Michael Bisping responds to ‘bitter’ Chris Weidman’s comments about fight with Luke Rockhold

TORRANCE, Calif. — Chris Weidman’s barbs toward Luke Rockhold had some collateral damage in Michael Bisping.

On Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour, Weidman told Ariel Helwani that he gave Rockhold two gifts when he pulled out of UFC 199: Bisping on “a silver platter” and the “easiest title fight in the history of title fights.”

Bisping, as one might imagine, didn’t take too kindly to those words.

“Chris Weidman is a very, very bitter individual for somebody that spouts on about Jesus,” Bisping said Wednesday at UFC 199 open workouts at UFC Gym. “He just needs to take a step back and go read the Bible some more. Take heed to his own words. Don’t be bitter. He hurt himself, simple as that. It had nothing to do with me. I didn’t hurt his neck. Did I hurt his neck? What the f*ck has that got to do with me, pal?”

Two weeks ago, Weidman was forced to pull …

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