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Anderson Silva Apologizes To UFC After Complaints

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Former longtime UFC middleweight champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva has faced some rough times inside of the Octagon over the last few years. After serving out a suspension during 2015, “The Spider” returned to action last February only to drop a closely fought decision to current champion Michael Bisping in Bisping’s home of England. Silva then stepped up on two days’ notice to take on light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier at July 9’s UFC 200, a bout he also lost by way of decision.

Despite losing to Cormier, Silva put up a valiant effort, and displayed his warrior spirit just by accepting the fight alone. Silva, however, hasn’t been happy with the way the promotion has treated him since then, recently saying that he hasn’t even received a call from the UFC. President Dana White then disputed these claims:

“Let me tell you what, there’s probably some guys that can come out and say they felt like they’ve been mistreated. Anderson Silva is not one of them. Okay? That is a guy who has been far from mistreated. Far from mistreated,” White said on an edition of “Speak For Yourself” last week.

It now appears as if the Brazilian legend has changed his tune on the situation, recently issuing an apology to the promotion:

“Definitely, I need to say sorry for everything that happened now with UFC,” Silva told TMZ. “Because, you know, Dana White is Dana White.”

At age 41, Silva has undoubtedly seen better days regarding competition, but he’s expected to return later this year although a date and an opponent has yet to be named.

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Daniel Cormier Says Rivalry With Jon Jones ‘Made Him Ugly’

The rivalry between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones has been going on for nearly two years now and the two were slated to finally rematch in the main event of July 9’s blockbuster UFC 200 from Las Vegas, Nevada. The rematch, however, never came to fruition, as “Bones” was pulled from the bout just days

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With Jones’ immediate future in the sport unclear, Cormier needs a break from the rivalry, as he claims that it has turned him into an ‘ugly’ person:

“I need a little break from him, because this rivalry has made me ugly,” Cormier said on The Jim Rome Show. “It makes me react and behave in ways that I don’t usually behave. I’m the guy that’s smiling and hanging out and having fun. I’m the guy that will sit and talk to people and try to make people feel good. That’s why when people say stuff like that, it’s because they know me on a level that’s much different than what you see when I’m around Jones. It really does make me into a different person. So I really do need a break from him.”

Jones’ run in with USADA is only the latest in a long list of troubles outside of the Octagon for the pound-for-pound great. In facts, it drives Cormier crazy to see an athlete as talented as Jones behave this way:

“It just drives me crazy. Again, this is a guy who has the world at his fingertips, and I’ve worked hard to get to where I am, and I’m sure he has too, but I try to not make mistakes to actually screw it up,” Cormier said. “A lot of times I watch professional athletes and think why are they intent on throwing this away when they have the ability to help so many people.”

In the aftermath of Jones’ fallout from UFC 200, former long-time middleweight champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva was called on to fight Cormier on extremely short notice in a bout many thought Cormier would batter Silva in. Although “DC” took home a dominant decision victory, the fans weren’t too impressed with his wrestling-heavy attack.

Cormier, however, admits that he was a bit star struck by Silva:

“All day Friday I’m telling myself I’m just going to smash him, I don’t care that its Anderson Silva, I’m just going to smash this dude. And when I looked across from him and he’s crouching, he’s in his Spider position.

“In that moment, I did kind of have that one moment where I went wow, that’s Anderson Silva,” Cormier said.

Who would you like to see Cormier defend his title against next?

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Quote: Fans Wanted To See Daniel Cormier Get Knocked Out At UFC 200

On the main card of July 9’s landmark UFC 200 event from Las Vegas, Nevada, reigning light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier took on late replacement former middleweight king Anderson Silva in a three round bout. Cormier used his decorated wrestling background to nullify Silva’s legendary striking and cruise to a unanimous decision victory. His dominant

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Cormier was relentlessly booed, and according to former fighter turned analyst Chael Sonnen, it’s because fans wanted to see the former Olympian get knocked out:

“That’s a misunderstanding,” Sonnen told MMAFighting.com. “The fans didn’t care what Daniel did. The fans wanted to see Daniel get knocked out. And they knew that was not going to happen. They had no problem with the way he fought. They just wanted him to lose. That’s all that happened there. Brock [Lesnar] had the same game plan and they were happy as could be, because they wanted Brock to win.”

“DC” was originally scheduled to defend his title against bitter rival and former champion Jon Jones, but “Bones” was pulled from the card just days prior after being notified of a potential anti-doping violation. This incident was just the latest in a long list of troubles for Jones outside of the Octagon, but the pound-for-pound great is typically praised by fans unlike Cormier.

Sonnen said that Cormier is simply a great human being which may be a turn off to fans:

“The biggest thing with DC is he wants to be liked and you’ve got good guys and you’ve got bad guys,” Sonnen said. “DC is neither. He’s a great guy. Daniel is truly in a class of his own. If you interact or you hang out around town with Daniel Cormier, he treats everybody really well. He’s a great human being. And he wants people to see that and that seems to be the turn off, in my opinion.”

Do you agree with “The American Gangster”?

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Robbie Lawler Defends Daniel Cormier’s UFC 200 Win Over Anderson Silva

Faced with fighting a legend from a smaller weight class after his arch rival Jon Jones was flagged for a USADA violation only days before their scheduled UFC 200 main event, light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier did what most expected him to do against late replacement Anderson Silva, routinely taking the dangerous ‘Spider’ down and

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Cormier was in a sort of lose-lose proposition, as the entire week’s events had certainly drained him mentally, while looking to put on an exciting fight with Silva in his area of expertise could have potentially been devastating to his standing. While the fans at T-Mobile Arena obviously weren’t pleased by the results, there’s another side of the tale that begs some understanding beyond a surface desire for an all-out war in the octagon.

