204
01:28:27.563 --> 01:28:31.088
Tall people generally tent to
carry their chins quite high,

2205
01:28:31.088 --> 01:28:33.438
and he had this right hand
low, 'cause he's a cocky son

2206
01:28:33.438 --> 01:28:35.353
of a bitch, and then when your
chin's high and your hands are

2207
01:28:35.353 --> 01:28:38.574
low, boom, that left
hand is there all day.

2208
01:28:38.574 --> 01:28:40.184
MICHAEL:
Referee says,
"You can touch gloves now

2209
01:28:40.184 --> 01:28:41.054
if you want".

2210
01:28:41.054 --> 01:28:41.359
I said, "Hey.

2211
01:28:41.359 --> 01:28:42.186
Come on".

2212
01:28:42.186 --> 01:28:42.621
He says, "No touch".

2213
01:28:42.621 --> 01:28:43.405
I said, "What's that?"

2214
01:28:43.405 --> 01:28:43.666
He says, "No touch".

2215
01:28:43.666 --> 01:28:44.493
I said, "Oh.

2216
01:28:44.493 --> 01:28:45.450
No touch, buddy".

2217
01:28:45.450 --> 01:28:46.364
MICHAEL:
Yeah, buddy?

2218
01:28:46.364 --> 01:28:47.234
JOHN:
I want you
to fight clean.

2219
01:28:47.234 --> 01:28:47.713
MICHAEL:
No touch?

2220
01:28:47.713 --> 01:28:48.410
JOHN:
Fight hard.

2221
01:28:48.410 --> 01:28:48.540
You want to touch now?

2222
01:28:48.540 --> 01:28:49.454
Go ahead.

2223
01:28:49.454 --> 01:28:49.628
MICHAEL:
No touch?

2224
01:28:49.628 --> 01:28:50.716
Fuckin' touch?

2225
01:28:50.716 --> 01:28:51.326
JOHN:
Good luck to both of ya.

2226
01:28:51.326 --> 01:28:52.370
MICHAEL:
No touch?

2227
01:28:52.370 --> 01:28:53.415
I'll touch you in a
second, mother fucker.

2228
01:28:53.415 --> 01:28:54.633
JOHN:
You ready?

2229
01:28:54.633 --> 01:28:55.460
Are you ready?

2230
01:28:55.460 --> 01:28:56.896
Let's get it on.

2231
01:28:56.896 --> 01:28:58.724
JOE:
Good straight
left by Bisping.

2232
01:28:58.724 --> 01:29:00.509
MICHAEL:
Voom, voom, vo-.

2233
01:29:00.509 --> 01:29:02.554
Trying to knock the mother
fucker out, and I'm swinging.

2234
01:29:02.554 --> 01:29:05.122
JASON:
Try to sneak that
in there a little bit more.

2235
01:29:05.122 --> 01:29:07.733
JOE:
Rockhold has his chin
straight up in the air.

2236
01:29:07.733 --> 01:29:10.214
LUKE:
I just start running
forward and just trying to

2237
01:29:10.214 --> 01:29:12.869
bang, trying, trying
to land shots.

2238
01:29:12.869 --> 01:29:14.610
PAUL:
The more Rockhold throws
those kicks, especially to the

2239
01:29:14.610 --> 01:29:17.917
legs, the less movement we're
gonna see from Bisping,

2240
01:29:17.917 --> 01:29:19.441
and that's his trademark.

2241
01:29:19.441 --> 01:29:20.790
JOE:
He just dug
one into the body.

2242
01:29:20.790 --> 01:29:22.052
Michael might be hurt.

2243
01:29:22.052 --> 01:29:22.748
MICHAEL:
Never really felt it.

2244
01:29:22.748 --> 01:29:24.097
Commentator said,

2245
01:29:24.097 --> 01:29:25.360
"Oh. That one might've
hurt Bisping".

2246
01:29:25.360 --> 01:29:27.318
Not really.

2247
01:29:27.318 --> 01:29:28.667
I'm here.

2248
01:29:28.667 --> 01:29:30.234
And I'm looking
for that left hook.

2249
01:29:30.234 --> 01:29:33.411
I'm swinging a couple of
times and they just missed.

2250
01:29:33.411 --> 01:29:36.632
PAUL:
Rockhold has this air of
invincibility mentally

2251
01:29:36.632 --> 01:29:38.764
right now as well.

2252
01:29:38.764 --> 01:29:40.462
Never more confident.

2253
01:29:40.462 --> 01:29:42.333
MICHAEL:
And Jason was
like, "The left hook.

2254
01:29:42.333 --> 01:29:43.595
The left hook, Michael.

2255
01:29:43.595 --> 01:29:45.205
That's what gonna land.

2256
01:29:45.205 --> 01:29:46.511
That's what's gonna get it
done in this fight".

2257
01:29:46.511 --> 01:29:49.514
[♪♪♪]

2258
01:29:49.514 --> 01:29:50.167
JOE:
Oh.

