Silva at gym opening: Weidman rematch is for my legacy
Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva recently opened up a gym – Anderson Silva’s Muay Thai College – in Torrance, CA,…
Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva recently opened up a gym – Anderson Silva’s Muay Thai College – in Torrance, CA, the same city that spawned the UFC.
During a relaxed media day to promote the gym, Silva discussed the past and future Weidman fights.
“Sometimes you have good days for working, sometimes you have bad days for working,” said Silva. “My last fight was a bad day.”
“I watch the last fight. And I see my technique and I talk to my friends and my coach and I don’t change too much. I train hard my mental because my mental was bad.”
“This is very important for me. For my family, my coach, for my legacy, this is very important.”
“So the people, maybe in five or 10 years, the people say ‘my gosh, this guy changed the sport. For five years this guy fight for the best fight for the people.’ In Brazil, I have a program for kids and I see the kids, ‘oh my gosh, one day I go to fight because you changed my life.’ This is more important to me, to change kids’ lives, than to beat Chris Weidman.”
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