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Anderson Silva: I’ll Be Rooting for Vitor Belfort Against Jon Jones at UFC 152

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Anderson-Silva-Ill-Be-Rooting-for-Vitor-Belfort-Against-Jon-Jones-at-UFC-152-45231


By Marcelo Alonso Aug 28, 2012



With all the commotion surrounding its creation, the UFC
152 main event between Jon Jones and
Vitor
Belfort has become the main topic of conversation in the MMA
world.

Even UFC middleweight champ Anderson
Silva has become involved in discussion of the matchup during a
round of recent media appearances in Brazil. On Monday, “The
Spider” gave his analysis of the 205-pound title fight -- which
takes place Sept. 22 in Toronto -- during an edition of the SporTV
program “Bem, Amigos!”

“It’s difficult, because Jon Jones has a larger-than-normal
wingspan and he’s still very young,” Silva said when asked what
Belfort needs to do in order to win the title. “He’s still in the
phase where he’s playing during the fight, really, but he doesn’t
have the responsibility of a champion.

“He fights with delight, jokingly, striking like I did back in
1930, when I started,” joked Silva. “Vitor has a great chance to
defeat him. The biggest factor for Vitor is to use his
explosiveness and his jiu-jitsu, where he is very good. But I think
when one of them makes a mistake, the other will end up
striking.”

Silva admitted that his opinion is slightly biased, since he’ll be
cheering for his countryman to win come fight night, despite having
a good relationship with his fellow UFC champ.

“As a Brazilian, I’ll be rooting for the Brazilian, even though I
have a very good friendship with Jon Jones,” said Silva. “Whenever
I’m with him, I ask him to conduct his career in a different way,
because he is very young and is always asking me something. But
I’ll be rooting for Brazil, yes. May the best man win, but I’m
rooting for Brazil.”

Answering a fan-submitted question, Silva also laid to rest the
rumor of he and Jones squaring off in a super-fight any time
soon.

“We’re in different weight classes and there are teammates from
Team Nogueira who may face him,” Silva said, referring to ex-champ
Lyoto
Machida. “We have a code of conduct in our team, and I respect
that a lot.”

Leonardo Fabri contributed to this report.

Now Spider vs John Jones would be a fight I would want to see.

Best fight that could be made right now imo. Won't happen though. We're just fans and we have no say so.