UFC 159 Main Card Results - Michael Bisping vs Alan Belcher

Michael Bisping defeats Alan Belcher by Technical Decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)

by John Haigh @JohnBjayHaigh

This fight had massive hype before the fight with both fighters showing a big disliking of one another. Often with fights that have been hyped up like this they usually turn in to a bit of an anti climax, as was the case in this fight.

This fight went “just about” three rounds, more on that later. All three rounds were just about identical. The two men set out very different in this fight, Belcher tried to establish his power punches immediately while Bisping used his hand speed, superior movement and technique.

Bisping quickly took control of the fight, every time Belcher would swing for the fences Bisping would slip out of the way and counter landing every time.

As the fight continued Belcher started to gas with his hands dropped almost showing no respect for Bisping’s striking. Bisping as usual showed no sign off slowing down and continued to push the fight countering and every time landing decent combinations.

Late in the third round Bisping accidentally caught Belcher in the eye with a thumb. This sent Belcher to the mat clearly in significant pain. The doctor was called in and when he finally was able to open his eye it was actually bleeding. This was a very bad sign considering Belcher has already had surgeries on this right eye before and was kept out of the octagon for 16 months, hopefully this is not the case this time.

The fight was stopped there and went to the judges scorecards. Bisping had easily done enough and to no surprise got the decision.

After the fight Bisping was very apologetic about the accidental eye poke and said he has nothing against Belcher and was just promoting the fight with his trash talk pre fight.