As winters go, Michael Bisping’s must be up there with the worst among athletes.
Bisping was rendered unconscious twice in the space of a month and, now, he’s been instructed to pay his former agent more than £320,000 in unpaid commissions dating from 2005 to 2011.
Manchester Evening News report that Bisping has been ordered to pay ex-agent Anthony McGann over £320,000 following an 11-day trial.
The dispute stemmed from a deal agreed between Bisping and McGann before ‘The Count’ took part in, and ultimately won, the third season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show.
The founder of Liverpool’s Wolfslair MMA Academy, the gym at which Bisping honed his craft as an up-and-coming fighter, McGann argued that he was owed commission for the early years of the middleweight’s career.
Judge Richard Salter QC also warned both Bisping and McGann of their behaviour after a member of security made it known that the former friends had become involved in an altercation in a waiting room outside the courthouse.
Judge Salter cautioned the men, neither of whom denied the scuffle.
Bisping will definitely have had better spells in his career. The 38-year-old woke up from a rear naked choke to discover that he was no longer the UFC’s middleweight champion when Georges St-Pierre came out on top in the main event of UFC 217. Bisping then accepted a short-notice bout against Kelvin Gastelum but was knocked out, suffering consecutive defeats for the first time in his career in the process.