2259
01:29:50.167 --> 01:29:50.602
He hurt him.

2260
01:29:50.602 --> 01:29:51.168
PAUL:
Oh.

2261
01:29:51.168 --> 01:29:51.995
He got rocked...

2262
01:29:51.995 --> 01:29:52.604
MICHAEL:
That hook to the body.

2263
01:29:52.604 --> 01:29:56.608
Left hook over the top.

2264
01:29:56.608 --> 01:29:57.783
"Holy shit".

2265
01:29:57.783 --> 01:29:59.306
He just [whistling]

2266
01:29:59.306 --> 01:30:00.525
He hits the ground,
and I'm like, "Wow.

2267
01:30:00.525 --> 01:30:02.440
Shit.

2268
01:30:02.440 --> 01:30:03.180
I don't believe it.

2269
01:30:03.180 --> 01:30:04.790
He's down".

2270
01:30:04.790 --> 01:30:06.444
And he gets back up, and I'm
like, "No, you don't, buddy".

2271
01:30:06.444 --> 01:30:07.532
Bang.

2272
01:30:07.532 --> 01:30:09.447
[crowd cheering]

2273
01:30:09.447 --> 01:30:10.143
MICHAEL:
Bang.

2274
01:30:10.143 --> 01:30:10.535
Bang.

2275
01:30:10.535 --> 01:30:11.710
Bang.

2276
01:30:11.710 --> 01:30:13.190
Hard fucking shots.

2277
01:30:13.190 --> 01:30:18.543
[applause]

2278
01:30:18.543 --> 01:30:20.371
MICHAEL:
Jason Perillo sat
there in the corner and just,

2279
01:30:20.371 --> 01:30:21.416
did that.

2280
01:30:21.416 --> 01:30:22.373
It was so fucking cool.

2281
01:30:22.373 --> 01:30:25.811
[applause]

2282
01:30:25.811 --> 01:30:28.553
PAUL:
Michael Bisping is the
new UFC Middleweight Champion

2283
01:30:28.553 --> 01:30:30.816
of the World...

2284
01:30:30.816 --> 01:30:33.732
JOE:
Oh my goodness.

2285
01:30:33.732 --> 01:30:35.647
MICHAEL:
The fight is over
and I'm the new middleweight

2286
01:30:35.647 --> 01:30:36.953
champion of the world.

2287
01:30:36.953 --> 01:30:38.215
I jump on top of the cage.

2288
01:30:38.215 --> 01:30:40.173
I'm celebrating.

2289
01:30:40.173 --> 01:30:44.003
REBECCA:
It was the world
recognizing his achievements

2290
01:30:44.003 --> 01:30:46.136
and all the sacrifices
that he'd made.

2291
01:30:46.136 --> 01:30:49.182
All the injuries that he'd had.

2292
01:30:49.182 --> 01:30:51.054
MICHAEL:
My wife
come running in.

2293
01:30:51.054 --> 01:30:52.925
The children, Callum
and Ellie, my manager.

2294
01:30:52.925 --> 01:30:56.451
JOE:
Oh my goodness.

2295
01:30:56.451 --> 01:30:59.236
[♪♪♪]

2296
01:30:59.236 --> 01:31:00.542
JOE:
That's why this is
a crazy sport,

2297
01:31:00.542 --> 01:31:02.326
ladies and gentlemen.

2298
01:31:02.326 --> 01:31:03.588
DAZ:
Michael Bisping knocked
out Luke Rockhold blind

2299
01:31:03.588 --> 01:31:05.329
in one eye.

2300
01:31:05.329 --> 01:31:06.330
He was blind in one eye.

2301
01:31:06.330 --> 01:31:07.679
There's no ifs, no buts.

2302
01:31:07.679 --> 01:31:08.463
There's nothing about it.

2303
01:31:08.463 --> 01:31:09.942
He goes blind in one eye.

2304
01:31:09.942 --> 01:31:11.901
GEORGE:
Michael has always
been an underdog all his life,

2305
01:31:11.901 --> 01:31:13.598
and he proved everybody wrong.

2306
01:31:13.598 --> 01:31:16.949
I wanted to be like him, and
be able to inspire people

2307
01:31:16.949 --> 01:31:19.778
like Michael Bisping did.

2308
01:31:19.778 --> 01:31:21.388
JAN:
And I actually had
tears pouring down my face.

2309
01:31:21.388 --> 01:31:24.043
I was so happy.

2310
01:31:24.043 --> 01:31:25.871
The emotion was incredible.

2311
01:31:25.871 --> 01:31:30.006
VIN:
I'm smiling because
this anecdote, that is his

2312
01:31:30.006 --> 01:31:35.968
life-changing anecdote,
includes a phone call

2313
01:31:35.968 --> 01:31:38.797
to me on that day.

2314
01:31:38.797 --> 01:31:41.800
In some small way I can feel
like I was a part of that

2315
01:31:41.800 --> 01:31:44.629
moment in history.

