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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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[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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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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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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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
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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
was our house.

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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
each in the other 3.

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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
you're trying to do your

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best with all of 'em.

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SHIREEN:
He had to retire from
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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
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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
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to train".

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MICHAEL:
You know, I never
played sports when I was

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a kid.

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When I was at school and we
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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
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8 years old.

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Fighting was something
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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
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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
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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
volatile household.

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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,

334
00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:37,947
"See that pub there, Daz?"

335
00:13:37,947 --> 00:13:39,296
I said, "Yeah".

336
00:13:39,296 --> 00:13:39,819
He said, "I got
thrown out of there.

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00:13:39,819 --> 00:13:41,211
See that pub over there?

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6 doormen started on me.

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00:13:42,343 --> 00:13:43,257
You see that pub over there?

340
00:13:43,257 --> 00:13:44,127
Well, this happened.

341
00:13:44,127 --> 00:13:44,954
You see that pub there?

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That happened".

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00:13:46,869 --> 00:13:48,088
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.

347
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You know what I mean.

348
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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.

351
00:14:01,710 --> 00:14:03,799
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

356
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the bin, and I'm like, fucking
having a mini heart attack

357
00:14:17,030 --> 00:14:18,814
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

359
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bite you.

360
00:14:20,990 --> 00:14:22,687
You're okay.

361
00:14:22,687 --> 00:14:23,688
Just grab 'em and put
them in the fucking bin".

362
00:14:23,688 --> 00:14:24,994
I'm like, "Dude.

363
00:14:24,994 --> 00:14:27,040
That's a sheep's head
that's just been cut off.

364
00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:27,779
I'm done.

365
00:14:27,779 --> 00:14:28,519
I'm out of here.

366
00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:29,216
Fuck this.

367
00:14:29,216 --> 00:14:29,999
Stick it up your ass".

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00:14:29,999 --> 00:14:31,871
What else?

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00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:35,657
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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00:14:38,051 --> 00:14:39,922
people's doors, and they'd
open the door, and I'd go,

372
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"Hi. Hello, sir.

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Sorry to bother you.

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00:14:42,577 --> 00:14:44,709
Are you aware of deregulation
with the gas rules,"

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00:14:44,709 --> 00:14:45,188
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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00:14:51,499 --> 00:14:52,804
I thought I was gonna
get a sale there".

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00:14:52,804 --> 00:14:55,155
[♪♪♪]

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00:14:55,155 --> 00:14:56,243
MICHAEL:
Working in fucking
shitty dead-end factories

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00:14:56,243 --> 00:14:57,461
wasn't who I was.

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00:14:57,461 --> 00:14:59,246
That's why I was so unhappy.

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00:14:59,246 --> 00:15:01,857
Certainly, me and my friends,
we'd work Monday to Friday,

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00:15:01,857 --> 00:15:04,251
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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00:15:05,252 --> 00:15:06,079
"Oh, you think you tough?"

390
00:15:06,079 --> 00:15:08,690
Like, "Fight. Fight me,"

391
00:15:08,690 --> 00:15:11,171
and he would say,
"No," and they would hit him,

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00:15:11,171 --> 00:15:13,956
and he would always finish it,
but it was defence, and it got

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00:15:13,956 --> 00:15:16,089
him in trouble.

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00:15:16,089 --> 00:15:17,264
MICHAEL:
I know this one
particular occasion, I was.

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We were in a bar.

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00:15:19,570 --> 00:15:21,616
MICHAEL:
This is the bar, right here.

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00:15:21,616 --> 00:15:23,879
So, we come out here, and one
guy that punched me,

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00:15:23,879 --> 00:15:25,750
so I'm like, "Okay.

399
00:15:25,750 --> 00:15:26,577
Well, it's on".

400
00:15:26,577 --> 00:15:28,188
You know?

401
00:15:28,188 --> 00:15:29,798
And he grabs this girl, and
he grabs her - he's in like

402
00:15:29,798 --> 00:15:31,365
a full nelson.

403
00:15:31,365 --> 00:15:34,542
He's stood in the
middle of the road.

404
00:15:34,542 --> 00:15:36,152
He's got this girl grabbed.

405
00:15:36,152 --> 00:15:37,893
I'm like, "Oh my God.

406
00:15:37,893 --> 00:15:39,242
What are you doing?

407
00:15:39,242 --> 00:15:39,939
You're acting like a tough
guy, but now you're using

408
00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:42,985
a girl as a human shield".

409
00:15:42,985 --> 00:15:45,988
As I'm standing here like
this, I can see the other one.

410
00:15:45,988 --> 00:15:47,990
He's getting closer and closer.

411
00:15:47,990 --> 00:15:50,688
He's edging closer, and the
other guy's talking, so he's

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00:15:50,688 --> 00:15:53,169
got my attention, and the
other guy's edging closer

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00:15:53,169 --> 00:15:56,129
and closer.

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00:15:56,129 --> 00:15:57,869
And I could see him, but he
didn't - I didn't let him know

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00:15:57,869 --> 00:15:59,088
that I could see him.

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00:15:59,088 --> 00:16:00,872
Boom.

417
00:16:00,872 --> 00:16:03,745
Head-kicked him.

