Chris Weidman on MVP MMA Anderson Silva trilogy offer: “We’ve got to talk serious numbers”

Chris Weidman taking on Anderson Silva in a trilogy bout beneath blended martial arts guidelines is one thing that MVP MMA was reportedly pursuing for his or her Netflix card this weekend, per the previous. Weidman touched upon this forward of his looming contest with Colby Covington at RAF 9 on May thirtieth.

With MVP MMA’s inaugural card set for a Netflix broadcast tonight with large names like Ngannou, Perry, Diaz, Rousey, and Carano, a few extra large names had been explored for the cardboard with deep historical past underpinned between them. Discussing his facet of the MVP MMA staff reaching out to him about doing the Anderson Silva trilogy on their card tonight, Weidman stated [via Bowks Talking Bouts],

“Yeah, I don’t know what’s going to happen with that. Like with the MVP thing and boxing Anderson Silva. Then they were asking maybe do MMA against him and I’m like I don’t know. We got to talk some serious numbers. My body’s been through a lot. I’ve had 31 surgeries. So, to put myself through a camp like that and put myself in a situation like that, I’d have to be definitely paid a lot.”

“It would be fun. I mean, I love to fight. I love to compete. But at this stage of the game, it takes a lot for me to like recover and work around a lot of things. So, we’ll see. Well, I don’t know. I’m cool with it if it doesn’t happen. I’m cool if it happens. We’ll see what happens with that.”

Chris Weidman: “I feel like I would almost owe Anderson” one other battle

It looks as if ‘The All-American’ is extra into competing with Silva beneath boxing guidelines and that might maintain higher intrigue for him by advantage of being a more recent problem. When requested a hypothetical about if he got one other name for a boxing bout in opposition to Anderson Silva would he settle for it, Weidman acknowledged [via Bowks Talking Bouts],

“Yeah, I feel like I would almost owe Anderson that. The Anderson fight, having the opportunity to fight him so early in my career, he could have said no to that fight. So he gave me a big opportunity and I’d like to give him a big opportunity to get a chance back at me. Boxing is a good place for that and I still think, I could really show a lot of what I could do in that world, too. So, I definitely would be interested.”