The first two Chris Weidman-Anderson Silva fights will go down as two of the best fights in UFC history but Weidman wouldn’t mind seeing Silva hang up the gloves without a trilogy fight.
“Being the champion, I know this ends up going further than I’d even want my comments to go, because my opinion, I don’t think, really matters that much and I don’t want it to weigh on him at all,” Weidman said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “But me as a fan, if I’m just a normal person, I want to see him done.
“As Chris Weidman, as me, it’s a big money fight, a third fight eventually. But I’d really just like to see him retire. I think he’s got a great family, he’s got five kids, he’s made a lot of money, he has a great legacy. He just won a fight. I wouldn’t mind seeing him retire on a ‘W’.”
Weidman also gave his opinion of the Silva-Diaz fight from this past weekend:
“It was a very weird fight,” Weidman said. “I have a lot of respect for both fighters, especially Anderson, fighting him twice. I’ve actually grown to respect Anderson even more. I spoke to him a couple times at The Time is Now event and I think he really has grown as a person. He’s a likable guy, he really has become a family guy, more spiritual. I think he’s just really grown as a person, so I have a lot of respect for him.
“In the fight, you know, I’m happy that he came back. He was healthy, he was able to go out there and get a W. But do I think he looked impressive? No. I don’t think he’s what everybody thought Anderson would look like and what he could do to Nick Diaz. There was a lot going against him with the leg injury, it didn’t seem like he was kicking the legs as much as he usually could. But, you know, I don’t know. I don’t think he deserves a title shot. There’s a lot of other guys that I think are better than him right now.”
UFC President seemed to think that Anderson deserved a title shot if he defeated Diaz and we will soon find out if White plans on sticking to that statement. Until then Chris Weidman will try to rehab yet another injury and focus on defending his title against anyone ASAP.