One thing you have to respect about Stephan Bonnar is that he’s not lying to himself, or to anyone else.
Not about anything. Not even when it might be a good idea.
For instance, when he was asked on Thursday’s UFC 153 media call about the state of his physical conditioning after accepting a non-title light-heavyweight bout with middleweight champ Anderson Silva on relatively short notice, and all after he had already begun to consider himself at least semi-retired, Bonnar replied, a little hesitantly, that he was in “good enough shape to fight three rounds.”