{"id":113108,"date":"2014-09-21T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T23:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=113108"},"modified":"2014-09-23T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T17:32:17","slug":"chris-weidman-is-glad-jacare-thinks-he-can-beat-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/chris-weidman-is-glad-jacare-thinks-he-can-beat-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman Is Glad Jacare Thinks He Can Beat Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ronaldo-Jacare-Souza.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-111197\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ronaldo-Jacare-Souza.png\" alt=\"Ronaldo Jacare Souza\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ronaldo-Jacare-Souza.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ronaldo-Jacare-Souza-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ronaldo-Jacare-Souza-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Weidman is getting ready to fight Vitor Belfort at UFC 181, but he already has another challenger looking at getting a crack at the champion. Jacare Souza is fresh off a dominant win over Gegard Mousasi earlier this month, and is confident he can beat the current middleweight champion, Chris Weidman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/09\/video-ufc-champ-chris-weidman-glad-jacare-souza-thinks-he-can-beat-him\" target=\"_blank\">MMAJunkie<\/a> spoke with Weidman about Jacare&#8217;s confidence, but the champ didn&#8217;t seem worried:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want people to believe they can beat me, because that\u2019s going to make for a bigger fight and a tougher challenge. I really think Lyoto Machida believed he was going to beat me (at UFC 175, and that\u2019s why I think it was an exciting fight. The more guys who truly believe they\u2019re going to win and aren\u2019t mentally defeated, that\u2019s what I want. I don\u2019t want to just run over people because they don\u2019t believe in themselves. I want to dominate guys who believe in themselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before Jacare gets his crack at whoever the champion is after Weidman and Belfort fight in December, he will have to win one more fight according to UFC President Dana White..<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/evan-stoumbelis\/\" target=\"_self\">Evan Stoumbelis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Weidman is getting ready to fight Vitor Belfort at UFC 181, but he already has another challenger looking at getting a crack at the champion. Jacare Souza is fresh off a dominant win over Gegard Mousasi earlier this month, and is confident he can beat the current middleweight champion, Chris Weidman. MMAJunkie spoke with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":111197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[220,9,9383,15,1057],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chris Weidman Is Glad Jacare Thinks He Can Beat Him | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/chris-weidman-is-glad-jacare-thinks-he-can-beat-him\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chris Weidman Is Glad Jacare Thinks He Can Beat Him | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chris Weidman is getting ready to fight Vitor Belfort at UFC 181, but he already has another challenger looking at getting a crack at the champion. 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