Following his bizarre defense for failed drug tests at a Nevada Athletic Commission hearing earlier this month, Anderson Silva is now hearing feedback from the man who started his downward spiral, current UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman.
Weidman appeared on “The MMA Hour” with Ariel Helwani recently and spoke about the Anderson Silva situation.
“I watched like a little bit of it and I saw some people (talk about it), so I don’t know all of the facts,” Weidman said on the MMAFighting.com program. “I don’t want to just starting talking without knowing all of the facts, but I saw some people said that he changed his story like three times. I saw Bas Rutten said that. And my thing is just, everyone is a screw-up. I tweeted this out. But everybody messes up, so people understand that. But people don’t like liars.
“So if you mess up, man, just be honest. People respect that and understand it because everyone messes up. People appreciate honesty. And if you’re changing your story three different times, that doesn’t sound good. Just fess up.”
Weidman noted that “The Spider” was lucky to walk away from that whole situation with only a one year suspension. Regardless, Silva’s case is just an example of a trend that has developed with Weidman’s previous opponents.
“I mean, you could start even before this,” Weidman said. “I feel like everybody who I fight, they’re doing so good, everyone thinks they’re going to beat me. Then after I beat them, they just don’t look too good anymore. You can start with Mark Munoz, I think he was on a three or four fight win streak, he was going to fight for the title, people thought he had a chance at beating Anderson Silva. And then I beat him and he went on a pretty crazy losing streak and then he sucked in people’s eyes.
“Then obviously the Anderson Silva fights, people have a million excuses afterwards. But you watch him against Stephan Bonnar the fight before, he’s unbeatable. Obviously he was putting his hands down in those fights, and he did that same thing to me except I stuck to what I was planning on doing. I stayed on course and took him out. Since then, he hasn’t looked so good. And then, obviously, Lyoto Machida. Poor Lyoto, he’s going through a tough patch. And Vitor, we’ll see what happens with him. But there seems to always be, no matter what, it’s just excuses, excuses.”
Weidman returns to the Octagon to defend his UFC Middleweight title against Luke Rockhold in the co-main event of UFC 194 on Saturday, December 12, 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
