Silva and Sonnen talk Chavez Jr. boxing match: ‘I love challenge’

Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen spent the higher a part of their salad days within the UFC feuding with one another and making some huge cash off two wild fights. That concerned an entire lot of Chael doing what Chael does finest, trolling “The Spider” and going as far as to declare he’d pat Anderson’s spouse on the learn and tell her to “make me a steak, medium-rare simply how I prefer it.”

On the time of those feedback Silva wasn’t a lot of a Sonnen fan and neither was Brazil, the place favela druglords have been so offended on behalf of the nation that they ultimately supplied a large bounty for Sonnen’s decapitated head.

Luckily, Chael’s head remains to be linked to his physique and over time he and Anderson Silva have chilled out, to the purpose the place Anderson just appeared on Chael’s YouTube show to advertise his upcoming July nineteenth boxing bout in opposition to Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.

The primary huge query Sonnen had for Silva: did this deal contain the UFC or did they launch “The Spider” after his final loss to Uriah Corridor in October of 2020?

“I’m fully free,” Silva mentioned. “Once I take my final struggle in UFC, Dana speak to me and requested me to signal one thing about ‘That is my final struggle in UFC.’ I say okay, however what occurred, that is my final struggle in UFC however you’ll be able to’t maintain me right here. Once I’m completed, it’s achieved. It’s achieved. And that’s it.”

However he’s not achieved with preventing, and apparently the affords are coming in from far and wide.

“That is the primary, however completely different promoters name me and name [talent agency] ICM,” Silva mentioned. “However proper now my focus is that this struggle. However lots of people name me and ICM that symbolize me, that I’m signed proper now. However proper now my focus is one struggle, this struggle on July nineteenth and let’s see.”

First he’ll should get previous former WBC middlweight champ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who could not have lived as much as the expectations of his residence nation of Mexico however remains to be a fierce opponent with a legit 52-5 report. Chavez Jr’s most up-to-date headlines come from a struggle with Daniel Jacobs in 2019 which noticed him give up between rounds citing a damaged nostril.

It’s not the primary time he’s bowed out mid-fight as a consequence of an damage and you know the way that goes within the “No Mas” world of boxing. We think about he’ll be trying so as to add a extra memorable spotlight to his title in opposition to a excessive profile opponent like “The Spider.”

So what was Silva pondering agreeing to struggle such an skilled boxing professional?

“I’ve been boxing Brazilian for a lot of a few years and I observe skilled too, I’ve two fights {of professional} boxing,” Silva famous. “I really like problem. I do know it’s arduous as a result of Chavez Jr has been doing boxing his complete life. However that’s an excellent problem for me. I do know I don’t have to show nothing to anybody. I do that as a result of I really like sport, I really like preventing. And that is my air.

“While you do one thing together with your coronary heart, you’re profitable. Doesn’t matter in the event you win or not.”

Tribute to the Kings: Anderson Silva vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. goes down on June nineteenth via Fite.TV and in addition options an exhibition match between Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. and Hector Camacho Jr plus a struggle between Chavez Jr.’s brother Omar Chavez and Ramon Alvarez. A real household affair, and also you’ll excuse us if we’re assuming as soon as once more the MMA man is getting introduced in to be beat. We’d like to be fallacious although!