Michael Bisping

Michael Bisping (, BIS-ping; born 28 February 1979) is an English mixed martial artist and actor. He fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and is the current UFC Middleweight Champion. He is a former Cage Rage Light Heavyweight Champion, and The Ultimate Fighter 3 Light Heavyweight Tournament winner. At UFC 78, he became the first English fighter in a UFC main event and at UFC 199, he became the first English fighter to win a UFC championship. 2Early life Bisping was born on a British Military Base in Nicosia, Cyprus, and grew up in Clitheroe, Lancashire. He attended St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, Billington. His Polish paternal grandfather, Andrew (Andrzej), fled with his family from Poland to England after the German invasion in 1939. The Bisping family is of noble descent in Poland. Bisping's father Jan was in the British Army, while his mother is Irish. He began training Jujutsu at the age of eigh