2316
01:31:44.629 --> 01:31:49.939
RASHAD:
I kind of still get emotional
just thinking about it,

2317
01:31:49.939 --> 01:31:55.901
just because he went out
there and he became champion,
man.

2318
01:31:55.901 --> 01:32:01.341
BRUCE:
The new undisputed UFC
Middleweight Champion

2319
01:32:01.341 --> 01:32:03.605
of the World.

2320
01:32:03.605 --> 01:32:10.829
RASHAD:
The way he did it
and, he made me proud, man.

2321
01:32:10.829 --> 01:32:15.921
He made me proud that we had
that fight that day, man.

2322
01:32:17.532 --> 01:32:18.837
Yeah.

2323
01:32:18.837 --> 01:32:21.100
[♪♪♪]

2324
01:32:41.686 --> 01:32:43.514
JOE:
This is a very peculiar
style of fighting 'cause...

2325
01:32:43.514 --> 01:32:44.471
Oh, he head kicked him.

2326
01:32:44.471 --> 01:32:45.777
Oh, he hurt him...

2327
01:32:45.777 --> 01:32:47.953
PAUL:
It is all over!

2328
01:32:47.953 --> 01:32:52.001
Dan Henderson with a knockout...

2329
01:32:52.001 --> 01:32:52.784
MICHAEL:
So I fought Luke Rockhold,

2330
01:32:52.784 --> 01:32:54.743
UFC 199 on Saturday.

2331
01:32:54.743 --> 01:32:58.268
On the Monday morning, I was
still hungover from Saturday

2332
01:32:58.268 --> 01:33:00.618
night, and I get a phone call
from the UFC, it was

2333
01:33:00.618 --> 01:33:02.402
Dana White.

2334
01:33:02.402 --> 01:33:05.362
And they offered me a rematch
against Dan Henderson.

2335
01:33:05.362 --> 01:33:07.582
Obviously he knocked
me out at UFC 100.

2336
01:33:07.582 --> 01:33:09.975
He'd fought on the same card
where I'd beat Luke Rockhold.

2337
01:33:09.975 --> 01:33:11.586
Had a great knockout.

2338
01:33:11.586 --> 01:33:14.240
So they said "Let's do
a rematch, you versus

2339
01:33:14.240 --> 01:33:16.678
Dan Henderson in Manchester".

2340
01:33:16.678 --> 01:33:19.419
MICHAEL:
Dana called me two
days after the fight,

2341
01:33:19.419 --> 01:33:20.725
said "We want to do
Dan Henderson".

2342
01:33:20.725 --> 01:33:22.553
I said "Yeah, sure, line him up.

2343
01:33:22.553 --> 01:33:24.729
Fred Flintstone's gonna
get knocked out".

2344
01:33:24.729 --> 01:33:28.167
DAN:
This fight came about
mostly because of the fans.

2345
01:33:28.167 --> 01:33:30.300
Because of what I did to him.

2346
01:33:30.300 --> 01:33:32.781
It felt damn good knocking
out Michael Bisping.

2347
01:33:32.781 --> 01:33:34.957
MICHAEL:
Of course as a
fighter, you know, you've

2348
01:33:34.957 --> 01:33:36.219
got to ooze bravado.

2349
01:33:36.219 --> 01:33:37.742
You've got to sell the fight.

2350
01:33:37.742 --> 01:33:39.701
You've got to be confident,
say you're gonna win.

2351
01:33:39.701 --> 01:33:41.833
But you can't lie to yourself.

2352
01:33:41.833 --> 01:33:43.792
And I knew the last time I
stepped into an octagon with

2353
01:33:43.792 --> 01:33:46.490
that man, he knocked me out,
and the whole world

2354
01:33:46.490 --> 01:33:48.100
laughed at me.

2355
01:33:48.100 --> 01:33:49.841
The self-doubt
starts to creep in.

2356
01:33:49.841 --> 01:33:52.496
You know, and as I say, you
can lie to all the journalists

2357
01:33:52.496 --> 01:33:55.151
and the press and your
opponent and everybody.

2358
01:33:55.151 --> 01:33:56.979
Oh yeah, and you're like, oh
yeah, don't worry, I got this,

2359
01:33:56.979 --> 01:33:57.849
I got this.

2360
01:33:57.849 --> 01:33:58.850
You can lie to all them.

2361
01:33:58.850 --> 01:34:00.896
But you can't lie to yourself.

2362
01:34:00.896 --> 01:34:03.420
But you've got to put all of
that to the back of your mind

2363
01:34:03.420 --> 01:34:06.553
and walk out there, step
in an octagon, and fight.

2364
01:34:06.553 --> 01:34:08.077
[♪♪♪]

2365
01:34:12.472 --> 01:34:15.650
MIKE:
Bisping and Henderson
will finally do battle.

2366
01:34:15.650 --> 01:34:17.521
JOE:
And this right
here is revenge.

