Anderson Silva’s (33-4) manager Ed Soares has told UOL Esporte he thinks the Chris Weidman (9-0) fight should happen. There’s only one condition – he wants it to happen in Brazil. UFC president Dana White recently revealed Silva would defend his title mid-year, delaying any potential ‘superfights’ against Georges St Pierre (23-2) or Jon Jones (18-1).
“Anderson has never refused a fight. If you ask him to face the devil, he will take it. Why did he refuse Weidman? He simply thinks he is still not someone to fight for the belt. I have nothing against Chris; I think he’s a great person, but if you ask people, no one knows who he is. They’ll have to spend a lot of money promoting this fight. Anderson has more title defenses than (Weidman) has professional fights … Anderson has told me he really wants to fight in Brazil again. Weidman himself once told me he would be interested in the fight here. So I think that’s what should happen.” (translation)
Andersons legacy is tarnished because he tries to get out of every fight the fans want to see.
And name all the fights you didn’t get to see Anderson have? He rematched Chael, fought Henderson, fought Vitor. He wanted GSP, but GSP turned down the superfight. GSP asked for a guy who just lost. If anyone is tarnishing their legacy its GSP.
“Anderson has never refused a fight” Yeah, and Jon Jones?
Same weight class? No..
I said he” tries” to get out of fights, not he refuses to fight. Dana is hard to refuse. As for jones, he just postponed what dana wanted
Anderson silva has beatin all contenders in his weight class what else does he really have to prove i dont even see how weidman will be able to touch him i mean he beat bonnar on roids in the first round lmao
Little known secret you will never understand is they are all on roids at this level