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'White belt' Stann wants payback against Bisping

ESPN staff
February 24, 2012
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Brian Stann has been angered by comments made by Michael Bisping about his jiu-jitsu skills, and he wants to put the record straight with the Brit by sharing the same Octagon.

Stann and Bisping are two of the UFC's top middleweights and, after the Brit's recent loss to Chael Sonnen, they represent a potential match-up in the near future.

Unlike many of his countrymen, Stann admits he does not have an opinion on Bisping as a person because he does not know him. However, he does have his views on what Bisping recently said about his ground skills, which were belittled by the Brit as a way of lowering the hype surrounding Sonnen's wrestling.

Now Stann wants to have a very public say against Bisping, insisting he would try to knock him out if the UFC made the fight.

"I don't know Michael personally so I think sometimes he gets a bum rap and I have learned not to judge people off the media," Stann told EsNewsReporting.com.

"[But] after my last fight he had a few comments about my technique and who I was as a fighter that I thought were a little off. He called me a white belt and said I was exposed so I would love to see him just put his money where his mouth is so we can fight and we can solve that.

"He may be a great guy, I don't know, maybe he is, but I would just like to compete against him since he made those comments. "I wouldn't try to do anything but walk straight through him with a right hand."

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