Wanderlei Silva – Photo via UFC.com
Former PRIDE champion and current coach of the first international “TUF” series, “The Ultimate Fighter Brazil”, Wanderlei ‘The Axe Murderer’ Silva was very critical of former opponent Vitor Belfort after it was announced that ‘The Phenom’ had broken his hand while training.
The two “TUF Brazil” coaches were scheduled to meet in the main event of UFC 147 next month in Brazil, but with Belfort out the UFC is searching for a new opponent for Silva.
Wanderlei took to Twitter (@wandfc) to call out Belfort saying it was an amateur move to break his hand while training, saying that the former UFC champ was too “scared” to face him in the cage.
“(Fighting me) with one hand (laughs)? We are professionals. It’s a great irresponsibility not to be careful on training, a great disrespect towards the fans. I’m really sad. I’m ready to knock you out, you have nowhere to run. This fight is happening. I guess you got scared of me. Nobody trains so hard that breaks his hand. We use the best equipments, gloves, bandages”, affirmed the coach of the blue team at TUF, who complemented.
“If you were scared, you shouldn’t have accepted it. If you really got it broken, it’s amateurism and if you didn’t, you’re scared. In both scenarios, it was irresponsible of you towards the fans. Pardon the word, but I’m pissed with your amateurism. A main event on the biggest event of the world and the guy shows up like that”.
Props to Tatame.com for the translation.