Weidman on Silva: People don’t like liars
Chris Weidman: “Everybody messes up, so people understand that. But people don’t like liars. So if you mess up, man, just be honest. People respect that.”
UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman recently appeared on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, and discussed Anderson Silva’s recent hearing before the Nevada Athletic Commission. Silva had failed multiple PED tests, but did not confess, instead offering an uncompelling story about taking a sexual enhancement drug from Thailand that tested positive for PEDs on a lost test, and lasted in the system far longer than PEDs last in the system.
“I watched like a little bit of it and I saw some people (talk about it), so I don’t know all of the facts,” said Weidman as transcribed by Shaun Al-Shatti for MMAFighting.com. “I don’t want to just starting talking without knowing all of the facts, but I saw some people said that he changed his story like three times. I saw Bas Rutten said that. And my thing is just, everyone is a screw-up. I tweeted this out. But everybody messes up, so people understand that. But people don’t like liars.
“So if you mess up, man, just be honest. People respect that and understand it because everyone messes up. People appreciate honesty. And if you’re changing your story three different times, that doesn’t sound good. Just fess up.”
“I feel like everybody who I fight, they’re doing so good, everyone thinks they’re going to beat me. Then after I beat them, they just don’t look too good anymore. You can start with Mark Munoz, I think he was on a three- or four-fight win streak, he was going to fight for the title, people thought he had a chance at beating Anderson Silva. And then I beat him and he went on a pretty crazy losing streak and then he sucked in people’s eyes.
“Then obviously the Anderson Silva fights, people have a million excuses afterwards. But you watch him against Stephan Bonnar the fight before, he’s unbeatable. Obviously he was putting his hands down in those fights, and he did that same thing to me except I stuck to what I was planning on doing. I stayed on course and took him out. Since then, he hasn’t looked so good. And then, obviously, Lyoto Machida. Poor Lyoto, he’s going through a tough patch. And Vitor, we’ll see what happens with him. But there seems to always be, no matter what, it’s just excuses, excuses.”
“If I would’ve lost to him, I’d be thinking (about whether he was on PEDs). Because I beat him, it’s whatever. I’m not putting too much thought into that. It doesn’t make a difference if he was on it or not on it.”
Chris Weidman fight Luke Rockhold at UFC 194 on Dec. 12 on what is expected to be the biggest card in UFC history.