“Definitely no. We’re close friends and I believe there’s space for everybody there, it’s definitely out of my plans.”
– Undefeated WEC Middleweight Champion Paulo Filho denies the recent rumors via Tatame.com that the UFC is working on a plan to match him against its champion — Anderson Silva — to find out who the best middleweight in the world really is. Apparently Filho has no desire to face his countryman and good friend, saying emphatically that the super fight is not going to happen. He had also at one time turned down a request from Chuck Liddell to help with preparation for his fight with Wanderlei Silva last December, stating he would not help an American train for a fight against a Brazilian. It would be awesome to see Silva and Filho fight, but it looks like that’s a long shot to ever happen.
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I don’t think they need to fight for us to agree that Silva is the best MW in the world.
He needs a convincing win over Sonnen before I’m convinced he’s even the best MW in WEC.
Yes, this fight is a long shot to ever happen. But do you know what is an even longer long shot??? Paulo’s chances of beating Anderson if the fight ever did happen.
This just in…Silva said Filho’s mother smells like hot garbage. LETS FIGHT!
Silva would straight smash this dude. That’s why he won’t fight him. No one’s close to Silva at middle weight.
Silva would kill him, and he knows that.
Silva is a living legend. Friend or no friend- Filho would get slaughtered. And lets face it- for the right price he’d do it. There is a huge difference between WEC money and UFC money.
No shot. Too much sense of loyalty in Brazil — same reason why Silva bumped up to 205 to fight Irvin, but refused to contend for the title, bc he didn’t want to interfere with Machida’s run to top 205
Why are brazilians like that? Imagine how weird it would seem if Liddell refused to fight Rashad because they are both americans. It’s just a competition.
Its because Brazilians are way more proud than Americans, and even the Japanese…. they’ll fight if the price is right (anyone would) but usually they don’t like to fight a fellow brizilian..
Its not that he doest want to fight machida couse there both brazillian its because they both train together and machida is on his way to a title shot so silva like a good friend is letting have his shot at a title.
I hate this nationalistic crap. Close friend, i could understand (Shogun-Wanderlei), but not helping someone train because hes fighting someone from the same country as you??? Please. Imagine if fighters from the U.S had that mentality. I think its completely unprofessional.
Filho is WAY overrated and might even lose his next fight…he would also lose to Nate, Hendo, Franklin etc.
well said, my thoughts exactly
i can’t say he is overrated being that i seen him fight once and he wasn’t himself against sonnen the first time, but anyone silva will say is a top ranked fighter probably is friend or not he calls it like it is and if you got a problem he’ll fight you
Agreed, the dude had his hands full with Sonnen
Anderson Silva is an amazing Champ.. woah how lucky are we all to witness such greatness.. Filho has not looked as impress as of yet here in WEC as he was in Japan. There are alot of match ups that can be intresting for Filho.. as now and tomorrow if there was fantasy or real fight between the Legend Anderson vs Filho. 1 body bag for Filho please…
yeah I agree. I dont care who you are, if you weigh 185 lbs, Silva will slaughter you!
Agreed!
A lot of people were riding Filho for this comment. If he doesn’t want to fight AS, hey, more power to him. He doesn’t have to fight Silva if he doesn’t want to. But it does present and interesting problem if he were to become the #1 contender in the UFC. What to do?
bump him up to 205?
he’d be a pretty short 205er
Contestant smacks the shit out an indian TV host, then gets beat up by the staff.. “How can she smack me”.. he says wimpering…
http://www.jokeroo.com/extremevideos/indian_tv_host_gets_slapped.html
Well she shouldn’t have been giving him lip then..
“How can she smack! How can she smack!!” Funny stuff.
Personally I think the Brazilians all look out for each other when they know who would whoop who. AS would destroy Machida IMO, as well as Filho.
However, I don’t think this was the case in the Chuck situation – he just didnt want to train someone who was fighting his boy. Don’t blame him.
What I found funny was.. She mouthed off..then went for the open hand bitch smack.. granted.. she is wrong.
Man..but money should been a litte bit more wiser.. 1. She is a woman.. unless it was Cyborg or Carano and company.. then put your guard up.. and defend yourself.. he is a dude.. I’m sure his smack which he did not hold back on hurt more then hers..
2. He is on HER show.. all her peeps are in the studio.. shit her brother, cousin, boyfriend or husband could of been up in the studio.. what if that was your girl that smacked like that in front of you.. DRAMA OCCURS!!
3. He asked for it.. I don’t feel bad for him.. and someone got to put a muzzle on the host too.
I think they both deserved it lol, I’m not a fan of a man hitting a woman, but she shouldn’t have slapped him in the first place, she is the professional and should have kept her cool. Did you see how she kept quiet once she got slapped? LOL, it was like she was brought back to earth.