Cormier’s fellow fighters understood where he was coming from and what he had to go through. Speaking during a media luncheon in Los Angeles (via MMA Fighting) yesterday (July 12, 2016) to promote his UFC 201 showdown with Tyron Woodley, welterweight champ Robbie Lawler defended the 205-pound champ by noting that standing with Silva, who rocked Cormier with a vicious body kick in the bout’s final minute, was not the best course of action:

“Daniel did what he needed to do. It wasn’t a crowd favorite-type fight, but Anderson Silva is a crafty individual. You talk about a guy who studied martial arts for the longest time, he’s a standup fighter who even at his age is very crafty, still has one-punch power, one-kick power. He did what he had to do to get the victory.”

“Ruthless” also noted that despite it not being a crowd favorite type of fight, Cormier needed to play it safe to get a paycheck after two proposed bouts with Jones had fallen through this year. At the end of the day, Lawler reminded fans they weren’t being punched and kicked:

“The fans wanted to see something different. They’re not the ones going in there getting punched and kicked. I can see why they weren’t very excited about it. But Daniel needs to put food on his family’s table as long as possible and he got the victory.”

Many have jumped all over Cormier to criticize his performance – namely Donald Cerrone, who used a homophobic slur to describe his wrestling-focused victory – but Lawler obviously brings a fresh perspective from the viewpoint of a fighter who’s been there before and knows the grind of having to put food on the table through fighting.

One of the fight game’s most entertaining fighters, Lawler knows what it takes to put on a memorable war, and he can understand why fans didn’t exactly see Cormier’s win over Silva as entertaining.

But he also understands why he did what he did from a human point of view; something that may get all too lost in the shuffle of wanting a bloody, entertaining war from a purely selfish perspective. Do you agree with Lawler?

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Donald Cerrone Criticizes Cormier’s UFC 200 Victory With Homophobic Slur

UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel “DC” Cormier had an extremely tough week leading up to last night’s (July 9, 2016) UFC 200 card from Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally scheduled to headline the landmark event opposite his bitter rival Jon Jones, Cormier was thrown into a whirlwind when Jones was notified of a potential anti-doping violation

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With no opponent, Cormier was forced to continue his weight cut in hopes that the UFC would find him a replacement. In the end, former long-time middleweight champion Anderson Silva stepped up on extremely short notice to battle “DC”.

Cormier effectively used his decorated wrestling background to nullify Silva’s elite level striking, and walked away with a decisive decision victory, although his performance wasn’t received too well by the fans. The masses appeared to be upset with Cormier’s constant takedown attempts, and the champion was constantly booed.

In the aftermath of the event, it appears as if it wasn’t only the fans who were unimpressed with the performance. In a Q&A session earlier today (July 10, 2016) with CM Punk, UFC fan favorite Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone called “DC’s” performance ‘terrible’. “Cowboy” also stirred up some controversy, however, when he used a homophobic slur to describe the performance.

Check out the transcription via Bloody Elbow below:

Cerrone: “What about the worst fight?”

CM Punk: “The worst fight?”

Cerrone: “Your boy, DC. Terrible!”

CM Punk: “What?”

Cerrone: “Terrible. How are you going to give up weight and then fight like a f*g, man?”

*applause breaks out in the audience*

CM Punk: “Wait a second. You and everybody else who clapped for that were the same people who were cheering when Brock would take Hunt down, and do the exact same thing DC did to Anderson.”

Cerrone: “That’s different. That was Brock.”

CM Punk: “It’s the same thing!”

Cerrone: “Yeah but Anderson is giving up 30 pounds, flies in, two days notice, fights [Cormier], you’re — f*cking stand and fight, motherf*cker!”

CM Punk: “Hey, I get it! Everybody’s disappointed. They want to see Anderson Silva do some ninja shit. But if I’m standing across from him, I don’t want to see him do ninja shit. I’m gonna take his ass down.”

What do you make of Cerrone’s comments?

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Poll: Was UFC 200 A Letdown?

Now that the dust has settled on last night’s (Sat., July 9, 2016) supposedly historic UFC 200 pay-per-view (PPV) from the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the MMA world is left to collectively pickup the pieces of an event that promised to be the best of all-time on paper but may have fallen painfully

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A big part of that was obviously the last-minute shuffling of the main event after interim light heavyweight champ Jon Jones was unceremoniously forced out of his heated rematch with Daniel Cormier. Middleweight legend Anderson Silva courageously stepped in to replace Jones, but on 48 hours’ notice after gall bladder surgery only two months ago, he was predictably smothered by the bigger, stronger wrestler in ‘DC,’ who didn’t earn himself any new fans by laying on Silva for the vast majority of their 15-minute bout.

Neither can be blamed for the entire card’s performance based on the circumstances, but the result was simply a microcosm of an event that was built up to unachievable levels. Yes, Brock Lesnar returned to the Octagon with a successful wrestling-based decision win over Mark Hunt in the co-main. Former heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez also returned from yet another year off to destroy Travis Browne on the main card’s opening bout, an impressive win that got lost in the mix of hype and expectation. He looked amazing. When healthy and on point, Velasquez has a pinpoint striking game that mixes speed, precision, and power like few in MMA history can claim.

But by the time Amanda Nunes absolutely dominated Miesha Tate in a strangely booked main event, a lot of the Vegas crowd had filled out onto the Strip after a night of exhausting their vocal chords booing an event they no doubt paid vast amounts of money to witness live. Maybe the hype just couldn’t be lived up to in this instance, but then again, the UFC created it as well.

What was your opinion on the supposed ‘biggest UFC ever?’ Did it even come close to living up to the massive expectation?

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