One of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s longest-serving combatants called it a career on May 28, with former middleweight champion and “The Ultimate Fighter 3” winner Michael Bisping hanging up the gloves at 39 years old. Citing problems with his “good eye” — Bisping’s “bad eye” was the victim of a detached retina back in 2013 — and motivated by the 2017 film “Journeyman,” which centres around a boxing champion who suffers a traumatic brain injury, Bisping announced on his radio podcast that “the time is now” to make the transition out of professional face punching.
A veteran of 39 MMA fights and one of only three men to have had 20 wins inside the octagon, his storied career is worth reflecting upon.
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Jacob Debets 