Michael Bisping has revealed he was ‘malnourished’ going into his first fight with Dan Henderson.
The British UFC legend was on the receiving end of a devastating knockout defeat courtesy of a trademark ‘H-Bomb’ in 2009.
It marked the first time that Bisping had been knocked out in his entire professional MMA career.
To make matters worse, it happened to take place on arguably the biggest UFC event of all time, UFC 100.
Now, some thirteen years later, Bisping has spoken about
Bisping told MMA Junkie: “I mean, getting knocked out unconscious like that and the whole world laughing at you for a long time, well you can take it two ways, can’t you?
“You can either be defeated and feel sorry for yourself and all the rest of it or you can learn from it, simple as that, and that’s what I did.
“That fight there – let’s remember Dan Henderson was on testosterone replacement therapy so shame on him. He still went on to have a long career after they outlawed that which is very interesting isn’t it? I always had a tough stance against people that take steroids and I still do so you get no passes from me unfortunately.
“They always say you learn from your losses not your wins. If you’re winning all the time there’s a potential – not always – that you’ll develop bad habits and things like that. It’s only when you go out there and you lose a fight like against Rashad Evans I figured out I was competing in the wrong weight class.
“Against Dan Henderson, I got knocked out. I was coming in, I was over-training, I was malnourished, I was underweight. I wasn’t cutting weight, again, I cut like one or two pounds on the day just with a sauna suit on going for a walk.
“So there was still a lot of things going wrong, but I was still young in
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