{"id":328709,"date":"2019-10-18T00:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=328709"},"modified":"2019-10-18T00:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:37:56","slug":"chris-weidman-failed-drug-tests-diminish-jones-and-silvas-whole-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chris-weidman-failed-drug-tests-diminish-jones-and-silvas-whole-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman: Failed drug tests diminish Jones and Silva&#8217;s whole careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson Silva and Jon Jones are regarded as two of the greatest fighters of all time. Regrettably, both fighters have also failed drug tests, which has led some members of the MMA community to question their legacies. Former UFC middleweight Chris Weidman is one of those people.<\/p>\n<p>Weidman, who hopes to earn a fight with Jones in the future, and has defeated Silva twice in the past, discussed these two legends ahead of his UFC Boston fight with Dominick Reyes. This fight with Reyes will mark Weidman&#8217;s light heavyweight debut.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Weidman: Jon Jones and Anderson Silva Marred Their Careers by Failing Drug Tests\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/44rPa8I4EtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"61yyzK\">\u201cIf you look at his record and who he\u2019s beat and how he\u2019s done it, yeah, he\u2019s the G.O.A.T.,\u201d Weidman said of Jones (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/10\/17\/20919298\/chris-weidman-just-slapped-jon-jones-anderson-silva-with-ped-asterisks-you-have-to-say-that-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>). \u201cBut then you put the drug-testing stuff out there &#8230; at the end of the day he\u2019s failed multiple drug tests. I think any time you do that, it puts asterisks on your whole career. You have to say that.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3NSZNQ\">\u201cIt\u2019s the same thing with Anderson Silva, he\u2019s failed drug tests too, for performance enhancers,\u201d Weidman continued. \u201cI think you have to put a question on the rest of their careers, just like baseball, but this is a way more devastating sport. We\u2019re not just hitting balls over a fence, we\u2019re trying to take each other out. Any time a guy fails a drug test, that\u2019s a serious thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Weidman will enter his light heavyweight debut with just one win in his last\u00a0 five fights. That being said, he&#8217;s optimistic a victory could earn him a fight with Jones.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Weidman&#8217;s comments about Jones and Silva?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 10\/18\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson Silva and Jon Jones are regarded as two of the greatest fighters of all time. Regrettably, both fighters have also failed drug tests, which has led some members of the MMA community to question their legacies. Former UFC middleweight Chris Weidman is one of those people. Weidman, who hopes to earn a fight with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":316139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10098,10095,10091,39610],"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>Chris Weidman: Failed drug tests diminish Jones and Silva&#039;s whole careers | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman explains why Jon Jones and Anderson Silva are ineligible in MMA&#039;s Greatest of All Time debate.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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