“I’m just debating whether or not I take the fight,” Bisping said (transcript via MMA Fighting). “For me, whether or not those people can see, I have a bad eye. I have a bad eye and my wife doesn’t want me to continue fighting, and my manager doesn’t want me to continue fighting. I see out of that eye but not as well as I used to, and I’m still a young man so it’s kind of the reason I may hang the gloves up.”
“My wife and manager and friends and people close to me say, ‘Mike, what do you want to do that for?” he added. “You’ve done it. You’ve had the belt.’ I’ve done it. I’ve done what I set out to achieve.”
“I kind of want to go do one last fight in England and they’re like, ‘So what? Five years from now or a year from now, people are gonna forget about all that and you can injure yourself even more.’ but you can injure yourself in any fight, whether or not you’re at 100% health or not. So that’s what we’re up to and I don’t know.”
Michael Bisping: I’m debating whether or not I should take a retirement fight
If he doesn't really want it, he should step away from the sport. Nothing left to prove. He's accomplished plenty and there's no sense further jeopardizing his health. He just got KO'd taking another quick turnaround fight. Let it go, Michael!
