Michael Bisping has heard enough.

Boxing promoter and Matchroom Sport chairman Eddie Hearn has spent the past few weeks going after Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) over the promotion’s pay structure, specifically when it comes to his newest combat sports client, UFC Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall.

Hearn recently claimed he “nearly fell off the f—king chair” when he saw what Aspinall was being paid, and he has made it very clear that he believes the UFC Heavyweight champion deserves much more money for a massive rematch against Ciryl Gane.

That led to a war of words with Bisping.

Earlier this month, the former UFC Middleweight champion-turned broadcaster questioned why Aspinall had taken so long to recover from the nasty eye injury he suffered against Gane last October, saying “there’s something weird going on.”

During an appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show last week, Hearn accused Bisping of being too close to UFC to speak honestly about fighter pay.

“These are people that are on the payroll,” Hearn said. “These are people who have been suppressed themselves, and these are people who don’t have any backbone about them. Michael Bisping should be ashamed of what is being proposed to Tom Aspinall to be in a fight like Ciryl Gane with that amount of money that is in the pot. He is a fighter. He should stand up for what’s right for fighters.

“So what are you saying, Bisping? ‘Do as you’re told, shut up, take your money. That’s all you’re worth?’”

Hearn then challenged Bisping to debate him.

“There’s $60 million in the pot,” Hearn said. “Be quiet? You’re getting three percent of the pot. You’re the fighter. You’re putting your health on the line, you’re the talent, you’re the reason this organization is what it is, and Bisping should be ashamed of himself for that.

“I keep saying to Bisping, ‘Sit down with me, live, and we’ll have a debate about it,’ and he’ll never do it because he knows he can’t say certain things.”

Well, Bisping has now responded.

And while he is not interested in doing an online spectacle, he said he is more than willing to speak with Hearn face-to-face.

“He wants to have a debate? I’m not having a debate online, but I’m very happy, next time I’m in London, to sit down face-to-face, man-to-man, and have a conversation like that,” Bisping said on his podcast. “OK, Eddie? Let’s see if he keeps the same energy.

“Eddie Hearn was talking s—t about me and about Felder too, really, but he only named me,” Bisping continued. “He said he wants a debate. He said, ‘I should be ashamed because I don’t want Tom Aspinall to get paid.’”

Bisping then pushed back hard on the idea that he does not support fighters getting paid.

“Why should I be ashamed? I have no idea the money that Tom is getting paid,” Bisping said. “I’m not a part of that. All I ever said, and I think anyone with half an ounce of intelligence can see it, is that Eddie Hearn is muddying the waters with something between him and Dana White and his perceived war and beef that he has with Dana. That’s all I said.

“I never mentioned a goddamn word about his compensation,” Bisping continued. “I hope Tom Aspinall gets paid s—tloads. I hope you can go out there and get him a contract for $30 million per fight. It’s no skin off my nose. That’s what I want for all fighters. What the f—k are you talking about, Eddie?”

According to Bisping, his original point had nothing to do with Aspinall’s paycheck. It was about the timing of Hearn’s involvement and the public uncertainty surrounding Aspinall’s return.

“I just said it’s a bit weird that he’s not fighting, and Eddie Hearn is now managing him,” Bisping said. “We all know that.”

Bisping then closed by calling Hearn’s criticism nonsense.

“It’s absolute horse s—t what Eddie Hearn is saying,” Bisping said. “And he wants to have a debate? Eddie, all you little s—ts out there, I don’t want you to get it twisted: I care about fighters. We care deeply about this sport, and this is why we are commentators. There’s nothing wrong with that.”

For now, Aspinall has been cleared to return to sparring and is targeting a return to the Octagon later this year, with the Gane rematch still sitting as the obvious fight.

But the biggest fight around Aspinall right now might not be inside the cage.

It might be the increasingly messy one between Hearn, White and everyone caught in the middle.