Sonnen: I want to spit on Anderson Silva
“I don’t want his autograph,” Sonnen said. “I want to spit on him. I want everything that he has. I’m…
“I don’t want his autograph,” Sonnen said. “I want to spit on him. I want everything that he has. I’m jealous and I’m envious. And I will never apologize for that. There can only be one champion, and you have to fight it out. He’s not gonna give it up; I’m not going to give it up. We’re going to have to fight this thing out and figure it out like men.”
Sonnen did dominate his first encounter against Silva, but he ended getting caught in an arm-bar/triangle choke combo in the fifth round. Sonnen still believes he won his UFC 117 encounter against Silva, and he had a pretty amusing version of what really went down that night.
“That was a misunderstanding of the rules,” Sonnen added. “The way I thought it worked was that if you tap, you lost that round. I thought what they were going to do was go to the judges’ decision; they’ll go four rounds to one, then we’ll go home and I’ll be the new champion. And if anyone had explained to me that that stops the fight in its entirety, I would not have tapped. … I’d never been in a five round fight, I just didn’t know.”