Derek Brunson is increasingly desperate to get Michael Bisping's attention

Derek Brunson really wants to be the guy to usher former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping into retirement, so much so that he’s resorted to an unconventional callout method: pictures of paperwork.

Taking to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, Brunson (18-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC) again made his case to Bisping (30-9 MMA, 20-9 UFC) on the basis of their proximity in the UFC’s own internal rankings, then followed that up with what appears to be the final page of a bout agreement.

Dear @bisping,

You’re no easy fight. Obviously you’re ranked ahead of me… it only makes sense for a #6 being you and #7 being me to fight. Upside for both of us. The top half of the division is older than us both stop crying. You aren’t going anywhere, neither am I.

This isn’t the first time Brunson has made his case to Bisping based on the numbers, but maybe because that didn’t get him anywhere last time, now he’s throwing in a heavily redacted contract.

What is this supposed to establish, exactly? Is Brunson trying to suggest that he has papers in hand to fight Bisping, but is just waiting on the former champ’s signature? Because if that were the case, he might not need to redact the opponent’s name.

Or maybe this is just a visualization technique. If Brunson did have a contract to fight Bisping, it might look a little something like this.

And somehow, putting it all out there on social media is supposed to, what, make it feel more real?

Whatever Brunson hoped the effect would be, it doesn’t seem to be moving the old needle for Bisping, who, contrary to the assertions of Brunson’s tweet, actually is going somewhere. He’s retiring, or so he says, which means he may not see a middleweight coming off a loss and devoid of any major drawing power as his ideal final opponent.

Up next, maybe write out a check to yourself for $1 million and post it to Twitter waiting for UFC President Dana White to sign it? My gut says that effort would be about as successful in the end as this one.

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