{"id":798268,"date":"2026-07-13T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:33:09","slug":"the-ultimate-insider-behind-the-scenes-of-tuf-34-michael-bisping-makes-big-sacrifice-to-save-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798268\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Insider: Behind the scenes of TUF 34, Michael Bisping makes big sacrifice to save fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Xavier: The time when we were getting ready for our fight, she was snacking so much. She doesn\u2019t eat a lot, but she snacks like crazy, and me and Marlon [Jones] were like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s going to make weight. She\u2019s eating like crazy.\u2019 We were asking, \u2018Are you going to make weight?\u2019 She\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019ll make weight,\u2019 and I\u2019m, like, \u2018OK.\u2019 Ilimbek [Akylbek Uulu] was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s going to make weight.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">He doesn\u2019t even really talk. He\u2019s just like, \u2018She eats all the time, how she make weight? I don\u2019t understand.\u2019 \u2026 Every time somebody had some food or some snack, she would walk by and be like, \u2018Let me see it\u2019s good.\u2019 She was eating a f*ck-ton, and I was like, \u2018Oh my God, bro,\u2019 like this is so bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">She claimed she was going to make it. She didn\u2019t, obviously, but we knew, damn, yeah, that was a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xavier: The time when we were getting ready for our fight, she was snacking so much. She doesn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-798268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798268","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=798268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}