Right after defeating Dan Henderson at UFC 204, middleweight champion Michael Bisping went on to campaign for match-ups against fighters outside of his division for UFC 206 in December. “The Count” had been initially clamoring for a fight against Georges St-Pierre, but when that fell through, he went on to call out Nick Diaz.
Bisping is now ruled out of the fight, after he had evidently suffered a fractured orbital bone and a leg injury after facing Henderson. He had also been previously accused of avoiding a fight against number three-ranked Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza”, in which he clarified that he was merely going after the bigger payday.