2367
01:34:17.521 --> 01:34:20.959
[♪♪♪]

2368
01:34:23.832 --> 01:34:24.789
MICHAEL:
Went out there.

2369
01:34:24.789 --> 01:34:26.008
It was a tough fight.

2370
01:34:26.008 --> 01:34:28.358
He caught me with a big right
hand in the first round.

2371
01:34:28.358 --> 01:34:29.881
Boom.

2372
01:34:29.881 --> 01:34:33.493
Actually broke my orbital bone
on this side, and I gave him

2373
01:34:33.493 --> 01:34:35.191
a little smile.

2374
01:34:35.191 --> 01:34:36.888
I was dominating the fight, I
was winning the fight, I was

2375
01:34:36.888 --> 01:34:39.630
outboxing him, outstriking
him, putting together

2376
01:34:39.630 --> 01:34:43.852
fluid combinations.

2377
01:34:43.852 --> 01:34:45.462
Redemption for all those
people that mocked me

2378
01:34:45.462 --> 01:34:47.986
on the internet.

2379
01:34:47.986 --> 01:34:49.727
[♪♪♪]

2380
01:34:49.727 --> 01:34:55.994
BRUCE:
And still, the
undisputed UFC middleweight

2381
01:34:57.169 --> 01:35:00.738
champion of the world.

2382
01:35:00.738 --> 01:35:02.522
MICHAEL:
Only ever British
champion to defend the belt

2383
01:35:02.522 --> 01:35:04.350
in Manchester.

2384
01:35:04.350 --> 01:35:06.701
It was a dream come true,
and it's an experience

2385
01:35:06.701 --> 01:35:08.311
I will never ever forget.

2386
01:35:08.311 --> 01:35:09.616
I'll take it to
the grave with me.

2387
01:35:09.616 --> 01:35:11.140
[♪♪♪]

2388
01:35:16.885 --> 01:35:20.715
GEORGES:
When I stopped 2014,
I knew it was very big

2389
01:35:20.715 --> 01:35:22.934
possibility that I
will, I would come back.

2390
01:35:22.934 --> 01:35:24.109
MIKE:
GSP is back.

2391
01:35:24.109 --> 01:35:25.458
He is returning to the octagon.

2392
01:35:25.458 --> 01:35:28.461
UFC 217 at
Madison Square Garden.

2393
01:35:28.461 --> 01:35:31.726
GEORGES:
My trainer
always told me, he said,

2394
01:35:31.726 --> 01:35:32.814
"Georges.

2395
01:35:32.814 --> 01:35:34.119
You're too much of a nice guy.

2396
01:35:34.119 --> 01:35:35.642
There's no drama
involved, you know?

2397
01:35:35.642 --> 01:35:37.775
You're too much like,
like a robot,

2398
01:35:37.775 --> 01:35:39.646
and need more drama".

2399
01:35:39.646 --> 01:35:41.910
Now, I'm attempting to do
something new and fight

2400
01:35:41.910 --> 01:35:43.650
Michael Bisping.

2401
01:35:43.650 --> 01:35:46.784
He's the winnest fighter in
UFC at the time, great

2402
01:35:46.784 --> 01:35:48.655
career as a champion.

2403
01:35:48.655 --> 01:35:52.921
That's the reason why I
came back and fight

2404
01:35:52.921 --> 01:35:54.749
Michael Bisping.

2405
01:35:54.749 --> 01:35:56.576
MICHAEL:
Georges.

2406
01:35:56.576 --> 01:35:57.926
You think you're gonna come
back, step up a weight class

2407
01:35:57.926 --> 01:35:59.275
and take my belt?

2408
01:35:59.275 --> 01:36:01.016
You're out of your
God damn mind.

2409
01:36:01.016 --> 01:36:05.281
[♪♪♪]

2410
01:36:05.281 --> 01:36:07.674
GEORGES:
One moment during the
promotional tour, we're on a

2411
01:36:07.674 --> 01:36:10.068
set doing an interview, and
we're going back and forth,

2412
01:36:10.068 --> 01:36:12.549
and he's insulting me.

2413
01:36:12.549 --> 01:36:13.942
That's one of the things that
you can say about

2414
01:36:13.942 --> 01:36:15.639
Michael Bisping.

2415
01:36:15.639 --> 01:36:16.640
He knows the fight game.

2416
01:36:16.640 --> 01:36:18.076
He knows how to
create those moments.

2417
01:36:18.076 --> 01:36:19.774
GEORGES:
You still have
your sunglasses on, Michael?

2418
01:36:19.774 --> 01:36:20.731
MICHAEL:
No.

2419
01:36:20.731 --> 01:36:21.863
I took 'em off
for you, dickhead.

2420
01:36:21.863 --> 01:36:22.689
I'm on the next dog park.

2421
01:36:22.689 --> 01:36:24.735
Come and see me.

