Current middleweight No.1 contender Yoel Romero has hinted that a title fight with Michael Bisping could be coming his way as soon as January of next year.
“If the rumors are true, I’ll be hosting a retirement party on 1/21 @bisping #ynuevo,” Romero wrote on Twitter yesterday.
If so, that would place the middleweight title showdown at UFC 208, which is already scheduled to take place at the Toyota Center in Anaheim, California on that date.
Bisping had previously indicated that he had been targeting the event as a potential landing spot for his next title defense, after successfully defending the belt in a rematch with his old rival Dan Henderson at UFC 204 last month.
“I might have another big movie role that starts filming end of January,” Bisping told MMAjunkie a couple of weeks ago. “Sometime in January would be nice. So I can get a fight, then do the movie, if the movie comes. It’s not guaranteed yet.”
However, a week later on his own radio show on Sirius XM, Bisping seemed to be keen to push the fight back until sometime in the Spring as he looks to heal up from a fractured orbital bone and “injections in my knee.”
“It’s looking like me and Yoel sometime in the spring,” Bisping had told his listeners.
Bisping has so far stayed quiet regarding Romero’s claim that the fight will no go down at UFC 208 after all.
