Michael Bisping again teases trilogy fight with fellow ex-UFC champ Luke Rockhold

The UFC returns to London next week, which is where it was presumed for a while we’d see Michael Bisping’s retirement fight.

Bisping, though, is not on the card at UFC Fight Night 127, meaning he has yet to book a fight for what he this past fall said would be his final bout. Options abound for “The Count,” but the one that keeps getting brought up the most is a trilogy fight with a heated rival.

Bisping (30-9 MMA, 20-9 UFC) early today tweeted another hint that a fight against Luke Rockhold (16-4 MMA, 6-3 UFC) may be in the works.

“Should I do everyone a favor and force this guy into retirement?” Bisping asked on Twitter, while linking to a tweet from BT Sport quoting Rockhold saying if Bisping beats him in a proposed third fight, he would retire.

Bisping started talking retirement fights after he lost the middleweight title to Georges St-Pierre at UFC 217 in November. The title he lost is the one he took from Rockhold in their second fight at UFC 199 in June 2016.

Rockhold earlier this week said the fight is very much a possibility, and Bisping didn’t dispute that on his “Believe You Me” podcast – though he did say Rockhold sounded “mentally challenged” and that he needed the right deal.

The two first fought at UFC Fight Night 55 in November 2014, where Rockhold won with a second-round guillotine choke after dropping Bisping with a head kick. Rockhold went on to finish Chris Weidman to win the title in December 2015.

After a loss to Yoel Romero in an interim middleweight title fight in the UFC 221 main event in February, Rockhold said a move up to light heavyweight may be in teh works for him. He said he’d be willing to fight Bisping at 205 pounds, though Bisping said on his podcast he might want to do the fight at 185, just to annoy Rockhold with a weight cut.

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