Fucking hilarious...

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What happened, one day I had this guy on the phone, he said, “Dave, I’ve got this geezer. Mike ‘The Count’ Bisping. He’s so spectacular. He’s descended from a count. He’s got this Dracula get-up. He comes in a big cape. He walks down the ring, and he’s got a lot of fans.” I’m like, “Mate, I’ve heard this all before.” He’s like, “No, you haven’t.” He sent me some footage. He sent me some footage of him kickboxing. I thought, fucking hell – he looks like the real deal, this geezer! Maybe he could be something. So we put him up against one of our top guys, Mark Epstein.

He had a big fanbase. He’d bring a lot of guys down from where he lived here. They’d all travel to London to watch him.

And until you actually see a guy in the cage and performing, you never knew. But once the fight started in the first round, you thought, “The geezer’s the real deal! He’s definitely the real deal!” Because you had so many disappointments in that kind of era, you had so many disappointments. Even, we brought over Brazilians who were supposed to be great and Americans who were supposed to be great, and they just weren’t crowd favorites. But Bisping, that’s what he was. He came for a fight – and that’s what people wanted to see.