Michael Bisping has revealed he was 'malnourished' going into his first fight with Dan Henderson.

The British UFC legend was on the receiving end of a devastating knockout defeat courtesy of a trademark 'H-Bomb' in 2009.

It marked the first time that Bisping had been knocked out in his entire professional MMA career.

To make matters worse, it happened to take place on arguably the biggest UFC event of all time, UFC 100.

Now, some thirteen years later, Bisping has taken some time to reflect on his harrowing defeat.

Bisping told MMA Junkie: "I mean, getting knocked out unconscious like that and the whole world laughing at you for a long time, well you can take it two ways, can't you?

"You can either be defeated and feel sorry for yourself and all the rest of it or you can learn from it, simple as that, and that's what I did.

"That fight there - let's remember Dan Henderson was on testosterone replacement therapy so shame on him. He still went on to have a long career after they outlawed that which is very interesting isn't it? I always had a tough stance against people that take steroids and I still do so you get no passes from me unfortunately.

"They always say you learn from your losses not your wins. If you're winning all the time there's a potential - not always - that you'll develop bad habits and things like that. It's only when you go out there and you lose a fight like against Rashad Evans I figured out I was competing in the wrong weight class.

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Dan Henderson knocked out Michael Bisping in round two

"Against Dan Henderson, I got knocked out. I was coming in, I was over-training, I was malnourished, I was underweight. I wasn't cutting weight, again, I cut like one or two pounds on the day just with a sauna suit on going for a walk.

"So there was still a lot of things going wrong, but I was still young in my career, still learning on the job, still just doing the best I could do.

"You can't let things like that define you and I didn't do that, but fair play to him, it's a part of history.

"People at the time always used to bring that up but I just used that as motivation and just motivated me more to try and achieve my goals and ultimately I did do that."

The Count also credits his trainer Jason Parrilo for transforming him not only as a fighter but also as a person as well.

Bisping added: "When I met him, he was a tremendous coach of course, worked hard on my boxing and my all-round game, but it was more the mental side that he really helped me with.

"You know, he said it best, in one interview he said when he discovered me he could tell that he had a real fighter on his hands but someone that didn't really have any direction, someone who had just got to this point based on heart and will and determination.

"So when I worked with Jason, it was all about slowing down my mind, because my mind was always in overdrive.

"And that doesn't mean slowing what the body's doing but slowing down the mind and how it's thinking but then also calming down my emotions because my emotions were never in check and I always used to let them get the better of me.

"I used to try and wind myself up and try and get angry because I used to think if I fight like that I'm a force to deal with.

"But the reality is that when you're in there with the world's best martial artists, when you're fighting guys like Anderson Silva, you can't be fighting on emotion.

"You can't be making choices through emotion and anger, you need to be cool, calm and collected, you need to be in the moment.

"Being angry only clouds your emotions and your judgement and regardless of what you do, if you're angry or you're in a frantic state of mind you're never the best version of yourself, and certainly when you're in an Octagon fighting the best people of the world."

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