{"id":288832,"date":"2010-02-07T05:15:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T10:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-218075:1"},"modified":"2010-02-07T05:15:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T10:15:38","slug":"sonnen-hopes-for-a-silva-win-to-take-easy-path-to-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/288832","title":{"rendered":"Sonnen hopes for a Silva win to take ‘easy’ path to the title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victory in hand at UFC 109, Chael Sonnen wasn’t about to miss an opportunity to fan the early flames before his UFC middleweight title shot. Dana White was asked if Sonnen would indeed be getting a fight against Anderson Silva before the moved out of the division to 205 pounds. White said that would happen and Sonnen, a good wrestler and takedown specialist, would be an interesting matchup for Silva. Sonnen was stoked. <\/p>\n

"I hope Anderson wins because I think Vitor [Belfort] is a lot tougher fighter. If I had to choose the low road and take the easier opponent in getting to the championship."<\/p>\n

Sonnen said he thinks Belfort is the better fighter stating that he’s never really lost a fight on the feet. This was a continuation of what Sonnen said during the prefight about Silva<\/a> and his No. 1 pound-for-pound ranking by many.<\/p>\n

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"That guy’s no more the top fighter out there than Bigfoot is roaming the woods," Sonnen told MMAWeekly Radio<\/a>.
\n"That is an absolute myth, and all these guys can buy into it, but there’s a
\nyoung man out in Portland, Ore., that is not signing up on that bandwagon…If
\nAnderson ever signed to fight me, which is highly unlikely, he’ll be getting a
\nverbal beating like you’ve never seen."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sonnen beat Nate Marquardt to steal away a title shot that was guaranteed by White during Thursday’s UFC 109 press conference. Silva and Belfort meet in early April at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victory in hand at UFC 109, Chael Sonnen wasn’t about to miss an opportunity to fan the early flames before his UFC middleweight title shot. Dana White was asked if Sonnen would indeed be getting a fight against Anderson Silva before the moved out of the division to 205 pounds. White said that would happen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}