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UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman has a tall order ahead of him coming up in December, defend his UFC middleweight title against Vitor Belfort. However this is nothing new for Weidman, who has been dubbed the ‘legend killer’. After knockout out Anderson Silva in 2013, Weidman went on to defend the belt against Anderson later on that year, during which he broke Anderson Silva’s leg. Still, Weidman’s wins were doubted, and the champ still had much to prove in the eyes of many. The haters began to seemingly disappear however on July 5th when The All American defended his belt against former light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida.<\/p>\n

One of Weidman’s coaches, Matt Serra, spoke with MMA Fight Corner<\/a> about Belfort’s colorful past when it comes to drug testing, and how his prize pupil will fight him regardless of whether or not he’s on TRT.<\/p>\n

His words:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019d be pretty embarrassing if he didn\u2019t,\u201d Serra said. \u201cThe whole issue with the TRT, with the tests, and his issues with that. At one point, we thought they wanted to do this in Brazil. We were like \u2018Aw man really? Why is that?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the fight that everybody wants,\u201d Serra continued. \u201cI know it\u2019s the fight Chris wants. Chris will fight him on or off the juice. I think Chris gets excited. At one point with the Brazil thing, he was like \u2018Well you know it\u2019s kind of exciting to fight the juiced up Vitor though because I\u2019ll fight the best version of him\u2019. That\u2019s his mentality. I think no matter what Vitor you put in front of him \u2013 whether he\u2019s juiced up, whether he\u2019s not \u2013 I think Chris will be too much for him and I say that with all the respect in the world. But I just think he\u2019s going to be too much for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s definitely more to come and more you haven\u2019t seen and that\u2019s what\u2019s exciting. He\u2019s a talented guy, he\u2019s got a great mindset, he\u2019s the whole package.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe always thinks that he can do better,\u201d Serra added. \u201cI think that\u2019s why he makes such a great champion. He\u2019s going to hold that belt for a while. He\u2019s got a bright future. He\u2019s going to be the king of the middleweights for a long time to come and possibly talk super fights. Obviously, the next goal is Vitor and that\u2019s what everybody is going to be concentrating on. We\u2019ve got a lot of momentum on our side with everything and just I\u2019m excited for it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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