Unfortunate ending to the fight, but it was irrelevant in my opinion. Bisping out classed Belcher. Belcher has a solid ground game, but he didn't count on Bisping being the better wrestler and stuffing his take downs quite easily.
Bisping looked good tonight. He has no power, but that makes it more impressive to me. A lot of guys having average stand up, but a lot of power. If they didn't have such heavy hands, you can tell they wouldn't be as successful. Bisping has gotten to where he is with his technique. He didn't have heavy hands to fall back on. If he did, he'd be an absolute monster.
I've been discrediting Belcher for a long time saying that aspects of his game are overrated and getting irritated with certain people who say he's an elite fighter that would school Bisping and give Anderson Silva a tough fight. While it feels good to be right about Bisping being the better fighter and proving it tonight, I got to say that Belcher at least stayed in there and took every strike Bisping threw and didn't seem to get hurt at all. He's tougher than I thought he was and I hope to see him continue to improve. I'm done arguing with people about his skill set and where he is among the UFC rankings. Tonight proves that he still has some work to do and I'd just be a broken record if I continue to bring up his flaws and searched for holes. I'm thinking we're probably unanimous on where he is now in MMA and have come to the realization that he still needs to improve more if he wants to be elite. Fortunately for him, he's younger than Bisping and has time to improve.
Still, I'd be lying if I said it didn't feel good to be right.
What can I say? I'm human. Haha.