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“Normally, I’m not that way in fights," said Henderson after knocking out Bisping. "I know if a guy is out and I tend to stop. I knew I knocked him out. I think that last one was just to shut him up a little bit.”
He has said since that he was only joking. Regardless, that one blow showed both why some love the UFC and why others see it as being beyond the pale. It wasn’t just a follow-up shot to a falling fighter, but an assault on an unconscious man. It has gone down as one of the most celebrated knockouts in UFC history and Henderson himself uses a silhouette image of it as his personal logo.
“It took me an hour just to figure out where I was and who I was,” Bisping says. Nine years later, it’s the humiliation that hurts. “Every time I see that logo, on his shorts, his banner,” Bisping says, “I think: ‘You bastard.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/oct/07/ufc-204-michael-bisping-dan-henderson-revenge
He has said since that he was only joking. Regardless, that one blow showed both why some love the UFC and why others see it as being beyond the pale. It wasn’t just a follow-up shot to a falling fighter, but an assault on an unconscious man. It has gone down as one of the most celebrated knockouts in UFC history and Henderson himself uses a silhouette image of it as his personal logo.
“It took me an hour just to figure out where I was and who I was,” Bisping says. Nine years later, it’s the humiliation that hurts. “Every time I see that logo, on his shorts, his banner,” Bisping says, “I think: ‘You bastard.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/oct/07/ufc-204-michael-bisping-dan-henderson-revenge