“Anderson just feels that he doesn’t deserve it yet. He doesn’t deserve it yet. … A lot of people are interested in the fight. It’s a big fight. Anderson’s not ducking him. Anderson, right now, is focused on recouping his shoulder, and basically he’s going through physical therapy on that just to get that back 100 percent… But you know what? Whoever Dana [White] puts in front of us, for the most part, we’re always going to take the fight. [Anderson has] never dodged any fights. It’s really not up to us to determine. … I’m not saying that’s who we want or who we don’t want. People ask my opinion, and I see what Anderson’s saying. He’s fought him once. He had his opportunity, but hey, if Dana wants to put the fight on again, we’ll cross that bridge when it comes… There’s a lot of great opportunities, and I do think the Chael fight could potentially sell. It could be a big seller. I think it could be a huge pay-per-view. So I see all angles of it, but I’m just expressing what Anderson has talked to me about. That’s how he feels… Let someone try that hasn’t fought for the belt yet. Why do we have to keep repeating these fighters? We fought Rich Franklin twice. We’ll probably end up having to fight Chael twice. We’re going to end up fighting probably Dan Henderson twice. It’s just like, it would be nice to see some new faces in there getting a crack at it… he has four fights on his contract and right now he doesn’t have any interest to renew. He just wants to take one fight at a time, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it ended up being only four fights.”
Brazilian manager extraordinaire, Ed Soares, tells sherdog.com that Anderson Silva does not think Chael Sonnen is the rightful number one contender.
However, he does state that they will do what the UFC asks of them, clarifying that they are not ducking Chael, nor do they fear him, it’s just that with a limited amount of fights left, they would like to add some new names to the hit list of Anderson.
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what the #$$#% that is purely hearsay!
anderson nuthuggers hahaa funny term.. i would call the phael fans phael nuthuggers but your boy doesnt have any.. atleast thats what HE told the CSAC regarding his TRT incident! “its a condition ive had since i was a child” – phael suckon
what a loser
Anderson Silva and his fans disgust me
lmao sonnen and his new found fans disgust the world.
It’s true.. too many fighters get rematches, but I’d like to see Chael get one of those 4 fights.
I wonder if chael can win without steroids
He beat the hell out of Stann without it!
Even Sore-ass is thinking about it bc we know andersonnen is ducking n dodge Chael! “Anderson just feels that he doesn’t deserve it yet. He doesn’t deserve it yet. … A lot of people are interested in the fight. It’s a big fight. Anderson’s not ducking him.. Yeah he is period! Dana straighten this shit out and make it happen!
Anderson can do whatever he wants. He’s the man.
Wrong! Dana is the man..
Wow it sounds like some of You guys didn;t pay much attention to that fight sonnen beat his ass the whole fight and then the dumb ref calls that a tap out watch that supposed tap out he dropped his hand once and the ref said that he tapped ou ok I’ve watched hundreds of fights and when you tap it’s two quick taps which Chael never did so he got robbed of that fight even Sonnen looked up and asked the ref what he was doing calling the fight. The reason Annderson’s camp doesn’t want the fight is because they know that he won’t win this fight and what they want to do is let him leave the ufc unbeaten by taking new fighters instead of letting him fight Henderson or Sonnen cause he knows that either one of those boys can bring the spiders streak to an end.
Exactly Jason over 300 strikes to the head(see fight-metric) not too many fighters can say they have been hit that many times, or that hard Sonnen whipped his ass FOR 22 MINUTES STRAIGHT Nothings going to change in the next fight Anderson Silva has no TDD at all! zero. that camp is running scared!!!!
And in this corner Anderson “The Foyd Mayweather of MMA” Silva
The thing is there is no one who will be ready to fight Silva who deserves it. Hendo is fighting Rua and Munoz is fighting Leben(Munoz will deserve it if he wins) and you can not deny it would be a HUGE sell Silva Vs Sonnen 2. I mean shit i would but it lol I am a Sonnen fan but i admit he needs to respect BJJ more and you can tell he has he has a coach for it now and actually finished a fight by sub. I think they will both have learned from the first fight and i would love to see it!