It took just three weeks for Michael Bisping to step back into the the Octagon after his crushing championship defeat to Georges St-Pierre at UFC 217, losing the middleweight title after being battered with ground and pound and choked unconscious in the third round.
Bisping, 38, decided to step up on short notice to face top ten contender Kelvin Gastelum at UFC Fight Night 122 after Gastelum’s original opponent, Anderson Silva, was removed from the event after failing an out-of-competition drug test administered by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).