UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva urges challenger Chael Sonnen to stop talking and start training.
Feb 7, 2012 - Anderson Silva has some advice for his next opponent: Stop talking about me, and start training for me.
That opponent, Chael Sonnen, has hurled relentless trash talk in Silva's direction for years, and Silva has largely brushed it off. But with Silva and Sonnen set to square off this summer in Silva's native Brazil, Silva may have finally reached the point where he feels the need to talk back to Sonnen.
Silva told Ariel Helwani on Fuel TV's UFC Tonight that he believes Sonnen would be wise to keep his mouth shut and get to work on training.
"Chael talks too much," Silva said. "Chael needs to train. No more talk, train. Going to Brazil? Big problem."
Silva gave the interview in English, perhaps another sign that he's hoping to match Sonnen's talk before matching up with him inside the Octagon. But Silva also said that Sonnen isn't going to get under his skin.
"I don't care about Chael Sonnen," Silva said.
Silva and Sonnen originally fought on August 7, 2010, with Sonnen winning the first four rounds before Silva made him tap in the fifth. Their long-awaited rematch will be one of the UFC's biggest fights of 2012.
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I have a feeling..
that Anderson will destroy Chael.
by Immortal_JL on Feb 7, 2012 10:57 PM EST reply actions
Totally agree
I think The Spider underestimated Chael the first time around and, as we all know, he almost lost the bout. Add to that all the smack that Sonnen has been talking? Methinks Anderson is more that just a bit motivated. And a motivated Spider = you’re dead meat.
by djabstract on Feb 8, 2012 12:24 PM EST up reply actions
I dunno.. After seeing Sonnen/Bisping it might look as if Chael has slowed down a bit. He couldn’t do anything very effective against Bisping. I am a huge Sonnen fan but he might have even lost that fight. Chael in all reality might have slowed down from the first fight with Silva.
Silva looked great against Okami and Belfort. Typical wins for the KO king. If Sonnen can’t stifle him and goes to set and box with Anderson this time without the threat of a takedown… well it will most likely be a very short fight.
by Crossbwnz on Feb 8, 2012 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
no sh*t sherlock!
by venomzx on Feb 8, 2012 6:52 PM EST up reply actions
ruh roh . . .
I sense a disturbance in the Force . . . Sonnen is going to get SMASHED. And then Silva is going to hurt him. This will not end well, I am afraid.
by Hulka's Big Toe on Feb 7, 2012 10:58 PM EST reply actions
Interesting call yoda! :D
In all seriousness, I think you’re right. Hoping, for Sonnen’s sake, that it will be quick and relatively painless, but it could be some Hendo vs. Bisping kind of ending. This could be bad for Chael. Let’s hope not, but…could be.
Would love to see Sonnen going to welterweight afterwards.
by altairograph on Feb 8, 2012 2:51 AM EST up reply actions
Dont think so.
I think Silva is way too professional to pull a Hendo on Sonnen. Silva is going to smash Sonnen, thats for sure, but as soon as he’s down I dont see Silva going for the kill on an already out opponent. All silva will do is show him his respect.
by im.not.superman on Feb 8, 2012 6:32 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You're joking, right?
“All silva will do is show him his respect.”
Like he did to Maia and Leites? Please. Silva may seem like he’s taking the high road for Chael, but I’m not fooled.
I would love to see Chael win, but I just hope it’s a good fight. I hope they get a chance to go at it and not for it to end prematurely like the Vitor fight – while a spectacular finish it was so early that it left many questions of what could have been.
by rearnakedchickenchoke on Feb 8, 2012 1:59 PM EST up reply actions
I know.
I know how he behave in those fights. But when they´re in there its a fight. They´re not in there to throw a punch and then ask, did i hurt you? if so i didnt mean to.
What i mean is that when the fight is over Silva will be respectful and i certainly know he wouldnt try to break the face of an opponent thats already out.(Dan Henderson style)
He may have not been the most humble guy during those fights (Maia, Leites) but when it was over its over and Silva always behaves himself after the fights.
by im.not.superman on Feb 8, 2012 5:45 PM EST up reply actions
This will not be a repeat of the last fight
All the fans of trash talk and pillowfists have another thing coming friends.. Silva is going to obliterate Sonnen.
"Alistair Overeem is a Dutch kickboxer who looks like someone at Marvel comics drew a man genetically engineered to fuck your girlfriend."
