Former UFC champion Michael Bisping has claimed that he was an intended target of a convicted rapist and arsonist who terrorised northern England more than two decades ago.
The 46-year-old has previously spoken of his harrowing encounter with a masked hammer-wielding intruder who tried to kill him when he was just 17-year-old.
The 1996 incident reportedly came during a 13-year period in which a string of unsolved murders plagued the region, with each case involving forced entry, petrol-soaked crime scenes and the use of a hammer.
Investigators have been unable to identify the killer but the confession of a man currently serving a life sentence for rape and arson has brought the horrific incidents back into light and attracted the attention of the former UFC star.
The convict is the subject of a prison interview titled ‘Face-to-Face with a Monster: My Exclusive Prison Interview with the Man Claiming to Be Northern England’s Elusive Hammer Killer’. And he claims that Bisping was his next target.
Replying to a post on X that remarked on the extraordinary development, Bisping said: ‘Where you see this? This did happen to me.’
Former UFC champion Michael Bisping has claimed that he was the target of a serial killer who terrorised northern England more than two decades ago
In 2021, Bisping revealed that in his younger years he had survived an attempt on his life from a man who had entered his apartment one summer’s night in late 1990s
In 2021, Bisping revealed that in his younger years he had survived an attempt on his life from a man who had entered his apartment one summer’s night in late 1990s.
Though, in his recollection of the event, he said he felt he knew the identity of the attacker, who he was able to fight off and escape from.
‘Who the f*** was this? In a split-second my mind raced over anyone — everyone — it could possibly be. It returned one name. The name of a thirty-something lout who I’d had several run-ins with,’ Bisping said on his Youtube channel.