{"id":236395,"date":"2017-05-10T09:35:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=236395"},"modified":"2017-05-10T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:35:47","slug":"anderson-silva-goes-off-on-ufc-in-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/anderson-silva\/anderson-silva-goes-off-on-ufc-in-tirade\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva goes off on UFC in tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva has been making MMA headlines this week for rather interesting reasons. After snapping a losing streak <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/anderson-silva\/ufc-208-results-anderson-silva-vs-derek-brunson\/\">by defeating Derek Brunson<\/a> earlier this year, Silva recently called for the UFC to form an interim middleweight title while UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping prepares to fight former welterweight kingpin <a href=\"http:\/\/BJPENN.com\/fighter\/Georges-st-pierre\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a> in his highly anticipated return to the UFC later this year. <\/p>\n<p>Anderson Silva, like <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/gegard-mousasi-explains-bisping-vs-st-pierre-affects-division\/\">many other UFC middleweights<\/a>, feels as though the middleweight division is being help up by a potential Bisping vs. St-Pierre scrap, and as a result, would like to see the promotion form an interim middleweight title while Bisping and St-Pierre settle their feud for the undisputed title. Silva took things one step further as he stated that if the UFC didn&#8217;t create an interim belt, he would retire. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dana-White-4.png\" alt=\"Dana White\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-235405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dana-White-4.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dana-White-4-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dana-White-4-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dana-White-4-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UFC president Dana White didn&#8217;t like that too much, and suggeted that Silva retire if he was thinking about potentially doing so. <\/p>\n<p>Silva followed that up by a tirade on a live stream:<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re right, you have to go all the way,\u201d Silva said in an Instagram live stream later Tuesday (via Combate). \u201cI\u2019m sorry if this costs my leaving the UFC, retiring, being sidelined. (If) they want to mess with me, I don\u2019t care. But what I\u2019m doing is the right thing. It\u2019s the right thing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lockout against the division\u2019s athletes,\u201d Silva said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I\u2019m pissy, because I won\u2019t fight for the belt. I had the belt for 10 years. Nothing in this sport is new to me. But, for my business, there\u2019s no reason for me to take a fight with Romero that isn\u2019t for the interim belt. There\u2019s no reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not an idiot, I\u2019m not stupid. I want people to understand that, that they stop talking crap, because they don\u2019t understand what happens behind the scenes in this sport.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Anderson-Silva-4.png\" alt=\"Anderson Silva prepares for fight\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-223412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Anderson-Silva-4.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Anderson-Silva-4-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Anderson-Silva-4-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Anderson-Silva-4-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/Www.bjpenn.com\">BJPENN.com<\/a> on 5\/10\/2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva has been making MMA headlines this week for rather interesting reasons. After snapping a losing streak by defeating Derek Brunson earlier this year, Silva recently called for the UFC to form an interim middleweight title while UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping prepares to fight former welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":193423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10098],"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>Anderson Silva goes off on UFC in tirade | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva goes off on the UFC for how they are treating he and UFC middleweights with a Bisping vs. GSP fight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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