Jorge Masvidal and former UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping have not always had the best things to say about each other over the years.
Bisping suffered a knockout loss to Kelvin Gastelum last year at UFC Fight Night Shanghai, but Bisping and Masvidal had an altercation backstage after the event.
“I see him already coming from the corner, so I just give him my back and I’m like, ‘Man, I don’t even want to see this dude,’” Masvidal said on The MMA Hour. “I’m hoping he doesn’t see me, but I’m not going to just storm off from the fans and be like, ‘No, I’m not taking pictures because Bisping’s coming.’ So as I’m taking pictures, he’s crossing me by and he gets maybe three feet from me, he sticks out the middle finger and he screams as loud as he can like a little girl, ‘F-ck you! F-ck you! You’re a disgrace to the sport! F*ck you!’ So I just f-cking lost my mind and I went after him, and a couple UFC employees got there, but there wasn’t that many people to really hold us back. They were mainly holding him back. And his team knew that he was out of line, so they were holding him, and I had maybe like two people on me so I could shake these people and I was trying to. Like always, he cowered out, just like he did in New York, got inside the elevator talking numerous sh*t. (UFC executive) Reed Harris was there trying to take the bullet for him, so he should send a gift basket to Reed Harris at some point thanking him for his life.”
The two have never gotten physical yet and may never get the chance to since Bisping’s next fight is going to be his last.
Masvidal even believes the former middleweight champion is simply a racist person at heart.
“For what Bisping’s done and how he’s acted, I sincerely, in my heart, believe he’s a racist piece of sh-t. I want to break his f-cking face. He spit on a Latin corner’s fighter before [when he fought Jorge Rivera at UFC 127]. He talks numerous sh-t about Yoel like Yoel’s not even f-cking human. And then he rips up my country’s flag. So you can’t tell me and nobody can tell me, ‘No, this is part of the game. He’s just trying to…” No, no, no. I truly believe he is racist. He’s a white imperial motherf-cker, or at least he thinks that, and I would to break his f-cking face. So there’s nothing more to it,” says Masvidal.
Upon receiving word on the claims made by Masvidal, an angry Bisping would give his version of what went down during an edition of Believe You Me.
“Here’s what happened in Shanghai. He’s always there, he’s always talking s**t. He’s a little a**hole, whatever. As I’m walking through the lobby, I see him and just give him the middle finger. I walk past and I go “f**k you” just as I’m walking by. I just lost a fight, I wasn’t in the best mood and that’s all it was. I wasn’t trying to get at anybody. I don’t go around trying to attack people in hotel lobbies. You know where Jorge Masvidal resonates with me? The other day I was biting my fingernails - you ever bite your fingernails and when you rip it off, you take a bit of skin with you? It’s annoying and it stings but it’s not really there, it’s only now and again. He’s about that level. That’s how much you resonate on my radar Jorge Masvidal. . . That’s what you’re like: you are an annoyance, you’re always there, but in a couple of days you’ll be gone," says Bisping.
It would appear that the issues between these two fighters may never come to an end.
