{"id":348726,"date":"2020-05-02T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T00:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=348726"},"modified":"2020-05-02T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T00:06:42","slug":"chris-weidman-shares-theory-on-why-israel-adesanya-wont-measure-up-to-anderson-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/chris-weidman-shares-theory-on-why-israel-adesanya-wont-measure-up-to-anderson-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman shares theory on why Israel Adesanya won&#8217;t measure up to Anderson Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman believes he could find similar success against Israel Adesanya as he did when fighting Anderson Silva.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The All American&#8217; moved up to the promotions light heavyweight division for his last fight, but following a disappointing setback to Dominick <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/ufc-boston-results-dominick-reyes-kos-chris-weidman-video\/\">Reyes<\/a>, Weidman now plans or returning to the 185-pound division he once dominated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll see, but I think I\u2019m used to being there and my move to 205 [pounds] didn\u2019t go my way at all. I really couldn\u2019t take anything out of that fight. I feel great against 205 pounders, sparring them, and I know I could be right there with all those guys.&#8221; Chris Weidman told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/5\/2\/21229808\/chris-weidman-im-a-bad-matchup-for-israel-adesanya-but-ive-got-serious-work-to-do-before-that-fight\">MMAFighting<\/a>. &#8220;But it just so happened in my fight [that] I got caught early. So it was hard to take anything out of it. I\u2019m going to go back to 185, where I already know there\u2019s a lot of questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weidman (14-5 MMA) has gone just 1-4 over his past five fights at middleweight. During that stretch, &#8216;The All American&#8217; has suffered knockout losses to Luke Rockhold, Yoel Romero, Gegard Mousasi and Jacare Souza, while earning a submission win over Kelvin Gastelum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_329307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329307\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329307\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chris-Weidman-3.png\" alt=\"Chris Weidman\" width=\"696\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chris-Weidman-3.png 696w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chris-Weidman-3-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via @ufc on Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the rough stretch, Chris Weidman is confident that if he can put himself back in title contention, he has what it takes to dethrone reigning division champion Israel Adesanya.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ZY3Gwd\">\u201cI think the guy\u2019s super talented,\u201d Weidman said. \u201cHe\u2019s the new champion. He\u2019s got the star power, and when I\u2019m all said and done with my career, I really want to fight the best guys in the history of the middleweight division. I think I\u2019ve done that, and Israel\u2019s one of those guys I haven\u2019t got to fight yet. He\u2019s growing to become one of those guys. [I\u2019m] seeing if he can defend his belt a couple of times, but I\u2019d love to test myself against him.\u00a0 So whoever I\u2019ve got to fight before that to get to a fight like that is definitely motivating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to Adesanya&#8217;s meteoric success, many fans and analysts have him pegged to surpass Anderson Silva as the greatest middleweight fighter of all time.<\/p>\n<p>While Chris Weidman acknowledges that Israel Adesanya is a future legend, he does not believe that &#8216;Stylebender&#8217; will be breaking any of Silva&#8217;s middleweight records.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Go1B7I\">\u201cListen, he\u2019s got a lot of work ahead of him for sure,\u201d Weidman said. \u201cAnderson Silva, he dominated everybody for years. He didn\u2019t have wars like [Israel] has been having. He had a close fight with Anderson Silva, and this was years after I fought Anderson Silva. He had a very, very close barnburner fight with Kelvin Gastelum. The fight with Yoel Romero was obviously just terrible, but he\u2019s exciting to watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chris Weidman continued:<\/p>\n<p id=\"IjZ4ij\">\u201cHe\u2019s got a good mouthpiece on him. He\u2019s a smart kid. He\u2019s fun to listen to him talk. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to be beating Anderson Silva\u2019s record or anything like that, but I think he\u2019ll be looked at as a guy who\u2019s like a legend in the sport when it\u2019s all said and done \u2013 at least in the middleweight division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Chris Weidman that Israel Adesanya won&#8217;t surpass the middleweight accomplishments of MMA legend Anderson Silva? 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