Michael Bisping, former UFC middleweight champion and current commentator and analyst, compared the accomplishments of Dustin Puryear and Islam Makhachev to each other.
"If you look at the accomplishments of Makhachev and Porier, Dustin just destroys him. It may seem that I don't respect Islam's merits - I don't. But who has he fought? There was Bobby Green, Charles Oliveira for the belt. Then there was Alexander Volkanovski twice. That's it. And Puryear? He's got a crazy resume. Several fights against Holloway, Eddie Alvarez, Justin Gaethje, Anthony Pettis, Conor McGregor three times, Dan Hooker, Oliveira, Michael Chandler, Gaethje again, Benoit St. Denis.... Puryear has experience on his side, he's fought bigger opponents...," Bisping stated on the Believe You Me podcast.
