UFC 117 Odds: Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen Fight Predictions: The verbal feud between UFC middleweight champion (26-4) Anderson Silva [-500 ML] and sports betting odds underdog/No.1 contender (24-10-1) Chael Sonnen [+300 ML] is heating up in the days leading up to UFC 117 Odds. Oracle Arena in Oakland, California will be the site for UFC 117, which happened Saturday night, August 7th live on pay-per-view.
For those that are following the developments for this main event closely, it is easy to see that all the talking has come from
the contender, not the champ. This week, “The Spider” justified his silence. "I just don't choose to promote the fight like that," Silva said during a recent interview.
"At the end of the day, we're going to go out there, and we're going to get in a fight," added the Brazilian. "We're going to see a brawl, and we're throwing blows, and we're trying to finish the fight."So I'm going to go out there, and I'm going to be focused, and I'm going to try to finish the fight as quickly as I can. And that's what people are paying to watch. People aren't paying to watch people talk [expletive] to each other back and forth. People are paying to watch people fight."
But for Sonnen, Silva’s antics are tired, fake and even boring. The American wrestler believes that fighters have a bigger responsibility than just getting into a cage and fighting. Riding the momentum of a 3-fight win streak, Sonnen will try and shock the world on August 7.
"You knew when you asked him a question that you were setting yourself up for a boring answer, and you got one," Sonnen said. "So what are you going to do? This is just Anderson yet again. He truly believes the answer he gave a few minutes ago, that people are putting in (money) to see a fight and not see anything else. He really means that. He feels like he's taking the moral high ground. He couldn't be more wrong.
"Does he know anything about business? Has this guy ever done anything? That's not what people are tuning in to see. People don't just want to see two people fight. They want to know why they're fighting. He comes on here and says something stupid as though he's saying some Nobel Prize-winning statement. He couldn't have this industry more backward. It's shocking that he actually believes (in what he's saying) and stands there with his chest out like we should all pat him on the back and go, 'Oh, good job, Anderson. You're training really hard.'"
As if that weren’t bad enough, Sonnen then turned to Silva, looked him in the eye and said: "Well guess what, dummy. I've been training really hard since I was 9 years old, and I still have time to bring interest to people seeing me whip your ass on Aug. 7."
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