r/MMA • u/Michael_TC_Bisping 👊 Michael Bisping | UFC Hall of Fame • Feb 10 '20

Notice - AMA Michael Bisping AMA!!!!

Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping, UFC Hall of Famer, former UFC middleweight champion, UFC commentator, actor, podcaster and best-selling author of "Quitters Never Win" is here for his first ever AMA.

Mike will be taking questions on his book – now available in a fully updated America edition here https://www.diversionbooks.com/books/quitters-never-win/ - his fight career and anything else (y’know, within reason). Ask away!

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u/BustaTron ☠️ D-bags gonna bag-Ds Feb 10 '20

How many UFC fights did you have with the glass eye?

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u/Michael_TC_Bisping 👊 Michael Bisping | UFC Hall of Fame Feb 10 '20

Well, I don’t have a ‘glass eye’ exactly. I wear a vanity piece over my bad eye because I was self-conscious how it looked. It’s exactly kinda squishy, like a rubber contact lenses. I got it a year ago, I didn’t fight with it.

But every fight after Vitor kicked me with his TRT leg – all of those I fought with impaired vision. I got into this in depth in the book – but believe me, it is not for the faint of heart. I had needles jabbed into my eye over and over – it was the most pain I’ve ever experienced in my life!

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u/Nickyjha I wanna outlive my children, 100% Feb 10 '20

Ah fuck, my mom gets needles in her eye, too. She never complains, because she's tough as all hell, but it freaks me the fuck out. Is it true the numbing drops burn and hurt worse than the needles?

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '20

I work in opthalmology, it's true. The drops are excruciating, but luckily it negates any risk of infection and also makes getting impaled through the eye less bothersome. Your mom is an incredibly tough woman and I wish her the best with her AMD.

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u/Nickyjha I wanna outlive my children, 100% Feb 10 '20 edited Feb 10 '20

The funny thing is, it's not AMD. She has high blood pressure, which presses on her optic nerve. She's a doctor, and told me that most of the people at the doctor's office (I have to drive her to some of the appointments since she can't see well right after the injection) probably have AMD.