2422
01:36:24.735 --> 01:36:25.823
MICHAEL:
See, if anyone spends
fucking 5 minutes talking to

2423
01:36:25.823 --> 01:36:28.217
Georges St-Pierre, you
wanna fucking kill yourself.

2424
01:36:28.217 --> 01:36:28.783
GEORGES:
Fuck this.

2425
01:36:28.783 --> 01:36:29.566
Fuck that.

2426
01:36:29.566 --> 01:36:30.175
Damn you.

2427
01:36:30.175 --> 01:36:32.787
Ah, fuck, pussy, wah, way.

2428
01:36:32.787 --> 01:36:34.876
That's all you got to say?

2429
01:36:34.876 --> 01:36:38.749
GEORGES:
Create those emotion
moment to drive the promotion,

2430
01:36:38.749 --> 01:36:40.969
to sell the fight.

2431
01:36:40.969 --> 01:36:42.535
[laughing]

2432
01:36:42.535 --> 01:36:44.407
MICHAEL:
These are
the Irish Bispings.

2433
01:36:44.407 --> 01:36:44.973
MICHAEL:
Quick, quick,
quick, quick, quick.

2434
01:36:44.973 --> 01:36:45.887
WOMAN:
See?

2435
01:36:45.887 --> 01:36:46.148
I knew that was gonna happen.

2436
01:36:46.148 --> 01:36:46.931
MICHAEL:
Quick.

2437
01:36:46.931 --> 01:36:47.453
MAN:
Yes.

2438
01:36:47.453 --> 01:36:47.802
WOMAN:
Real quick.

2439
01:36:47.802 --> 01:36:48.585
Alright.

2440
01:36:48.585 --> 01:36:49.151
I gotta go.

2441
01:36:49.151 --> 01:36:49.804
MICHAEL:
What do we say?

2442
01:36:49.804 --> 01:36:50.674
Who wins?

2443
01:36:50.674 --> 01:36:51.936
Me or GSP?

2444
01:36:51.936 --> 01:36:52.589
MAN:
You, easy.

2445
01:36:52.589 --> 01:36:53.111
MICHAEL:
Come on.

2446
01:36:53.111 --> 01:36:54.330
MAN:
You easy...

2447
01:36:54.330 --> 01:36:55.418
MAN 2:
Come on, champ.

2448
01:36:55.418 --> 01:36:57.115
Are you, you're
just saying that.

2449
01:36:57.115 --> 01:36:58.073
MAN 2:
Don't let him wrestle you.

2450
01:36:58.073 --> 01:36:58.856
MICHAEL:
Thanks for the advice.

2451
01:36:58.856 --> 01:37:00.466
I didn't think of that one.

2452
01:37:00.466 --> 01:37:01.946
[laughing]

2453
01:37:01.946 --> 01:37:02.991
MICHAEL:
I'm the headline
of Madison Square Garden.

2454
01:37:02.991 --> 01:37:04.514
Place was sold out.

2455
01:37:04.514 --> 01:37:05.907
There was fans
everywhere, you know.

2456
01:37:05.907 --> 01:37:07.647
It was big.

2457
01:37:07.647 --> 01:37:09.171
It was huge.

2458
01:37:09.171 --> 01:37:10.912
It was definitely the pinnacle
of my career, the biggest

2459
01:37:10.912 --> 01:37:12.739
fight I've ever had.

2460
01:37:12.739 --> 01:37:14.089
MAN:
I am so fucking excited
to be here at Madison Square

2461
01:37:14.089 --> 01:37:15.481
Garden tomorrow night.

2462
01:37:15.481 --> 01:37:17.440
Michael Bisping is
gonna tear GSP's head off.

2463
01:37:17.440 --> 01:37:19.398
It's gonna be fucking insane.

2464
01:37:19.398 --> 01:37:20.225
MAN:
I've come here from the
UK to watch

2465
01:37:20.225 --> 01:37:22.053
Michael Bisping fight.

2466
01:37:22.053 --> 01:37:24.012
He can scramble, and he's got
the jab, and the good looks

2467
01:37:24.012 --> 01:37:25.448
of a British man.

2468
01:37:25.448 --> 01:37:26.928
Fucking Michael Bisping,
ladies and gentlemen.

2469
01:37:26.928 --> 01:37:28.625
Michael fucking Bisping.

2470
01:37:28.625 --> 01:37:29.800
DANIEL:
Oh.

2471
01:37:29.800 --> 01:37:31.236
[indistinct] by Bisping.

2472
01:37:31.236 --> 01:37:32.542
GEORGES:
After that, that
punch, I was on

2473
01:37:32.542 --> 01:37:33.935
cruise control.

2474
01:37:33.935 --> 01:37:36.024
JOE:
Oh... Right hand
over the top by Bisping.

2475
01:37:36.024 --> 01:37:37.939
GEORGES:
To be very humble,
I could have lost because

2476
01:37:37.939 --> 01:37:39.375
of that punch.

2477
01:37:39.375 --> 01:37:42.987
MICHAEL:
It didn't go my way.

