UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman says he’s nervous that his scheduled opponent for UFC 184 in Los Angeles, Vitor Belfort, won’t make it to the Octagon on February 28th for one reason or another.
After UFC’s “The Time Is Now” press conference, which you can watch in full here, Weidman spoke to members of the MMA media and elaborated on his concerns regarding the Belfort bout.
“I’m worried about whether he’s going to get drug tested, then when I found out he did, I’m crapping my pants the past two weeks, hoping he’s still fighting me,” said Weidman. “That’s the guy I want to fight. That’s the fight we’ve been talking about for a year now. That’s the fight I want. I’ll be disgusted if something happens.”
Weidman continued, “When it was first lined up, I had a feeling it wasn’t going to happen. I had a feeling something bad would happen. It was around the time of the whole TRT thing. I never really got too excited about the fight. Then after the [Lyoto] Machida fight, I started thinking about him again.”
The UFC 185-pound champion was also careful not to accuse Belfort of anything, but did allude to the fact that there’s been some fishy elements surrounding many of Belfort’s recent success.
“I don’t want to take everything away he’s ever accomplished,” Weidman said. “But if you look at him in some of his fights, it’s kind of crazy, what human being looks like that naturally? Go into your own logic and figure that out on your own. But I’m not going to be the guy who victimizes him and says he’s juicing, because I don’t really know, I wasn’t there with him getting tested or watching him getting injected. However, I think in the last couple fights where he got caught, and why was he in Brazil fighting, bigger than ever, there was some weird stuff going on in those three knockouts he had.”
Weidman vs. Belfort is scheduled to headline UFC 184, which takes place on February 28, 2015 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
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