A potential rematch between UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and trash-talking challenger Chael Sonnen has easily become one of 2012’s most anticipated fights, and it’s the words of Sonnen that have people wanting to see this fight more than ever right now.
Sonnen spoke to Jim Rome earlier today and continued to implore his demand for a rematch with the last man to beat him.
After defeating Brian Stann at UFC 136 earlier this month, Sonnen called out the pound-for-pound king in the post-fight interview and said, “Anderson Silva, you absolutely suck.”
He continued by calling out Silva and offering a loser-leaves-town match for Super Bowl weekend, 2012.
“That offer was good when I made it, but it’s like any offer—they’ve got to expire,” said Sonnen, who lost to Silva via triangle-choke in the fifth round of their UFC 117 bout.
“I’m doing anything I can to lure him out, and yes, I would have absolutely done that,” Sonnen continued. “I’ll do a winner-takes-all. I’ll do any stipulation that he wants.”
Since defeating Sonnen, Silva has fought twice and defeated two opponents in Yushin Okami and Vitor Belfort. Sonnen helped train Okami for his fight with Silva at UFC 114, but the Japanese fighter was knocked out in the second round, leaving Sonnen no choice but to get back in action and make the rematch happen as quickly as possible.
“All he needed to do was stand up and give me a thumbs up. [If] he wanted to accept that offer, all he needed to do was nod to me. Have one of his handlers come in the back and say, ‘Anderson accepts.’ He does the exact opposite. He went to the media and said, ‘I do not want to fight that guy.’ So what can I do? Now, I’ve got to come up with a new offer.”
“He [Silva] comes out and tells Dana, ‘Hey, I want the biggest fights there are.’ Well, there is no bigger fight in this business than our rematch, and my name has never come out of his mouth once.”
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