diff --git a/bugzilla/base.py b/bugzilla/base.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/bugzilla/base.py
+++ b/bugzilla/base.py
@@ -256,10 +256,6 @@ class RequestsTransport(Transport):
         # xmlrpclib fails to escape \r
         request_body = request_body.replace(b'\r', b'&#xd;')
 
-        # Needed for python-requests < 2.0 with python3, otherwise we get
-        # Content-Type error later for the POST request
-        request_body = request_body.decode('utf-8')
-
         return self._request_helper(url, request_body)
Remove workaround for requests < <I> on python 3

- this workaround caused systems with ndg-httpsclient installed to
  error out when requests is used
- requests versions <I> to <I> do not work due to unrelated issues
  and hence no point carrying this workaround
- requests version <I> and earlier works without this workaround