UFC 117 preview: Time for Sonnen to walk the walk against champ Silva

Thursday’s UFC 117 pre-event press conference was the second-to-last
time Chael Sonnen got to throw stones at Anderson Silva before the champ
has a legal right to punch him in the face.

Three months after he talked himself into the biggest fight of h…

Thursday’s UFC 117 pre-event press conference was the second-to-last
time Chael Sonnen got to throw stones at Anderson Silva before the champ
has a legal right to punch him in the face.

Three months after he talked himself into the biggest fight of his life
with an unparalleled trash-talk campaign, Sonnen took the UFC podium to
finish off three months’ worth of slander.

As MMAjunkie.com’s Steven Marrocco explains in our official event preview, Silva, who’s mostly taken the verbal beatdown Sonnen promised, finally
let the audience know he is counting down the days until Saturday, when
he can throw that punch at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.