Rothwell rips Silva and Belfort
Today Ben Rothwell appeared on the MMA Hour and wasn’t shy about ripping on some of the UFC’s biggest stars, Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort.
Today Ben Rothwell appeared on the MMA Hour and wasn’t shy about ripping on some of the UFC’s biggest stars, Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort:
Ben Rothwell has made his fair share of mistakes, but he also hasn’t been afraid to face them head-on. So when he sees a fighter like Vitor Belfort refuse to answer or even acknowledge questions regarding an increasingly muddled history with performance enhancing drugs, as Belfort chose to do on Monday, then Rothwell can’t help but get a little upset.
“The difference is I want to address it, because I face my problems,” Rothwell said Monday on The MMA Hour. “That’s it. I face my problems. I take them on. I take responsibility. And man, Vitor was awesome when I met him in July, how nice he was to me and all this stuff. It just really sucks to hear that. Come on, man. Be the warrior. Be the man and face this. It happened. There’s nothing you can do about it. This is your responsibility. You went through this. This is yours. F–king own it. Just deal with it.”
“People will criticize me, but you can look at my reports and see that, dude, I had a case. I could’ve fought it,” Rothwell said. “The commission, the Wisconsin commission gave me a warning because they were like, ‘Ben did not have an advantage. We have eight weeks of testing. Yes, he was high the night of the fight. He was low the week of and all these eight weeks before.’ And you know what? I could’ve fought the whole thing. The UFC was the one that gave me a suspension. And you know what I said? I said it’s my fault. It’s 100-percent my fault. Even though a doctor was prescribing it and overlooking everything, it’s not the doctor’s fault. It was my choice. And that’s it. That’s the difference between me and Anderson Silva.”
