Chael: guys in the locker room know who the toughest guy is, me
The media is always trying to determine and dictate who’s the best guy in the world. In reality, we know…
The media is always trying to determine and dictate who’s the best guy in the world. In reality, we know who the real best guys in the world are because the community is so small.
I’ll go into a workout with four, five, six, eight UFC guys, and at the end of the workout we all know who the toughest guy is. It’s the guys in the back, the guys in the locker room that truly know who’s who, regardless of what the media says.
A lot of times it’s not the same guy…. Let’s use the heavyweight division for example, the best fighter in the heavyweight division right now is a guy named Cain Velasquez. I don’t think the media knows that, in fact I know they don’t. But the guys in the back do.
The same thing goes with us (middleweight division). The guys in the back know who the tough guy is. If me and Anderson both walk in the back, believe me there’s gonna be lot more of ‘Hey Mr. Sonnen’ than ‘Hey Mr. Silva.’ They know who’s who, and everybody is gonna know who’s who before the end of 2010.
Chael Sonnen
