{"id":73729,"date":"2013-11-08T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=73729"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:37:06","slug":"vitor-belfort-i-dont-care-what-people-think-or-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/vitor-belfort-i-dont-care-what-people-think-or-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitor Belfort: &#8216;I don&#8217;t care what people think or say&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vitor-belfortPNG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73730\" title=\"vitor belfortPNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vitor-belfortPNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI deserve it (the title shot). I want the winner[of Silva vs. Weidman II]. I don\u2019t care what people think, talk or say. It doesn\u2019t take my focus away. I do want to fight for and win the UFC title, but I don\u2019t need to keep talking about it over and over. The critics are always going to be there. If you do it, they will say, \u2018he cheated.\u2019 What people don\u2019t know is that we do good work. I was the only guy to do blood work. Now Dan Henderson has to go through blood work; it\u2019s in our contract. All the fighters have to do blood work. With the blood work you can track if they use testosterone. We know some guys do it; they do things to cheat. My lab work is right there. My levels are right there, every week. I\u2019m not doing anything illegal. It\u2019s a treatment. Actually, if I go without it I will be at a disadvantage. It will be like the other guy is on something and I\u2019m not. If you have asthma you get treatment. If you have high blood pressure, you get treatment for it. This is my treatment. Everybody knows. I\u2019d love to fight in Las Vegas; I\u2019ve fought in Canada. I love fighting in America, I have lots of fans here. I have just as many fans here in America as I have in Brazil. Of course I want to fight here, I live in America.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vitor &#8216;The Phenom&#8217; Belfort is over the critics who chalk up his fighting dominance to performance enhancing testosterone replacement therapy (TRT).<\/p>\n<p>And while he prepares to step inside the cage this weekend to face off with Dan Henderson, Belfort isn&#8217;t shy to state that he expects a title shot in the UFC&#8217;s middleweight division following the outcome of Anderson Silva vs. Chris Weidman II.<\/p>\n<p><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/blog\/mma\/post\/_\/id\/19752\/belfort-i-dont-care-what-people-think\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quote via ESPN<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI deserve it (the title shot). I want the winner[of Silva vs. Weidman II]. I don\u2019t care what people think, talk or say. It doesn\u2019t take my focus away. I do want to fight for and win the UFC title, but I don\u2019t need to keep talking about it over and over. The critics are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[6481,252,6005,11,649,15,5881,16,1057],"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>Vitor Belfort: &#039;I don&#039;t care what people think or say&#039; | 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\/vitor-belfort-i-dont-care-what-people-think-or-say\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vitor Belfort: &#039;I don&#039;t care what people think or say&#039; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI deserve it (the title shot). 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