He also got what he deserved, never hit a woman, no matter what. I thought it was funny how he was crying at the end once everyone jumped him LOL.
hehehehehehe.. Linx ur.. right a lesson learned by both of them..
Hey This picture of the world’s BIGGEST Dog.. It’s really like the size of horse.
My bad gentlemen I bit bored..
http://www.jokeroo.com/funnypictures/worlds_biggest_dog.html
LOL, that’s like a pony!
i didn’t get the reason why she slapped him i couldn’t understand someone explain PLZ what he said that offended her !!! lol
Well the clip jsut shows a second or 2 before she flips.. all I heard him say was ” I really don’t want to talk to you ” .. I don’t know what led up to the whole thing.
i thought people from india were too proud to fight each other.<sarcasm alert!
Franklin,Okami,Henderson,Nate,Lindland,and Sonnen are better than Filho anyways…..no way in hell is he the #2 fighter..
dam right – who does he think he is? a champ? well fucking act like one then and fight the best to be the best. … nearly as bad a KJ Noooo
i think sonnen will get beaten badly this time, lawler knocked out smith in there 2nd fight,gsp pounded on serra, filho wasn’t right mentally and you know it the others are probably better but NOT sonnen he was terrible in the ufc
He’s so scared he probably pissed his pants when he was asked about fighting Silva
Dude is a douche! Silva wouldn’t even break a sweat against this guy.
I don’t get it? why mention he wouldn’t help liddell against wandy that happened last year? This is a totally different scenerio.
Although it’s a different scenario, it is relevant to point out his feelings of loyalty to other Brazilian fighters. Whether it is not to fight them or not to train another fighter who is going to fight them, he is demonstrating his loyalty. Him losing to Spider if they fought is irrelevant, but true.
IDK, I’m pretty sure he’d fight other brazilians, the only reason he doesn’t want to fight the spider is because they train together. It just seems like an irrelevant topic to mention that again. He got so much heat for saying that about the chuck preparations last december and I’m thinking maybe he’ll get more heat than he would if mania did not mention that again…
Not irrelevant at all. What separates Anderson Silva from almost every other MMA great is the fact that he wants to fight as often as possible and consistently asks for only the best to challenge him, which I guess is unavoidable anyway given the position he’s in of defending his title (with that said, though, he doesn’t have to fight as often as he does).
Point is, the fight with Filho (a great fighter in his own right) would only solidify that fact, and continue to uphold Silva as MMA’s best. What was the reason Fedor had a “falling out” with fans over the past couple years? Only recently having fought decent competition (although I would hardly consider Sylvia “worthy” competition in my eyes) has he reaffirmed his spot at the top of the rankings.
I’m saying it’s irrelevant to this story to mention filho wouldn’t train with chuck prior to fighting wandy. Not that filho and anderson won’t fight each other because they train together.
LINX. your right, brazilians will fight other brazilians, just not from the same camp usually. a.silva’s manger has said on record that anderson would fight fihlo, but doesnt want to, because like you said they are friends. chutebox is the same way. so is aka(swick,koscheck,fitch)and mfs and team couture etc. i think it has more to do with what camp they come from than country. iv’e seen a few jungle rumble’s and it seems like there are alot of brazil vs brazil fighters.
I will never find out if I can beat Anderson Silva either cos I will never fight him or if I could take Brock down at will or if I would TKO Chuck. What a dick.
Give him Hendo, Franklin, and Marquart. If he gets past them, then I will be excited. Otherwise, I’m not.
I’m tired of these Brazilians bitching about how they will not fight with their fellow countrymen. You f@ckin fight who Dana tells you to fight BlTCHES!!
That has got to be the worst excuse ever. So when he was growing up who did he fight? If he doesn’t want to fight against his countrymen then find a sport in the Olympics, otherwise he’s paid to be a fighter. He just knows he will get beat down and doesn’t want to lose his undefeated record. He has fought other
Brazilians in other organizations so this should be no different.
If Filho can string together a bunch of wins in the UFC, and Silva stay’s the champ (I don’t see how this will change), I’d expect Dana to get a Silva vs Filho fight done. Money has way of changing people’s minds. Really, it does. Filho can say he doesn’t want to fight Silva right now but it’s harder to say that when you are looking at a bunch of bills being pushed in your direction.
I know who the best MW in the world is: Anderson Silva.
You’re a fool if you think Paulo “I fight cans and almost lose” Filho will even get past the first round.
Chael Sonnen is no can. He’s one of the best middleweights out there.
I love Paulo, but i think we all know Anderson would beat him…. I think Matt Lindland is one of the best middleweights. Lindland vs Silva is a dream fight.