Hendo/Bisping:
"He hit him so hard that even gravity got scared. Bisping hung in mid-air for a moment while gravity screamed at inertia, "Did you see that shit!?" Then, after a high five, the two universal forces quit screwing around and yanked Bisping's limp body onto the floor." - quotes are by Seanbaby
by superfknmario_ on Feb 7, 2012 11:02 PM EST reply actions
So True
An uninjured Anderson will tear Chael apart piece by piece.
by Capable Legs on Feb 8, 2012 8:55 AM EST up reply actions
It is Silva who should train very hard and stop worrying about how much Sonnen talks. Silva has been on a long layoff, and last I saw him against Sonnen, Sonnen manhandled him and walked through everything he gave Sonnen. Sonnen could have danced the Lambada on that last round and he would have been the new champ, but instead he kept on and got caught, got careless.
by BlackDog2009 on Feb 7, 2012 11:19 PM EST reply actions
Sonnen walked through everything Silva gave him? Did you forget about the triangle/armbar? Silva is the best fighter theres ever been. He’s the best in every aspect of mma. The thing I don’t get is when people talk about these wrestlers like their the best. This isn’t a wrestling match, this is mma. The way I see it Sonnen is extremely good at one thing. Silva is extremely good at everything. Just like the Aldo vs Mendes fight. People kept saying someone who can wrestle really good will be the guy that can take out Aldo. Well, it looks like there going to need to be able to do more than wrestle to take him out. The knee that Aldo KO’ed Mendes with was a thing of beauty. I really think it’s sad that people would want a guy like Sonnen to be champ. I want to see the best martial artist in the world have the belt, not the best wrestler… and that goes for every division.
by ASilvaIsThaMaster on Feb 8, 2012 12:09 AM EST up reply actions
YES
I agree with you 99%.(the 1% being the best ever part, but no need to argue that now X-D)
"Alistair Overeem is a Dutch kickboxer who looks like someone at Marvel comics drew a man genetically engineered to fuck your girlfriend."
Hendo/Bisping:
"He hit him so hard that even gravity got scared. Bisping hung in mid-air for a moment while gravity screamed at inertia, "Did you see that shit!?" Then, after a high five, the two universal forces quit screwing around and yanked Bisping's limp body onto the floor." - quotes are by Seanbaby
by superfknmario_ on Feb 8, 2012 12:12 AM EST up reply actions
Honestly I believe Jose Aldo is the best in the world right now. You just have to give Silva the credit he deserves. He has done so many things that no one else has been able to. It’s simply amazing.
by ASilvaIsThaMaster on Feb 8, 2012 12:18 AM EST up reply actions
As much as Silva is my fav fighter
I think when it’s all said and done Jose might end up being it. That TDD and Striking are ridiculous.
But really what i think will do it is his age
I’m not resting until I’m officially Anderson Silva status.- Jon "Bones" Jones
by AfroSamurai on Feb 8, 2012 4:05 AM EST up reply actions
Silva is extremely good at everything
except wrestling!! he got taken down at will by Sonnen. Take down defence has never been Silva’s strong point, the way i see it Aldo has much better TDD, even Bisping showed he’s got better TDD than Silva, so not exactly extremely good at EVERYTHING.
by changotlin on Feb 8, 2012 7:55 AM EST up reply actions
You're clueless
Even if Chael would’ve beat Ander, they would’ve stripped him of his title for cheating. He still wouldn’t be a champ right now even if he would’ve cheated his way to victory that night.
by A_Lone_Wolf on Feb 8, 2012 12:10 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
walked trough everything ????
Lol yes sonnen treated silva as a punching bag for a couple of round,s
But at the end SILVA showed sonnen that you can use all the testosterone
you want you can fight like a dog who has rabies with slobber hangin out of his mouth.
Sumtimes just sumtimes The more TECHNICAL FIGHTER WINS ..
SO hell YEAH SONNEND NEEDS TO SHUT IT AND START TRAINING ..
by breezer77 on Feb 8, 2012 9:35 AM EST up reply actions
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Chael retire win or lose.
by Diz D on Feb 7, 2012 11:25 PM EST reply actions
I see it this way
Could you fathom the cluster f*ck Dana White would have had to deal with if Chael had won the last match? Explaining his new champ having a hot test, facing criminal charges, etc. Chael would have been out of two careers and had to take a job at the local Medical Marijuana Dispensary just to earn a living.
