UFC fighter Michael Bisping has just been promoted to brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu by Brady Fink.
Michael Bisping has a rich combat sports background. He actually began training traditional Jujutsu at the age of 8. In 1994, at the age of 15, he competed as an amateur in Britain’s first “no holds barred” competition, a precursor to modern MMA, called Knock Down Sport Budo (KSBO).
At the age of 18, Bisping decided to abandon his martial arts training “to pursue real life”. Less than a year later, Bisping began training in Boxing, kickboxing and karate on the advice of Allan Clarkin, owner of Black Knights Kickboxing, who saw potential in the young fighter. Bisping enjoyed a short but successful kickboxing career, winning the North West Area title and later the Pro British light heavyweight kickboxing title. After again briefly quitting competition in 1998, Bisping returned to kickboxing to take the Pro British light heavyweight title for a second time. Soon after winning his second kickboxing title, Bisping was forced to abandon his full-time training for a “real job”. Bisping worked at factories, slaughterhouses and demolition companies; he was an upholsterer, postman, tiler, plasterer and salesman. He came back and focused on MMA.
Out of Bisping’s 24 MMA wins, 4 are by submission. He has been training in BJJ for MMA for the past years both in the UK and in the US.
Bisping has an underated ground game. He has said in the past about Vitor Belfort: “I believe I’ve got more tools than Vitor. He’s got a great submission game, but I believe I can counter that, and I’m not afraid of that. It’s funny how black belts go to white belts when you start punching them and elbowing them in the face,”
Misfits MMA Head coach and BJJ Black Belt Brady Fink gave Michael Bisping his long deserved BJJ Brown Belt on 01/10/2015. Check out their new gym in Westminster, CA off of Goldenwest and Garden Grove Blvd.
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