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Michael Bisping Responds to Luke Rockhold: ‘Try to Claw Your Way Back to the Top’

Michael Bisping has some suggestions for Luke Rockhold after the American Kickboxing Academy product trashed the Englishman’s reign as middleweight champion.

Fresh off a victory over former World Series of Fighting two-division David Branch at UFC Fight Night 116 last Saturday, Rockhold appeared on “UFC Tonight,” where he criticized Bisping’s choice of opponents as champion.

“I think it’s the worst in UFC history,” Rockhold said. “No one has ever gotten that treatment. No one’s avoided every top contender. He was supposed to fight Jacare. He avoided that. He was supposed to fight Yoel [Romero].