Chris Weidman is open to boxing Anderson Silva if promoters are willing to cough up “good money.”
But new reports claiming the former UFC middleweight champion is set for a “Spider” trilogy are categorically false, according to the “All American,” who suggested that someone went to print based solely on Weidman’s off-the-cuff remark at last weekend’s national wrestling tournament in Atlanta.
“No,” Weidman told MMA Junkie when asked if there was any truth to the rumor. “People would love to see me go against Anderson Silva again. His fans could see if he could get a win back on me and knock me out in boxing. That’s more his thing, so why not? But that being said, no. I know where it came from because my manager did some research and found out. I’d entertain it for good money. So someone ran with the Anderson Silva thing and just said I said it’s set. I didn’t say it’s set. There’s not talks. There’s no dates set. I was just going to let them run with it cause maybe it ends up happening. But no, there’s no talks that I know of.”
Silva (34-11, 1 NC) turned 50 back in April.
