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Anderson Silva‘s manager, Ed Soares, appeared on “The MMA Hour” with Ariel Helwani earlier today to discuss the aftermath of Silva’s successful title defense at UFC 117. While he stopped short of arguing against an immediate rematch for Chael Sonnen, he didn’t seem terribly enthusiastic about the idea either.
“At the end of the day, whatever the UFC wants, we’ll do. No problem. There’s a part of me that thinks that it would make a lot of sense to do a rematch. I don’t know where [the UFC’s] head’s at, and what they want to do. But on the other hand I feel like, you know what? He had his opportunity.”
Soares suggested that because Sonnen used his wrestling skills to dominate the vast majority of the fight and yet still lost, that could be seen as a reason not to give him another crack at the champion.