That was destiny it was not Chael’s time because the universal life force knew it was not his time and fate intervened at the last moments possible to set it right, alas, here we are with Chael getting a second chance and having a clean slate (hopefully). The stars are aligned my friends. A Chaelstorm is coming.
by J Sinister on Feb 7, 2012 11:32 PM EST reply actions
care to place a sig bet?
"Alistair Overeem is a Dutch kickboxer who looks like someone at Marvel comics drew a man genetically engineered to fuck your girlfriend."
Hendo/Bisping:
"He hit him so hard that even gravity got scared. Bisping hung in mid-air for a moment while gravity screamed at inertia, "Did you see that shit!?" Then, after a high five, the two universal forces quit screwing around and yanked Bisping's limp body onto the floor." - quotes are by Seanbaby
by superfknmario_ on Feb 7, 2012 11:52 PM EST up reply actions
Whoa, you lost me at "universal life force."
But I came right back to agreeing with you around “Chaelstorm.”
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by McKinley B. Noble on Feb 8, 2012 12:22 AM EST up reply actions
Chaelstorm! Classic!
Dana wouldn’t have any problem at all explaining his new champ. I didn’t see any hesitation when he put the belt around Rampage’s child-bearing hips.
I’d love to see Sonnen win, but if Silva is motivated and healthy…fingers crossed.
Life's hard in barn yard.
by livepunch on Feb 8, 2012 7:18 AM EST up reply actions
Sonnen Still a Loud & Proud Juicer
Is there some sort of bizarre agreement amongst MMA journalists to NOT report the fact that former journeyman Steroid Sonnen was doped up for the first fight, and brags about the fact that he’ll continue to juice up? (Basically, all the white Americans are miraculously afflicted with “Low T” and it just so happens that that allows them to use steroids. Just, ya know, a bizarre epidemic amongst the UFC’s white American roster.)
Anderson Silva stands only a puncher’s chance against Steroid Sonnen. I’m sure he’d destroy him off the juice, but so long as the UFC allows Sonnen to pay a dealer to thrust a tube of testosterone into his butt every week, no, Silva stands little chance.
by ComicsPlus on Feb 8, 2012 12:22 AM EST reply actions
Get off of it...
I am sure Kleenex enjoys your support, but get the hell over it. He is tested before and after the fight, and if he is over, etc, he’s done. White this and white that, brother. There are frilly black homosexuals all over the place too! But so what and who cares…Gonna change the rules, stomp your feet, what? T levels can be between 1:1
-4:1 TRT or not. Let the fighters do their things and fight. Leave it to The UFC and the commissions to make sure rules are followed. Take care…by DOnofrio on Feb 8, 2012 12:45 AM EST up reply actions
Torrents Syndrome?
It’s kind of hard to extract anything logical in your jumbled mash-up of sentence fragments, but I think what you were saying was, “I know Steroid Sonnen pays dudes to shove testosterone up his butt, and I love it as much as he does!”
I don’t care about Sonnen using ‘roids anymore than I care about the impotent freaks who use Viagara. That’s their life, not mine. But it IS my business as a UFC customer who pays for a product: competition. When that product – the competitive integrity of the bouts – is defective (because one fighter has a substantial synthetic advantage), I get ripped off. ALL the customers get ripped off. It turns the UFC into the WWE. This is why Steroid Sonnen went from a middling journeyman into an unstoppable juggernaut: for all practical intents and purposes, his fights are fixed.
For you, MMA might just be about seeing a bunch of your fellow impotent, Viagara-popping Americans and screaming “USA!” when they’re fighting brown dudes. But for most MMA fans, it’s about seeing legitimate competition and tests of skill. Steroids like synthetic testosterone make it illegitimate. It’s that simple, and that’s why they’re banned in all other sports.
Here’s a good post about the TRT scandal by MMAFighting’s best writer, Ben Fowlkes.
by ComicsPlus on Feb 8, 2012 1:59 AM EST up reply actions
Hey racist
What say you about King Mo and Cyborg then, huh?
Do they get a free pass because they’re not “White Americans”?
Get out of here with that race shit…
by BMacMMA on Feb 8, 2012 2:51 AM EST up reply actions
Exactly
This knob has been on about this for the last two years.
