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Michael Gavin Joseph Bisping (/ ˈ b ɪ s p ɪ ŋ /; born 28 February 1979) is an English [5] sports commentator, analyst, actor, and former mixed martial artist.He competed in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Captured Boxer fighters during the Boxer Rebellion in Tianjin (1901). The Boxers, officially known as the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (traditional Chinese: 義和拳; simplified Chinese: 义和拳; pinyin: Yìhéquán; Wade–Giles: I 4-ho 2-ch'üan 2) among other names, were a Chinese secret society based in Northern China that carried out the Boxer Rebellion from 1899 to 1901.
UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on October 18, 2008, at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Background [ edit ]
The evolution of the martial arts has been described by historians in the context of countless historical battles. Building on the work of Laughlin (1956, 1961), Rudgley argues that Mongolian wrestling, as well as the martial arts of the Chinese, Japanese and Aleut peoples, all have "roots in the prehistoric era and to a common Mongoloid ancestral people who inhabited north-eastern Asia."
Boxing in China began as a street sport in the 1920s, mainly in the port cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou, where foreign sailors were pitted against local fighters in the ring. The sport grew rapidly and unsupervised by the Chinese government. Chinese boxing style is similar to Western boxing style, with influences from traditional Chinese ...
The event was headlined by a middleweight bout between Michael Bisping and Cung Le. [3]It was the third event that the organization had hosted in the CotaiArena following UFC on Fuel TV: Franklin vs. Le in November 2012 and The Ultimate Fighter China Finale: Kim vs. Hathaway in March 2014.
UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Gastelum The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Gastelum (also known as UFC Fight Night 122 ) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship and held on November 25, 2017, at Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai , China .
Bisping would next face Wanderlei Silva at UFC 110, where Bisping suffered a unanimous decision loss, [9] but he came back at UFC 114 against Dan Miller to claim a convincing decision victory of his own, [9] meaning that Bisping was 2–2 in the last 12 months. Bisping then took the opportunity to improve his coaching staff prior to the bout. [4]