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Michael Bisping on Yoel Romero missing weight for UFC 225: ‘Who does this guy think he is?’

You know Michael Bisping was going to have something to say about Yoel Romero missing weight for his scheduled title bout with Robert Whittaker at UFC 225.

The recently retired Bisping (30-9 MMA, 20-9 UFC) has been a rival of Romero’s (13-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) for quite some time. So when “The Solider of God” missed weight for the second straight time and made himself ineligible to win Whittaker’s (19-4 MMA, 10-2 UFC) at UFC 225, the Brit unsurprisingly had an opinion.

It just so happened Bisping had a major platform to share that opinion. The former UFC champ served as an analyst on the UFC 225 weigh-in show on FS2, and he gave his immediate reaction to the situation.

“Who does this guy think he is?” Bisping said. “He thinks the whole UFC revolves around him. … Making weight sucks. But you can’t miss weight twice on two title fights and still think you’re running the show. C’mon.”

Bisping originally ripped into Romero, who he claimed came into fight week at 207 pounds, but not long after somewhat softened his stance. Romero weighed 0.2 pounds over the 185-pound championship limit, and claims representatives for the State of Illinois Athletic Board stopped him from cutting weight, and it wasn’t his choice to do so.

“The Count” questioned whether the commission would have given him more rope in terms of trying to shed those final ounces, and thinks it probably should have.

“I’m not the first person to jump to Yoel Romero’s defense, but I will say this: It’s a tricky one,” Bisping said. “OK, he pushed himself too far to where he was within an inch of his life, that’s why the commission stepped in. But really? 0.2 pounds? That’s not a lot. Forgive me for being crude, but you can go to the bathroom and get rid of that pretty quick.”

What Bisping does agree with, though, is that a problem with weight-cutting exists in MMA. Romero is the 14th UFC fighter to miss his contracted limit so far in 2018, and to date the fighters who miss have been extremely successful in the octagon.

From Bisping’s perspective, this could be stopped with harsher penalties. And when it comes to Romero, who is the first in UFC history to miss weight for multiple title bouts, that might mean letting him go from the organization.

“If you miss weight twice, boom, you’re cut from the organization,” Bisping said. “Or you take a point. That’s a great suggestion.”

For more on UFC 225, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.

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