418
00:16:03,745 --> 00:16:04,485
[hands clapping]

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00:16:04,485 --> 00:16:06,095
MICHAEL:
He hits the deck.

420
00:16:06,095 --> 00:16:08,141
I was laid in bed, it was summer
so the window was opened,

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00:16:08,141 --> 00:16:09,316
and I heard a knock at the door.

422
00:16:09,316 --> 00:16:11,057
It was super early.

423
00:16:11,057 --> 00:16:12,667
And I peer out the window.

424
00:16:12,667 --> 00:16:13,798
There was like 3
cops at the door.

425
00:16:13,798 --> 00:16:15,322
I'm like, "Shit.

426
00:16:15,322 --> 00:16:16,497
What do they want?"

427
00:16:16,497 --> 00:16:18,281
Kind of had an idea.

428
00:16:18,281 --> 00:16:19,456
And I looked out the door
there at the back, and there

429
00:16:19,456 --> 00:16:21,023
was like 4 cops there as well.

430
00:16:21,023 --> 00:16:22,329
I'm like, "Oh shit.

431
00:16:22,329 --> 00:16:23,417
What is going on?"

432
00:16:23,417 --> 00:16:24,461
I thought, "I'd better go down".

433
00:16:24,461 --> 00:16:26,246
It's like 7 in the morning.

434
00:16:26,246 --> 00:16:30,424
So, I go downstairs, and then,
I'm trying to talk to the

435
00:16:30,424 --> 00:16:32,208
cops, and like,
"You're under arrest".

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00:16:32,208 --> 00:16:34,254
SHIREEN:
It sounds awful, but
it was kind of normal, and

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00:16:34,254 --> 00:16:39,737
I think this time was different
because he was in trouble.

438
00:16:39,737 --> 00:16:42,175
You know, and it was this
time it was big trouble.

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00:16:42,175 --> 00:16:44,046
MICHAEL:
The judge sentenced
me to 28 days in prison.

440
00:16:44,046 --> 00:16:45,134
[gavel striking]

441
00:16:45,134 --> 00:16:48,703
[♪♪♪]

442
00:16:48,703 --> 00:16:50,270
MICHAEL:
This is the
fucking dregs of society.

443
00:16:50,270 --> 00:16:52,446
I am not one of these people.

444
00:16:52,446 --> 00:16:54,361
I'm better than this, and I
said to myself there and then,

445
00:16:54,361 --> 00:16:55,231
I said, "That's it.

446
00:16:55,231 --> 00:16:56,450
That's it.

447
00:16:56,450 --> 00:16:58,104
I am fucking done with this.

448
00:16:58,104 --> 00:17:00,845
I will never be back in this
type of environment ever

449
00:17:00,845 --> 00:17:04,153
again, and I will never throw
another punch in my life".

450
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
[♪♪♪]

453
00:17:11,204 --> 00:17:12,727
MICHAEL:
You know,
I learned my lesson.

454
00:17:12,727 --> 00:17:14,250
You know, and I thank that
judge for that, because

455
00:17:14,250 --> 00:17:15,121
he did teach me a lesson.

456
00:17:15,121 --> 00:17:15,947
I was kind of reckless.

457
00:17:15,947 --> 00:17:19,603
I was an idiot.

458
00:17:19,603 --> 00:17:21,170
We've all got volatile tempers.

459
00:17:21,170 --> 00:17:23,825
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
00:17:25,087 --> 00:17:27,220
It made me who I am.

462
00:17:29,265 --> 00:17:30,484
I had a good childhood.

463
00:17:30,484 --> 00:17:32,007
I had a great childhood.

464
00:17:32,007 --> 00:17:33,878
I saw a lot of violence.

465
00:17:33,878 --> 00:17:36,577
Saw a lot of violence as a
child, way too much violence.

466
00:17:36,577 --> 00:17:38,057
I love my parents dearly.

467
00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:39,232
They did their best by me.

468
00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:44,150
MICHAEL:
I think I was forced
to be mentally tough,

469
00:17:44,150 --> 00:17:44,802
to be honest.

470
00:17:44,802 --> 00:17:46,456
Yeah.

471
00:17:46,456 --> 00:17:50,025
I mean, I saw things that, you
know, a child my size, age,

472
00:17:50,025 --> 00:17:52,332
shouldn't have seen,
you know, but-.

473
00:17:52,332 --> 00:17:52,897
INTERVIEWER:
Like what?

474
00:17:52,897 --> 00:17:54,247
Be specific.

475
00:17:54,247 --> 00:17:56,597
MICHAEL:
Just, you know.

476
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

478
00:18:05,997 --> 00:18:08,826
a bus, you know.

479
00:18:08,826 --> 00:18:09,827
So.

480
00:18:09,827 --> 00:18:11,090
[sniffing]

481
00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:12,308
[exhaling]

482
00:18:21,796 --> 00:18:22,275
INTERVIEWER:
Is it just
stuff at home you-.

483
00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:23,102
MICHAEL:
Yeah.

484
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
00:18:33,503 --> 00:18:34,417
dad was going through.

487
00:18:34,417 --> 00:18:35,679
Probably a bit of depression.

488
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.

494
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
[♪♪♪]