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To say that Jorge Rivera has slightly gotten under the skin of Michael Bisping prior to their fight at UFC 127 might be like saying Charlie Sheen has had just a couple of issues recently. Rivera got Bisping so riled up he finally lashed out at the UFC 127 pre-fight press conference, and then got in Rivera’s face during their photo op staredown, cursing and throwing threats his way as well.
“I’m not coming into the cage to hug you to death. I’m coming in there to fight you. So I’m going to lay it on the line, you want to take the fight, take the fight. If not, don’t, and he did,” Rivera told MMAWeekly Radio.
“The truth is there’s nothing he’s going to do to me that’s going to shake me or rattle me. Nothing. He’s not going to say anything that’s going to shake me, and I know what I’m going to do, I’m going to fight him. Come the 27th, that’s how I’m going to do it, I’m going to fight him. If he wants to knock me out because I’m talking or whatever, so be it, that’s the business that I’m in.”
“This is how I view the sport. The sport is a game where you show your heart and you lay it on the line and the fans are going to love you for doing that. That’s why the fans love Anderson Silva, that’s why they love GSP, that’s why they love B.J. Penn, and Matt Hughes, and all these other great champions. All these guys, they lay it on the line. And you’ve got this guy running around saying he wants to fight higher competition and he wants to fight a champion. Nobody wants to see a guy running around for five rounds, and not actively engaging in a fight and trying to finish a fight.
“The object of the game is to finish the fight. I think that’s a point that he misses. When you run your mouth for so long that you don’t have anything to back it up… it comes across as arrogance and pompous and you don’t do anything.”
“... he doesn’t commit to the punches. He’s just looking to touch them and run away, touch them and run away. I’m not looking to do that. I’m looking to punch him and keep punching him till he goes down.”
"Everything he’s doing is a contradiction. We know it’s worked, the campaign on him has worked, now I need to go out there and execute the game plan and put him away.”