(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) Twenty-two months ago, UFC middleweight Michael Bisping was backstage at Sao Paulo’s Ibirapuera Gymnasium with UFC Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta and gearing up for a fight with Vitor Belfort. For the first time in Bisping’s lengthy UFC career, he knew exactly what was on the line. “Lorenzo came into my dressing room and said, ‘You win this, and we want you to call out Anderson Silva on the mic,’” Bisping (25-6 MMA, 15-6 UFC) told USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie. Talk about pressure. At that point, Bisping had been in pursuit of a UFC title for seven years and 17 fights, a very long run with no promise of gold. He’d lost an opportunity one year earlier with a narrow defeat to Chael Sonnen
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