If you catch Anderson Silva on the right day, he can be smiling and happy and have plenty to say about his fight career, where it’s been and where it’s going.
Tuesday was not one of those days. On a conference call to promote August 7’s UFC 117 middleweight championship match against No. 1 contender Chael Sonnen, Silva was quiet and reserved, and even though you couldn’t see his face, it was easy to imagine a look of disinterest or annoyance at the questions fired his way.
Sonnen on the other hand, continued his one-man crusade to sell the event as a must-see war and Silva as a champion on the verge of collapse. In a series of alternately amusing and serious monologues, Sonnen trashed the champ’s drawing power and declared himself the superior fighter.