Wanderlei Silva comments on "TUF: Brazil 3" brawl with Chael Sonnen, says Sonnen fights "wanting to quit"

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

During filming of "The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3" earlier this month, a fight reportedly broke out between coaches Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva.

For "The Axe Murderer," he feels his portion of the ill-advised brawl was justified, and thinks that viewers will see as much when the show airs.

"It was the worst part of the show," Silva told Brazilian media this week (via Guilherme Cruz at MMAFighting.com). "I tell the other guys [on the show] 'don't do this and don't do that,' but [Sonnen] drives me nuts. I even apologized to the crew, but I'm not meek and mild."

"There are things I can't handle. The boss (Dana White) likes what it's fair, he was not upset about it. When they air that on TV, you'll see that I was right. I did what I had to do."

Silva has had plenty to say about Sonnen for quite some time, and he continued as much in ripping Sonnen for his TRT use, as well as his fighting spirit.

"If he needs that, what can I say?" Silva said of TRT. "I thought about using it, but my wife told me she would ask for a divorce, so I said I wouldn't. People say [Sonnen] only has one ball, so if he has to use it maybe he can't get it up."

"[Sonnen] is a good athlete, I can't underestimate him, but he didn't beat the real Shogun. Shogun gave him the neck. We can't use that fight as a parameter. He showed who he really is against Rashad [Evans]. He goes in there wanting to quit. When I push him, his spirit will want to go back home."

Penick's Analysis: It's good that the fight finally has a date and location, and that there will be some conclusion here to this back and forth. There has just been so many things said between the two that having no end to the feud would have made it all entirely pointless. This plays into that even further, and while both of them may have points against one another, none of it matters until they actually get in there and fight.

[Wanderlei Silva art by Cory Gould (c) MMATorch.com]

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_20386.shtml

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