Last Month Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza crushed Chris Weidman and said he would wait for a title shot. A week later, UFC president Dana White announced that Anderson Silva would get a title shot with a win over Israel Adesanya at UFC 234 on February 9. During a recent live chat with PVT, Jacare was not impressed, particularly because Silva entered the Weidman fight coming off a year suspension for an anti-doping violation.
You see s***S like that – A guy jumping the fence to beat another one, and other S***s, and you… I think I’ll start doping,” said Jacare as transcribed by Guilherme Cruz for MMA Fighting. “I’ll start doing a bunch of s***, call everyone names. Maybe I’ll fight for the belt. But my conception is this, my principles and values are unnegotiable. If I deserve it or not, if they will give me (a title shot) or not, I won’t change. That’s the way I am and that’s my point of view.
When Chris and I were going to fight, we respected each other. Everybody talked about our respect and everybody talked about our fight. What we do outside the Octagon, has nothing to do with what we do inside the Octagon. Inside the Octagon, Chris and I fought hard, we put our hearts in there to win, and that’s what people want to see. It’s not someone coming from doping, who is outside the ranking, who is famous because he’s one of the best in the world, to jump the line. The reality is everybody is seeing that and thinking it’s crap. And that’s the truth, it’s crap.
In my [jiu-jitsu] days, I competed in the state tournament to earn a spot in the World Championship. If I didn’t win the state champion, I didn’t fight the Worlds, Souza said. (If I won), no one would jump the line. Now, because the guy has a name and everything… The reality is, Anderson is coming off doping, man. Anderson is out of the ranking. Do you understand that?
[Yoel] Romero fought for the belt and didn’t make weight. Luke [Rockhold] was going to fight Chris but got injured, he didn’t fight. Do you get that? How are you going to put any of them to fight, if one missed weight and the other got injured and couldn’t fight Chris? I was there, brother. I was there on fight day, ready to fight, healthy at 39. Who are you putting next to fight? Will you put the guy coming off doping?
[Adesanya] doesn’t deserve it. The only top middleweight he beat was Derek [Brunson], who was clearly scared. What he did to Derek, excuse me, I did twice and I did better than him, and I’m not even a striker.
I think Adesanya has everything to win, but Anderson is Anderson, right? You can’t say he’s going to beat Anderson easily, that he will go there and make it happen. It’s Anderson. It won’t be easy for anyone to beat him. No one beats Anderson that easy.
