Sonnen told The Telegraph that from afar, he had thought the British mixed martial artist Michael Bisping was "a bit of a jerk. " I was wrong. When we met at a venue ahead of a press conference to publicise the UFC on FOX event in Chicago – and of course we weren't slated to fight each other at that point – we were in the same room together and we hit it off. He came over, we hugged, we talked and I really liked the guy. We genuinely got on. Then with eleven days to go to the Chicago event, we are facing each other. I had nothing bad to say about Michael Bisping. Nor do I now."