“Well [Anderon Silva] he’s awesome you know. He deserves to be where he is, I’m not delusional to the fact that he has a lot of tools. He’s awkward too, he’s got a really awkward body. He’s tall. There’s not a lot of guys to train with, with his build. Everything he has is very sharp, his arms are so skinny that the bones are on his elbows. His legs are skinny, the bones of his knees and his shin. He can just hurt you a lot of different ways.”
“With that said, he’s beatable and everybody that’s a champion has to get through what I have to get through and that is to beat this guy on the pedestal. Anderson had to do it. When Anderson came in, Rich Franklin was the favorite. The odds makers had him, the fans had him and the promotion had him as the favorite and Anderson had to get over that hump and find a way to win.”
“Take St-Pierre who’s the best fighter in our sport right now. St-Pierre had to come in behind Matt Hughes who everybody said was unstoppable and he had to find a way to beat him. You know BJ Penn at the same time; all these guys have had to do that. So I’m in those shoes right now.”
“Anderson is out there but in truth he’s just a guy. You know he doesn’t’ get to bring anything to the fight that I don’t. He doesn’t get to bring a friend with him; he doesn’t get to bring a lead pipe with him. He’s got a couple of hands and a couple of feet and a bunch of fingers and toes, I got the same thing.”
“So when we get in there and we mix it up. I’ll certainly have to be ready, but so will he. You know, he can beat me, but I can beat him too. I will not back down from Anderson Silva, I can assure you that much.”
— Chael Sonnen talks Anderson Silva with purefight.org: (video after the jump)
HT: purefight.org