{"id":128430,"date":"2015-02-04T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T03:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=128430"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:51:26","slug":"sonnen-offers-advice-anderson-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/sonnen-offers-advice-anderson-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnen Offers His Advice To Anderson Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BHiyR6tRHmQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf he did this, I would encourage him and anybody else, much like me, just come out and say you did it. The door is still open to come out and just tell us what happened. Say, \u2018Listen, it was still in my system. I\u2019m busted. I\u2019m sorry.\u2019 Lay it out, fade to black, and roll the credits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you, I wish he wouldn\u2019t have said anything yet. He needs to put a little time between \u2013 let me talk about me, and not Anderson. I wanted to come clean. I wanted to tell everything I can, but when you\u2019re confronted as a human being with shame, when you know you\u2019re wrong, it\u2019s very difficult to fully express everything. Now I eventually got there, but I\u2019ll tell you first hand it took me a while. My first reaction was, \u2018Hey, this is my business, and I don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u2019 I came through it, and I think if Anderson puts some time in between, he might change his stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe might also be of the mind that he didn\u2019t do it. Let\u2019s let him work through that. I wasn\u2019t there. I can tell you, the lab that was involved that did this answers to one person, and that is Sen. John McCain. This is a lab funded by the United States government. If someone were to come in and say this lab got it wrong, this lab is going to defend itself vigorously. It is not worth the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnderson Silva was in the ring, and he suffered a compound fracture. His bone from the shin down, his foot, his toes, everything, was snapped in half. The only thing connecting it to his body was his skin. I know that\u2019s graphic, but it\u2019s relevant to the story. He\u2019s got an obligation to himself: health first \u2013 and sport way down the list. He has an obligation to get himself better \u2013 whatever he needs to do. Use science. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s free market or black market, he needs to repair his leg. That\u2019s OK, and we give him a pass. If he wants to come back and compete, which he decided he did, he\u2019s got to operate within the rules. For right now, it appears that he tested positive for some banned substances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he needed to help his leg, good for him, it just doesn\u2019t mean he can return to the sport. If he returned to the sport and he didn\u2019t disclose and go through channels, he\u2019s going to have some red tape, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s going to have to work through.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf he did this, I would encourage him and anybody else, much like me, just come out and say you did it. The door is still open to come out and just tell us what happened. Say, \u2018Listen, it was still in my system. I\u2019m busted. I\u2019m sorry.\u2019 Lay it out, fade to black, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":128434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681,2682],"tags":[],"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>Sonnen Offers His Advice To Anderson Silva | 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\/sonnen-offers-advice-anderson-silva\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sonnen Offers His Advice To Anderson Silva | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIf he did this, I would encourage him and anybody else, much like me, just come out and say you did it. 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