Here is my first idea that hearing that Vitor Belfort will be included in the UFC Hall of Fame in this summer: Wait, he is not already in the Hall of Fame?
Just after that, my second idea was: wonder what Michael Bisping thinks about it.
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This is not satire, just to be clear. This is an honest entry that, more than someone else, Bisping has the right to feel any kind of way. This is because back in 2013, when Belfort and Bisping collided with a UFC Fight Night event in Sau Paulo, Brazil, Belfort landed a knockout kick, eventually the cost of cutting his right eye.
The kick was clean. Belfort? Not so much. As we doubted at that time, and later it was confirmed The most cheerful method is possibleBelfort was made juice with synthetic testosterone. We did not require lab results to explain this (although we eventually received them). All we had to do was to do the action figure Kaya, which he would suddenly sprout in his mid -30s and then apply some basic mathematics.
Belfort, who had already exposed a drug testing a decade ago, was away from taking only one advantage of the MMA World’s license-fare approach. Chel Sonan and Dan Henderson helped Stamp “TRT” in the Fight Fan Vocabulary, claiming that they needed hormonal boosts due to their unusually low testosterone levels.
It was definitely absurd, but perhaps we were living in a absurd time. Belfort, while accumulating highlight-reel finish, aggressively took it aggressively and took it to the next level, which finally played a major role in forcing the state athletic commissions to accept that the whole thing was very ridiculous to continue.
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This is when the TRT eventually ended effectively in the MMA, but it was shallow comfort for bisping. Banning the complement of the choice of Belfort did not restore his right eye. Surely there was no more damage compared to the Bisping by the TRT era in MMA. He fought against at least three known users – Henderson, Sonan and Belfort and lost two of them in quarrels.
Since the disadvantage of Belfort gave him the most cost, at least physically, you may think that there will be some complicated feelings about involving a man in the UFC Hall of Fame in Bisping. You will be right about it. But only at one point.
“Was he a huge fraud? Of course,” Bisping said MMA Zanki Mike Bohan recently. “Did he take a lot of steroids? Of course. Was there many other people doing what they were doing at the same time. So I was there, so I was so, I get it. But when I thought about it, I lost one eye because of this man. I am liking me, no, he can stick his hall of fame.”
Bisping again said: “But he deserves it.”
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This is where it becomes difficult, just mentioned for all reasons. Just going from the official record, you have to accept that Belfort had a great career. He burst on the scene as a teenager in the wild west of the ’90s’ 90s, and was still around somehow-and the title controversy was a much more UFC owned by UFC and a network television deal in mid-2010.
Vitor Belfort excluded Michael Bisping in a notorious 2013 bout in Brazil, which was eventually the cost of cutting his right eye. (Josh Hedes/Zafa LLC via Getty Image)
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It is true that it is all incredible in itself. His UFC titles in heavyweight and light heavyweight also look good on paper, although they are certainly less impressive under the mild investigation compared to the later middleweight run.
In fact, the only possible justification for keeping a man such as Belfort out of the UFC Hall of Fame would be doping items. And if you were doping in one or more of the infamous doping ages of MMA (also see: The pride fighting championship of the whole history), then how much can we reduce it against you, to do it less prudent and more successfully than others?
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Belfort lived many different lives in many different ages of this game. He also resided in many different bodies while doing this. You can’t No Pay attention to this. He practically forced us to make any kind of opinion on it, in a way or another.
Usually fans fighting are more forgiven the goods that have been removed from us. Although this is happening in the moment, of course, it is deception and it is bad (especially when it is not your favorite fighter). But give us a decade either and we will decide that it was really really fun to see and we miss it.
The missing eye of bisping makes it a little harder to do so in the case of Belfort. Professional fight is a game of injury, as we know. There is no doctor anywhere in the world who will tell you that it is good for your health, and everyone who steps into the cage knows that it comes with risks. Bisping could easily lose that eye against a clean fighter. But he did not.
Should Belfort still find a place in the UFC Hall of Fame despite all that? I think so too. But this does not mean that we cannot feel more than one way about it. And if you are doing bisping, I don’t think if you leave the induction ceremony completely then anyone will blame you.