{"id":65403,"date":"2013-08-02T06:14:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=65403"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:55:32","slug":"rashad-evans-i-wont-fight-vitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/rashad-evans-i-wont-fight-vitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashad Evans: I won&#8217;t fight Vitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rashad-evans.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45643\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rashad-evans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rashad-evans.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rashad-evans-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rashad-evans-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just moments after\u00a0Chris Weidman shocked the world by defeating Anderson Silva at UFC 162, Vitor Belfort (23-10 MMA, 12-6 UFC) began campainging for another shot at the UFC middleweight strap.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for &#8220;The Phenom&#8221;, Dana White booked an immediate rematch between the longtime middleweight kingpin and the newly crowned champ, set for this December at UFC 168.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC then tried to offer Vitor a fight with Strikeforce import Tim Kennedy, but\u00a0Belfort declined stating that the only bout he&#8217;d take at 185-pounds would be for the title.<\/p>\n<p>With that, UFC president Dana White suggested that Vitor take a fight with former light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans (18-3-1 MMA, 13-3-1 UFC).<\/p>\n<p>Rashad talked to ESPN.com on Thursday and stated that he would not fight Vitor Belfort or any other teammate for that matter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I won&#8217;t fight Vitor,&#8221;<\/em> said Evans, who trains with Belfort at Jaco Hybrid Training Center in Boca Raton, Fla. &#8220;<em>I won&#8217;t fight Thiago Silva. I won&#8217;t fight Cezar &#8220;Mutante&#8221; Ferreira. I won&#8217;t fight anybody who I train with!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I made that mistake before, and I won&#8217;t do that again. I lost a lot of relationships because I did that before.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just moments after\u00a0Chris Weidman shocked the world by defeating Anderson Silva at UFC 162, Vitor Belfort (23-10 MMA, 12-6 UFC) began campainging for another shot at the UFC middleweight strap. Unfortunately for &#8220;The Phenom&#8221;, Dana White booked an immediate rematch between the longtime middleweight kingpin and the newly crowned champ, set for this December at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[95,220,9,483,747,902,4232,5563,16,1057],"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>Rashad Evans: I won&#039;t fight Vitor | 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\/rashad-evans-i-wont-fight-vitor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rashad Evans: I won&#039;t fight Vitor | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just moments after\u00a0Chris Weidman shocked the world by defeating Anderson Silva at UFC 162, Vitor Belfort (23-10 MMA, 12-6 UFC) began campainging for another shot at the UFC middleweight strap. 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