UFC Hall of Famer Michael Bisping believes Marvin Vettori would be middleweight champion if not for Israel Adesanya.
Vettori, 28, has dropped two decision losses to Adesanya but he was competitive in both matchups and wasn’t intimidated by Adesanya in the slightest.
Bisping is a personal friend of Vettori’s, so his opinion may be a little biased, but ‘The Count’ firmly believes that Vettori is ‘the next best guy’ at middleweight and one of the best UFC fighters to have never won a world championship.
“He’s the next best guy at 185 in my opinion, he’s doing tremendous things,” Bisping said of Vettori in a recent YouTube video (h/t Sportskeeda).