2478
01:37:42.987 --> 01:37:46.773
Georges choked me out in the
3rd round and took my belt,

2479
01:37:46.773 --> 01:37:48.036
but he's the greatest
of all time, you know.

2480
01:37:48.036 --> 01:37:49.211
No regrets.

2481
01:37:49.211 --> 01:37:51.691
[♪♪♪]

2482
01:37:51.691 --> 01:37:52.997
MICHAEL:
This was the
biggest fight of the year.

2483
01:37:52.997 --> 01:37:55.391
One of the biggest UFC fight
ever, and just to be a part

2484
01:37:55.391 --> 01:37:57.654
of it, you know, I was
immensely proud.

2485
01:37:57.654 --> 01:37:59.961
[♪♪♪]

2486
01:37:59.961 --> 01:38:02.702
MICHAEL:
After I lost the
belt to GSP, I, you know,

2487
01:38:02.702 --> 01:38:05.444
I hung around New York
for a few days drinking,

2488
01:38:05.444 --> 01:38:06.881
hanging out with my family.

2489
01:38:06.881 --> 01:38:10.885
Came home, you know, eating
like a fat sod, and then

2490
01:38:10.885 --> 01:38:12.887
Anderson Silva failed
the steroid test.

2491
01:38:12.887 --> 01:38:14.801
He was out of his fight.

2492
01:38:14.801 --> 01:38:16.934
They needed a replacement for
his opponent, Kelvin Gastelum.

2493
01:38:16.934 --> 01:38:19.415
Number 1, I think I
could beat the guy.

2494
01:38:19.415 --> 01:38:21.721
Secondly, let's get
another pay day.

2495
01:38:21.721 --> 01:38:23.027
Why not?

2496
01:38:23.027 --> 01:38:25.203
[♪♪♪]

2497
01:39:12.990 --> 01:39:14.339
MICHAEL:
Long story short,
I lose the fight.

2498
01:39:14.339 --> 01:39:16.646
Boom, get get called for shots.

2499
01:39:16.646 --> 01:39:18.865
MICHAEL:
I don't know if
it was that shot or

2500
01:39:18.865 --> 01:39:21.085
maybe that was just the icing
on the cake, after taking

2501
01:39:21.085 --> 01:39:24.175
thousands and thousands
of punches, and I thought,

2502
01:39:24.175 --> 01:39:25.437
"Well, I've had the bad luck.

2503
01:39:25.437 --> 01:39:28.049
Lightening doesn't strike twice.

2504
01:39:28.049 --> 01:39:31.791
I'm never gonna get a detached
retina in my good eye.

2505
01:39:31.791 --> 01:39:32.879
Oh my God.

2506
01:39:32.879 --> 01:39:34.142
I don't believe this.

2507
01:39:34.142 --> 01:39:37.101
Everything what the doctors
had warned me my entire

2508
01:39:37.101 --> 01:39:39.886
career, is now happened".

2509
01:39:39.886 --> 01:39:41.323
I couldn't believe it.

2510
01:39:41.323 --> 01:39:42.977
And you know, yeah, it was a
detached retina, but I got a

2511
01:39:42.977 --> 01:39:46.110
vitreous detachment.

2512
01:39:46.110 --> 01:39:49.200
This is someone's good eye,
and now, in my good eye,

2513
01:39:49.200 --> 01:39:52.290
I have a condition known as a
partial vitreous detachment.

2514
01:39:52.290 --> 01:39:54.945
It's where the vitreous shrinks
and separates from the retina,

2515
01:39:54.945 --> 01:39:59.819
which impairs your vision and
can lead to blindness.

2516
01:39:59.819 --> 01:40:02.126
And then I was flying to
New York, was gonna film,

2517
01:40:02.126 --> 01:40:05.129
ah record an episode of my
podcast, and I watched this

2518
01:40:05.129 --> 01:40:07.305
movie on the plane called,
"The Journeyman" with

2519
01:40:07.305 --> 01:40:11.396
Paddy Considine, and it's
about a world champion boxer

2520
01:40:11.396 --> 01:40:15.139
that wins a fight, goes home,
he has brain damage, and it's

2521
01:40:15.139 --> 01:40:19.100
a very powerful sad story, and
you know, he, at one point he

2522
01:40:19.100 --> 01:40:21.232
puts his baby in the tumble
dryer because his brain's

2523
01:40:21.232 --> 01:40:22.842
all messed, you know.

2524
01:40:22.842 --> 01:40:24.366
He doesn't know what
he's doing, you know.

2525
01:40:24.366 --> 01:40:28.065
And I sat there watching this
movie on the plane, balling

2526
01:40:28.065 --> 01:40:31.416
my eyes out, crying, you know,
and I just thought,

2527
01:40:31.416 --> 01:40:32.939
"What am I doing?"

