Whilst Anderson Silva is convalescing, Chael Sonnen and Mark Muñoz have attempted to goad the UFC middleweight champion into a title throwdown.
“The Spider” sustained a shoulder injury whilst training for the Yushin Okami fight which he won via TKO at UFC 134.
The downside to the fight was that Silva exacerbated the injury, thus leaving him out of action until sometime in early 2012.
Whereas the champ has been recuperating from his minor setback, two of the division’s 185-pounders have taken it upon themselves to call out the Matrix-esque phenom.
One is a supposed friend and the other his arch enemy.
The idiom “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” comes to mind.
Silva came out firing on all cylinders.