Chris Weidman on getting a clean win at UFC 175: ‘Hopefully there is no ball breaking this time’

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Not only does Chris Weidman want to leave the octagon having defended his title for a second consecutive time, he wants to do so in dominant fashion to ensure a “clean win.”

The UFC middleweight kingpin, who is scheduled to face former light-heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida in the main event of UFC 175 on Saturday night, is not totally satisfied with his wins over Anderson Silva and is very keen to wash away the memory with a “clean” win this time around.

“It is just that you want to knock out a guy or submit a guy, so for something like that [Silva snapping his leg] to happen is just not normal. I wasn’t happy really after my last fight at all. I couldn’t smile.”

“Coming into this next fight, hopefully there is no ball breaking and that I get a clean win.” he added.

UFC 175 takes place July 5^th at the Mandalay bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Karim Zidan

Karim Zidan is a investigative reporter and feature writer focusing on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for BloodyElbow since 2014 and has served as an associate editor since 2016. He also writes for The New York Times and The Guardian. Karim has been invited to speak about his work at numerous universities, including Princeton, and was a panelist at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also participated in the United Nations counter-terrorism conference in 2021. His reporting on Ramzan Kadyrov’s involvement in MMA, much of which was done for Bloody Elbow, has led to numerous award nominations, and was the basis of an award-winning HBO Real Sports documentary.