2528
01:40:32.939 --> 01:40:34.898
You know, "This,
this isn't worth it,"

2529
01:40:34.898 --> 01:40:36.639
and a good friend of mine,
Jason, said to me, he said,

2530
01:40:36.639 --> 01:40:38.945
"Michael," he said,
"If you went blind,

2531
01:40:38.945 --> 01:40:43.211
you would give every penny you
had to ever, to be able to

2532
01:40:43.211 --> 01:40:47.432
see again," you know, and I
thought, "He's right,"

2533
01:40:47.432 --> 01:40:50.609
and I got off that plane and
went and did my podcast and

2534
01:40:50.609 --> 01:40:52.394
announced on my podcast
that I was retired.

2535
01:40:52.394 --> 01:40:54.265
LUIS:
You wanted to, to make
an announcement on

2536
01:40:54.265 --> 01:40:56.311
today's show.

2537
01:40:56.311 --> 01:40:57.181
MICHAEL:
Unfortunately, it's not
a fight that I'm announcing.

2538
01:40:57.181 --> 01:41:00.271
I am going to announce my
official retirement from

2539
01:41:00.271 --> 01:41:01.925
mixed martial arts.

2540
01:41:01.925 --> 01:41:03.448
DANA:
Bisping is
a fighter, man.

2541
01:41:03.448 --> 01:41:06.321
You know, toward the end of
his career, he won the title,

2542
01:41:06.321 --> 01:41:09.628
and he fought nothing but the
best, and the thing is, with

2543
01:41:09.628 --> 01:41:11.500
Bisping, he fought the
best his whole career.

2544
01:41:11.500 --> 01:41:14.851
KENNY:
What you do becomes
your identity, and to say,

2545
01:41:14.851 --> 01:41:18.507
"Goodbye," to it means
to say goodbye to your self.

2546
01:41:18.507 --> 01:41:21.162
DANA:
Normal human beings like
you and I will never know what

2547
01:41:21.162 --> 01:41:24.904
it's like to walk through a
tunnel, you know, with 20,000

2548
01:41:24.904 --> 01:41:27.298
people cheering you or booing
you or whatever the

2549
01:41:27.298 --> 01:41:29.300
story might be.

2550
01:41:29.300 --> 01:41:31.911
That's a high that we'll never
know and never feel ever in

2551
01:41:31.911 --> 01:41:34.479
our lifetime, and that's what
you were put on this earth

2552
01:41:34.479 --> 01:41:36.177
to do, and now you
have to walk away?

2553
01:41:36.177 --> 01:41:38.222
It's hard.

2554
01:41:38.222 --> 01:41:40.094
LAURA:
Former middleweight
champion,

2555
01:41:40.094 --> 01:41:43.575
Michael "The Count"
Bisping will be inducted to the

2556
01:41:43.575 --> 01:41:45.186
UFC Hall of Fame.

2557
01:41:45.186 --> 01:41:48.363
It is an honour he is so
deserving of, and on behalf of

2558
01:41:48.363 --> 01:41:51.714
fans around the world, my self
included, Michael, we

2559
01:41:51.714 --> 01:41:54.238
thank you for everything
that you have given us.

2560
01:41:54.238 --> 01:41:56.458
A career that is
truly legendary.

2561
01:41:56.458 --> 01:41:58.721
[♪♪♪]

2562
01:42:02.116 --> 01:42:06.250
JOE:
I think Mike stands out
as being, without a doubt,

2563
01:42:06.250 --> 01:42:09.645
one of the most durable and
toughest guys to have ever

2564
01:42:09.645 --> 01:42:11.647
fought inside the octagon.

2565
01:42:11.647 --> 01:42:16.130
MIESHA:
He's a multi-talented
individual, and I think people

2566
01:42:16.130 --> 01:42:19.829
will always remember
Michael Bisping as, as being

2567
01:42:19.829 --> 01:42:24.181
somebody who made a difference
in the sport of MMA.

2568
01:42:24.181 --> 01:42:30.231
VIN:
I've never in my life
heard of a fighter walk into

2569
01:42:30.231 --> 01:42:33.059
a ring in any kind of sport,
let alone the deadliest sport,

2570
01:42:33.059 --> 01:42:33.582
right?

2571
01:42:33.582 --> 01:42:35.888
Mixed Martial Arts.

2572
01:42:35.888 --> 01:42:39.936
With one eye.

2573
01:42:39.936 --> 01:42:41.590
Ever.

2574
01:42:41.590 --> 01:42:43.548
If you ask Muhammad Ali.

2575
01:42:43.548 --> 01:42:47.073
If you asked Joe Lewis if a
person could walk in a ring

2576
01:42:47.073 --> 01:42:49.511
with one eye, they'd
say, "You can't".

2577
01:42:49.511 --> 01:42:54.733
But he did, and he won.

2578
01:42:54.733 --> 01:42:55.995
DANA:
Bisping is a fighter.

2579
01:42:55.995 --> 01:42:57.693
Bisping will fight
at the drop of a hat.

2580
01:42:57.693 --> 01:42:59.347
Anybody.

