{"id":95190,"date":"2014-04-26T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=95190"},"modified":"2014-04-26T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:09:55","slug":"sonnen-talks-tuf-brawl-and-how-being-a-victim-messes-with-his-bad-guy-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/sonnen-talks-tuf-brawl-and-how-being-a-victim-messes-with-his-bad-guy-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnen Talks TUF Brawl And How Being A Victim Messes With His Bad Guy Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“I’m on top of Wanderlei Silva without a mouthpiece, I could’ve bit him, but I didn’t,” said Sonnen. “He’s got no gloves on. He could have eye gouged me, but he didn’t. There’s rules, even in a street fight with me and Wanderlei who hate each other. There was a weight stack right next to where we were fighting, and what his coach did was one step away from picking up a weight and just crushing my head with it. There’s no way around the fact that what he did was illegal.”
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\n“Not only do I not need to be applauded, I like to be booed. I may be the only guy in sports that the louder they boo, the bigger the smile I’m going to have on my face. So you be the good guy, and I remain the heel. And I just couldn’t get him to understand. And I kept trying to explain that, Wanderlei, when you have a mob mentality which is what he has, the more people he has standing behind him and the less I have with me, the bigger his courage grows. If you approach me 6-on-1, this is going to endear me to the audience because I look like a victim. And I don’t want that. You go ahead and deal with the applause, and I’ll go ahead and walk through the crowd that’s throwing their beer and nachos on me. I like that. But he was too stupid to grasp the concept.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In a recent Q&A with FOX Sports<\/a>, UFC middleweight, Chael P. Sonnen discussed the infamous TUF Brazil brawl and how Wanderlei Silva just couldn’t get into the right role.<\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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