Michael Bisping accuses Luke Rockhold of turning down the fight with ‘Jacare’ Souza

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Michael Bisping doesn’t think Luke Rockhold is being honest about how the new UFC 199 main event came together.

It was initially thought that Ronaldo Souza was the first choice to face Rockhold after Chris Weidman pulled out with an injury, but ‘Jacare’ couldn’t go because he needed knee surgery. Bisping was the back-up plan and he stepped in.

Bisping, though, said Thursday at the UFC 199 pre-fight press conference that he heard from a “source very close to the UFC” that Rockhold turned down the fight with ‘Jacare’ in favor of a fight with him.

“Luke says that he’s on a different level than everybody else and he’s by far the best fighter and he can destroy anybody and this, that and the other,” Bisping said. “Well, if that is the case, then it turns out he’s a liar, because the guy has a bit of a vagina inside him because he turned down Ronaldo ‘Jacare,’ whatever his name is. He turned the fight down. I didn’t turn this fight down.”

Rockhold shot back that he …

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