If we were scoring the war of words between Chael Sonnen and Anderson Silva, the tally at this point would likely be somewhere in the vicinity of 238-2 in favor of Sonnen.
Silva’s been quiet regarding Sonnen for much of the past two years, despite Chael’s prolific trash-talking game being squarely pointed at the middleweight champion the entire time.
Silva doesn’t really grasp the concept of building and marketing fights. Either that, or as manager Ed Soares says in the Silva-focused documentary Like Water, he understands the concept and just doesn’t care.
The Spider has started to unleash a few verbal barbs here and there. On a recent UFC on FX broadcast, Silva told interviewer Ariel Helwani that Sonnen needed to stop running his mouth and start training.
You knew Sonnen was going to respond to that. Of course:
“Why? Why is it I would do that? And by the way, Anderson, if I want your opinion I will beat it out of you.
“Dont walk around handing out free advice. Why don’t you find a sharpie marker and draw Steven Seagal’s widow peak on him. His hairline’s about as authentic as his fighting abilities…”
“I stomped you before and I will stomp you again…You can complain about your rib. I’m sure your rib did hurt. Your rib is inside of a coward.”
“Your rib is inside of a coward” might be my new favorite Sonnen saying. At the very least, it’s up there with the greatest Sonnen-isms of the past two years.
This fight can’t come soon enough.
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