Michael Bisping Deserves an Honorable Mention for 'BMF'

Michael Bisping really liked being a professional fighter.

Need proof? Well, according to an interview with MMA Junkie this past July, Bisping let fans know that after his 2013 bout with Vitor Belfort, “The Count” continued his career with only one eye. “I was just about able to scrape past the medicals,” Bisping said in his interview. “It was definitely touch and go. I was always terrified of doing a full training camp, then being turned away by the commission doctor.”

The article from back then describes Bisping removing the eye fans are used to seeing, revealing that what folks are used to seeing on Bisping is a prosthetic. This isn't for fight fans, but for getting passed the medicals for his fights. If the description of his eye removal wasn't enough, Bisping doubled down this week on his “Believe You Me” podcast by popping it out again and saying, “I wore my glasses, my dark glasses to hide from the commission. Get a load of this baby boys.” He then proceeds to remove it for the listeners of his video podcast (seen above).

With UFC 244 a month away being headlined for a fight to see who the “Baddest MF” is in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, there should be an honorable mention for Bisping, who not only continued to fight with an injury that would shelve a lot of fighters, but went out of his way to keep doing what he loved. Not only did he keep fighting and winning, but he got to avenge his losses to Luke Rockhold and Dan Henderson while winning the middleweight title to boot.

Bisping would lose that title to Georges St. Pierre but that loss does not seem so bad now, knowing St-Pierre beat a one-eyed man.

Edward Carbajal serves as the lead MMA analyst for Frontproof Media and holds a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a brown belt in Ishin Ryu karate. He has covered combat sports since 2014 and has been a fan of MMA since the first UFC. You can follow him on Twitter @Carbazel or at his website TheBlogBoardJungle.com.