{"id":604085,"date":"2026-04-13T12:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:47:14","slug":"michael-bisping-not-pulling-a-ronda-rousey-99-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604085\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping Not Pulling A Ronda Rousey, ‘99% Retired’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Bisping
\n I’m 99% Retired
\n … Only One Thing Gets Me Back In The Octagon<\/p>\n

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\n April 13, 2026
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TMZSports.com<\/p>\n

MMA is in its comeback era … but you can cross Michael Bisping<\/a> off the list of fighters making huge returns in 2026 … he tells TMZ Sports, while he can still whoop a ton of ass, he’s staying retired.<\/p>\n

That is, unless several Brinks trunks back into his driveway.<\/p>\n

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We caught up with The Count at LAX this week … and asked with big names like Ronda Rousey<\/a> and Gina Carano<\/a> stepping back in the cage, could he be following suit??<\/p>\n

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Let’s just say the door is almost entirely shut … but it’s getting jammed.<\/p>\n

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“I mean, there’s always a bag big enough [to get me to unretire], but probably 99% I’m done.”<\/p>\n

Bisping pointed to the pain and injuries as a big factor in his decision to stay sidelined … but yeah, money talks.<\/p>\n

The 47-year-old former middleweight champ (30-9) has experience with big comebacks — as an opponent — he fought Georges St-Pierre<\/a> after a four-year break in 2017 and lost via rear-naked choke.<\/p>\n

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But it’s safe to say Bisping’s satisfied with how his career played out … and he’s totally content with his commentary and acting gigs.<\/p>\n

We also talked to MB about the UFC Freedom 250 card … and while some folks complained about a lack of star power, he explained why it’s a can’t-miss event for several reasons … adding Dana White<\/a>‘s org. has some tricks up its sleeve for the White House extravaganza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping I’m 99% Retired … Only One Thing Gets Me Back In The Octagon Published April 13,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,44,85,635,26898],"class_list":{"0":"post-604085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-news","15":"tag-tmz-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}