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by BlueJay_ on Feb 9, 2012 3:46 AM EST up reply actions
Thanks for that link
Never realized he said he’ll continue to use it and MMA Journalist still refuse to go near the subject with him or when discussing him and the last fight.
I’m not resting until I’m officially Anderson Silva status.- Jon "Bones" Jones
by AfroSamurai on Feb 8, 2012 4:13 AM EST up reply actions
This here is the craziest shit ever. MMA Journalist really need to MAN UP and ask the tough questions
I’m not resting until I’m officially Anderson Silva status.- Jon "Bones" Jones
by AfroSamurai on Feb 8, 2012 4:07 AM EST up reply actions
And the UFC itself needs to MAN UP and prohibit this scam
I don’t think that it’s only about the reporters educating the fans and asking the questions – although they’re obviously refusing to do even that right now. I think that this is so obviously a scam that the UFC, if it has any regard for the competitive integrity the way that MLB does, should step in and flat-out prohibit it. For the .0001% of the population that truly has “hypogonadism” (and, no, Matt Lindland, Chael Sonnen, Dan Henderson, and all the other white Americans do NOT actually have it), then they can cross that bridge when they get to it. (Most likely, they can just put them through a rigorous diagnostic procedure – not the rubber-stamp crap from a self-selected doctor right now.) But that’s so rare it’s barely even a consideration, anyhow. Just ban the TRT scam. Now.
by ComicsPlus on Feb 8, 2012 1:37 PM EST up reply actions
I was talking about reporters manning up and asking the TRT questions :::cough Ariel chough::: but
you definitely have a point but imo they should just ban TRT all together NFL or NBA doesn’t allow it. I mean if you need it then you shouldn’t be fighting period.
I’m not resting until I’m officially Anderson Silva status.- Jon "Bones" Jones
by AfroSamurai on Feb 9, 2012 2:29 AM EST up reply actions
Chael haters beware...
Sure Chael has a checkered past, a smart mouth/smart ass approach, and whatever else…however…we’ve heard it all…He is in compliance, and the best contender for the belt. Let’s let them do what they do and enjoy the ride. Silva is saying nothing at all basically. EVERY UFC fighter needs to train. And the talking thing, lol, ok…and whatever. Let’s hope for a clean, safe, fair, and amazing battle in Brazil. This could go either way, regardless of what any of you think…Peace out to all, and to all a good fight! PS There was talk that Silva was on some sort of opiate pain med last time he fought Sonnen. (Rib injury) Does anyone know anything about that?
by DOnofrio on Feb 8, 2012 12:28 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
If he looks the way he did..
..against Bisping, he’s going to have big problems.
by bezzarguy on Feb 8, 2012 12:36 AM EST reply actions
sonnen
will once again dominate the grappling since silva likes to wait for his opponent.but then silva will submit sonnen with a tringle /armbar once again..but this time in brazil..what i learn from the other brazil cards..is dont fight brazlians in brazil
by jukeboxx9mm on Feb 8, 2012 6:38 AM EST reply actions
EAGLES will prevail !
All you turkeys supporting Anderson “my shoulder hurts” Silva mark today february the 8th as the date where you were told that CHAEL P. SONNEN WILL WIN ON JUNE !!!
Standup doesn’t do much damage when you’re on your back ! Chael is gonna grab anderson and put him on his pussy little ass , pound him for minutes and minutes until Anderson breaks AGAIN !
by rodrigo.j.melgar on Feb 8, 2012 1:08 PM EST reply actions
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by rodrigo.j.melgar on Feb 8, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
And then Anderson will
Make Chael give up and tap like a ’lil bitch, again
by A_Lone_Wolf on Feb 8, 2012 10:31 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
When Anderson is done with him
Chael will wish he’d been sentenced to prison.
— MrJM
by MrJM on Feb 8, 2012 3:59 PM EST reply actions
Sonnen
Anderson will not be able to claim injury with this one. Sonnen will finally win the title. Love his brash banter but need to calm it down below the WWC level. Looking forward to the fight.
by Betonline101.com on Feb 8, 2012 4:46 PM EST reply actions
RIP Chael Sonnen
What Silva will do with Sonnen in the cage would have a normal man arrested on the street. As soon as Chael hears “Ain’t no sunshine”, he’ll say to himself “Oh f**** what have I gotten myself into”.
by Sindher on Feb 8, 2012 7:32 PM EST reply actions
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