May 10th, 2012
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When the official Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC Fight Card for UFC 148 in Las Vegas was released earlier in the week, everyone seemed to be bewildered at the fact that there was one notable absentee in the list of matches – the Middleweight division’s flagship fight between Michael Bisping and Tim Boetsch. But now, it has been confirmed that the match will take place after all, not just at UFC 148 but at UFC 149, which is scheduled to take place at Calgary on the 21st of July, according to the top officials who spoke to MMAWeekly.com about the rescheduling of the match.
The UFC has had a lot of reshuffling to do with its matches in recent weeks thanks to the Fight Card of UFC 147 to be held in Brazil losing the high profile Middleweight Championship match between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen as well as the Urijah Faber versus Dominick Cruz match for the UFC Bantamweight Championship, both of which will now be a part of the UFC 148 Fight Card, hence moving the Michael Bisping versus Tom Boetsch showdown to UFC 149.
The reason that the UFC officials have given officially for the reshuffling of the matches is the lack of a suitable venue in Brazil but according to the inside sources, they did not want two huge matches to take place in Brazil when it could rake in a lot more revenue if it was held in the United States itself and as a result, UFC 148 became too top heavy to accommodate the match between Bisping and Boetsch.
The match between Michael Bisping and Tim Boetsch is a pivotal one in the championship picture as both are ranked in the top ten at the moment and the winner would be just another win away from gaining a title shot.
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Michael Bisping might have lost on the night of FOX 2 for the Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC to the number one contender Chael Sonnen, but there are plenty of positives that the Brit can take out of this match. As the saying goes, there is nothing much to take away from a moral victory, but this is in complete contrast to what Bisping has achieved in the match against one of the biggest name in the Mixed Martial Arts world and in the UFC.
Sonnen, who has an MMA record of 27-11-1 and UFC record of 6-4 is an amazing wrestler, truly world class at whatever he does and is easily one of the best pure fighters in the UFC as well as MMA but the way Bisping, with an MMA and UFC record of 22-3 and 12-3 respectively stood up against him deserves credit. Michael Bisping showed vastly improved skills in the match against Sonnen; he was sharp in his takedown defense, had effective scrambles, as well as pin point striking.
Although he lost the match via a split decision, Bisping said that he felt he had won the match. He stressed on the fact that with the plaudits he had got in the social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, he believes that the match was his. Even the man who defeated him, Chael Sonnen admitted that the first two rounds could have gone either way and it was his good luck that he was able to win the match in the end.
Michael Bisping also added that there could have been no way in which the match ended 30-27 and also stressed on the fact that the referee who gave such a decision should consider his options for another career outside of the MMA.