2581
01:42:59.347 --> 01:43:01.523
He doesn't care who you are,
how tough you think you are,

2582
01:43:01.523 --> 01:43:02.915
how tough you really are.

2583
01:43:02.915 --> 01:43:04.917
If you think you're better
than him, you think you

2584
01:43:04.917 --> 01:43:05.744
can beat him?

2585
01:43:05.744 --> 01:43:08.007
Bisping's down to find out.

2586
01:43:08.007 --> 01:43:12.316
MICKEY:
I can beat
Michael Bisping.

2587
01:43:12.316 --> 01:43:14.927
This is the only way I
can beat Michael Bisping.

2588
01:43:14.927 --> 01:43:16.059
[laughing]

2589
01:43:16.059 --> 01:43:18.279
Betty Lou.

2590
01:43:18.279 --> 01:43:21.717
It's easy to have a friend
like that, because I have

2591
01:43:21.717 --> 01:43:25.764
so much, so much
respect for the man.

2592
01:43:25.764 --> 01:43:26.896
JASON:
Calls me up to be on a
radio show, and he starts it

2593
01:43:26.896 --> 01:43:29.464
off to thank me.

2594
01:43:29.464 --> 01:43:34.469
I could cry right now thinking
about it, because, as a coach,

2595
01:43:34.469 --> 01:43:37.907
when the athletes remember
what the fuck you told them,

2596
01:43:37.907 --> 01:43:39.996
when athletes remember
what you do for them?

2597
01:43:39.996 --> 01:43:42.999
It's a different animal,
because I did cry.

2598
01:43:42.999 --> 01:43:44.130
I cried in the
phone right there.

2599
01:43:44.130 --> 01:43:45.262
I couldn't even talk.

2600
01:43:45.262 --> 01:43:46.437
I was, like I said,
I could cry right now.

2601
01:43:46.437 --> 01:43:49.614
Michael Bisping doesn't forget.

2602
01:43:49.614 --> 01:43:52.791
DAZ:
Everything that he does,
everything, is for that family

2603
01:43:52.791 --> 01:43:54.663
and them kids and his missus.

2604
01:43:54.663 --> 01:43:56.491
He's not some, some gangster.

2605
01:43:56.491 --> 01:43:59.320
He's not some, some knucklehead.

2606
01:43:59.320 --> 01:44:03.976
He's a family man that
dreampt a dream and lived it.

2607
01:44:03.976 --> 01:44:06.501
[applause]

2608
01:44:06.501 --> 01:44:08.764
[♪♪♪]

2609
01:44:11.636 --> 01:44:13.682
MICHAEL:
You know, this has
changed my life in such a way

2610
01:44:13.682 --> 01:44:16.946
you will never believe, you
know, but my dream was always

2611
01:44:16.946 --> 01:44:20.689
giving a better life
to my family, okay?

2612
01:44:20.689 --> 01:44:22.604
And that's all I ever wanted.

2613
01:44:22.604 --> 01:44:24.432
CALLUM:
I'm really, really
appreciative, so I would say,

2614
01:44:24.432 --> 01:44:25.824
"Thank you".

2615
01:44:25.824 --> 01:44:27.435
Just sacrificing his
health, you know.

2616
01:44:27.435 --> 01:44:28.262
Everything.

2617
01:44:28.262 --> 01:44:29.175
So.

2618
01:44:29.175 --> 01:44:31.177
Just thank you.

2619
01:44:31.177 --> 01:44:33.789
REBECCA:
For the love that he
has for me and for the kids,

2620
01:44:33.789 --> 01:44:40.665
that's his only
motivation in life.

2621
01:44:40.665 --> 01:44:41.971
MICHAEL:
I must've been 10
years old, "I'm gonna

2622
01:44:41.971 --> 01:44:43.581
be champion of the
world one day".

2623
01:44:43.581 --> 01:44:45.627
But that always stuck with
me, you know, always kept me

2624
01:44:45.627 --> 01:44:47.890
pushing on and working hard.

2625
01:44:47.890 --> 01:44:49.457
So many ups and downs,
peaks and valleys.

2626
01:44:49.457 --> 01:44:52.895
Beyond satisfying, but more
for my family, you know,

2627
01:44:52.895 --> 01:44:55.201
'cause as I said, "They'd
sacrificed with me".

2628
01:44:55.201 --> 01:44:57.291
For me, the sacrifice was
easy, because I'm chasing

2629
01:44:57.291 --> 01:44:59.118
my dream.

2630
01:44:59.118 --> 01:45:01.469
To support me, and go through
the ups and downs with me,

2631
01:45:01.469 --> 01:45:04.080
yeah, it was big.

2632
01:45:04.080 --> 01:45:08.084
[applause]

2633
01:45:08.084 --> 01:45:12.915
[♪♪♪]

2634
01:45:14.351 --> 01:45:18.921
[applause]

2635
01:45:34.240 --> 01:45:41.552
[♪♪♪]