Chael: ‘I don’t lay on my back looking up’

Chael Sonnen, UFC President Dana White, and Anderson Silva met Wednesday in Rio for the UFC 148 press conference. Chael Sonnen met with reporters afterwards and, well, let Chael be Chael.

Q: Why this rivalry towards Anderson?

Chael Sonnen: Rivalry comes with the challenge. He’s a fraud, phony and I’m not gonna stand before him. I had to grow up with this crap, I had to grow up with Mike Tyson’s crap. They tried to tell us Mike was the best fighter in the world, but in the reality he was never the best fighter in our country. The whole time Evander Holyfield was there. Every single day of Mike Tyson’s life that he held the world championship belt, Evander Holyfield was there and could beat him in every one of those days. Every single day that Anderson has the world championship, I’ve been here. We’re not from different genres, generations, we don’t have a big age gap. There’s not one day of his life he’s been the best fighter in the world. I’m the best and I’ve always been.

Q: How did you feel when Anderson said you’re just a wrestler and not a mixed martial artist?

CS: I think it’s a compliment. I am a martial artist mixture or anything else you wanna say. I don’t wear little cocky pajamas, I don’t bowl, I don’t lay on my back looking up at somebody. I’m a pugilist, I’m a fist fighter, I’m a gangster from the mean streets of Oregon.

Q: Why you keep saying bad things about Brazil when you don’t really know the country?

CS: Why don’t you ask Anderson why he let me say those things about you guys for so long? Why don’t you guys ask Anderson why he’s a Brazilian when it’s convenient? When the reality is he was made rich by a North American company, famous by a North American company, bought a 2 million dollars mansion in North America so he can leave Brazil the first chance he gets. Why don’t you guys ask him that? He’s Brazilian when it’s convenient.

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