Everything you need to know about this weekend's big fight between Anderson Silva and Michael Bisping.
Overview
“I back. Trust me. I back.”
That was the concise message a smiling Anderson Silva delivered to fans of mixed martial arts one day in the summer of 2013, a week after he’d clowned his way to an unthinkable knockout loss to Chris Weidman, marking the end of a 17-fight win streak. The broken English was endearing back then because everything about “The Spider” sparkled like the star that he was. He might have been no longer the UFC’s middleweight champion at that moment, but his announcement served notice that the defeat was nothing more than a speed bump on the golden road, and he’d soon be rectifying the situation.