Claudio Silva calls for banning of Nordine Taleb from MMA
Claudio Silva: “Nordine Taleb had 15 minutes to beat me and couldn’t do it. Now he wants to fight on the streets? He has to be banned from the sport.”
At UFC Fight Night 130 Claudio ‘Hannibal’ Silva returned to the Octagon after nearly four year, submitted Nordine Taleb in Round 1.
Taleb’s post-fight message on his social network was unusual, laying responsibility on referee Neil Hall, who had admonished the French fighter not to grab Silva’s glove.
https://twitter.com/TNT83MMA/status/1000805881653678081
However, the tweet was nothing compared to what Silva alleges happened next.
After the fight, I tried talking to him and he told me not to talk to him, said Silva to Lucas Rezende for BloodyElbow.com. Afterwards, I was sitting at the hotel and he walked by me and I greeted him. He turned around and said ‘F*** you, you son of a b****. You’re a piece of s***. I’ll beat you ten times out of ten. Let’s go right now’. I was like ‘What’s your problem? Are you crazy?’ and he replied by saying ‘If anybody talks to me like that, I’ll kill them. You’re nobody, you’re s***.’
I think the UFC should do something about it. Can you imagine if my mom or my son were there to hear those things? That guy is the scum of the sport. That’s what I think. He had 15 minutes to beat me and couldn’t do it. Now he wants to fight on the streets? He has to be banned from the sport.