{"id":211498,"date":"2016-11-29T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=211498"},"modified":"2016-11-29T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T18:11:55","slug":"chris-weidman-opens-emotional-backstage-encounter-stephen-thompson-ufc-205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/chris-weidman-opens-emotional-backstage-encounter-stephen-thompson-ufc-205\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman opens up on emotional backstage encounter with Stephen Thompson at UFC 205"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At UFC 205 earlier this month, teammates Chris Weidman and Stephen &#8216;Wonderboy&#8217; Thompson both stepped into the Octagon for fights on the pay-per view portion of the historic fight card.<\/p>\n<p>Weidman fought first, stepping into the Octagon for the first time in nearly a year as he fought former Cuban Olympian Yoel Romero in a middleweight #1 contender fight. With the scorecards tied at 1 round each, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-brilliant-fight-iq-yoel-romero-chris-weidman\/\">Weidman found himself KO&#8217;d with a brutal flying knee in the third round<\/a>, which also opened up a horrific cut on the side of his head. Just two fights later, Weidman&#8217;s brother in-law, Stephen Thompson, was making his walk to the Octagon for a welterweight title fight with Tyron Woodley.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s fight with Woodley was an extremely competitive one, and wasn&#8217;t without some controversy. While many members of the MMA community scored the fight in Thompson&#8217;s favor, the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-results\/ufc-205-results-tyron-woodley-and-stephen-thompson-fight-to-a-draw-highlights\/\">ringside judges ultimately declared the fight a majority draw, with Woodley retaining his welterweight championship<\/a> due to two judges each giving Woodley a 10-8 round over Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the fight, Weidman spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2016\/11\/29\/13771092\/chris-weidman-reflects-on-brutal-yoel-romero-knockout-i-just-want-to\" target=\"_blank\">MMAFighting<\/a> to discuss the emotional backstage encounter he had with his brother in-law Stephen Thompson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My wife actually [recorded] us the first time we saw each other after the fight,&#8221; Weidman said. &#8220;I watched his whole fight. I was getting my stitches and I was able to sit there and watch the fight in the room, and the first thing I did when I saw him is I apologized to him. I&#8217;m sorry that he had to see what he saw with me. We had an emotional moment, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The video is pretty pathetic of me and him just sobbing and hugging each other for a good 30, 45 seconds. I don&#8217;t know. I felt terrible, and I&#8217;m sure it did affect him. That sucks. For him to have to watch that, that was bad. That was brutal. To see that, someone who you love get hit with a knee like that, and then you&#8217;ve got to make that walk next, there&#8217;s no question it affected him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-stephen-thompson-watched-his-brother-in-law-get-kod-just-prior-to-walking-out-for-ufc-205-title-fight\/\">Thompson, who recently appeared on BJPenn.com&#8217;s Rapid Fire<\/a>, has admitted that seeing Weidman get knocked out certainly affected him, but was not an excuse for his loss.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, fight fans will get to see Thompson and Woodley step into the Octagon together once again, as <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/video-dana-white-confirms-tyron-woodley-will-rematch-stephen-thompson-next\/\">UFC President Dana White has stated that the pair will have a rematch.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At UFC 205 earlier this month, teammates Chris Weidman and Stephen &#8216;Wonderboy&#8217; Thompson both stepped into the Octagon for fights on the pay-per view portion of the historic fight card. 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