Why Michael Bisping Should be Fired by the UFC

When you look at Mike Tyson and Michael Bisping, they are two polar opposites you would think. One became the youngest heavyweight champion in the world in the sport of boxing and the other one hasn't fully lived up to his potential in the world of MMA. But, when you really look at it, mentally you could make the arguement they are very much alike.

Mike Tyson fought Evander Holyfield in a rematch for the WBA heavyweight title on June 28, 1997 in Las vegas at the MGM Grand and a lot of hype was going into that fight. Would Tyson prove the loss was a fluke and move onto face Lennox Lewis and regain his claim as the baddest man on the planet or would Holyfield define father time and prove it was no fluke. Well, in the 3rd a frustrated Tyson went and bit Holyfield's ear and the fight was allowed to continue, but a few moments Tyson went and did it again and a brawl broke out and the fight was stopped.

Tyson got fined $3 million dollars and his license got revoked for 1 year by the NSAC for his action on that June. Our view of Tyson was never the same after the bout and he got a punishment he deserved.

Fast forward to last night as Michael Bisping faced Jorge Rivera at UFC 127 at the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia in the co-main event. It was quite arguably the most anticpated bout of the evening as Rivera had made videos prior to the fight making fun of Bisping in every aspect.

The fighters weighed-in on Friday and when watching UFC President Dana White's video blog, you can blatently hear Bisping making homophobic slurs toward Rivera. Strike 1 was right there.

Then, we get to last night as both fighters didn't touch gloves to begin the bout. With 2:15 left in the first as Bisping was landing some really good strikes and Rivera was on both knees and Bisping kneed Rivera right to the forehead. In the UFC, that is illegal and the thing about is that Bisping waited a second and then kneed Rivera and pushed his head forward after that before referee Mark Goddard stepped in. And, as Bisping was walking to his corner, he went and gave the middle finger to Rivera's corner. Strike 2.

The fight did continue and Bisping ended winning the fight via TKO due to punches. As Goddard ended the fight, Bisping walked over to the corner of Rivera and spit right at them and then walked over to Rivera and called him a loser. Strike 3

I have no problem with guys being amped up and excited after a big win especially with the heat between these 2 heading into the bout last night. Homophobic slurs are uncalled for, regardless of the sport. Its deragotory and uncalled for and its a shame that the UFC and Dana White didn't out a stop to that after weigh-ins on Friday.

I truely think that if UFC officials would have stepped in and said something to Bisping, then what happened last night does not happen. Regardless of what Bisping tried to tell MMAFighting.com's Ariel Helwani afterwards that it was unintentional. That is one of the biggest lies I have ever heard. If it was unintentional it would have been done right when Rivera got to both knees, not wait a second, look right at him and then knee Rivera in the forehead with a push to the head to boot with a snicker and a middle finger to Rivera's corner.

Then, saying he spit at the ground and not at the corner of Rivera's, when the camera shows Bisping spitting right at Rivera's corner as you can see the reaction from them when it happened.

What a Michael Bisping did the last two days was a lot worse than what Paul Daley did to Josh Koscheck and he got fired for it. The UFC and Dana White just can't give Bisping a slap on the wrist here. It shouldn't matter that he put MMA on the map in the UK. The UFC can only do one thing and that's to the put "The Count" out of the UFC.