Chris Weidman demands Jake Paul fight Anderson Silva instead of UFC fighters Amanda Wescott\/SHOWTIME\/Instagram\/spiderandersonsilvaMMA legend Chris Weidman is calling on Jake Paul to stop challenging UFC fighters and instead take on Brazilian Anderson Silva. With Jake Paul\u2019s KO victory over Tyron Woodley in their December rematch, The Problem Child has been trying to secure fights with UFC stars Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal. However, with the two under contract with the UFC, the top MMA organization is unlikely to allow either possible opponent to duke it out in the boxing ring with Paul. Now, Chris Weidman is telling Jake Paul to stop trying to pick fights with the UFC\u2019s talent and instead turn his attention to one of the best no longer with the org \u2013 Anderson Silva. (Segment begins at 3:08) Chris Weidman weighs in on Jake Paul During his \u2018Won\u2019t Back Down\u2019 podcast, Weidman said that while he would \u201clove\u201d to fight Jake Paul, he doesn\u2019t believe he would have any chance against anyone in his own size, but noted there is one opponent Jake should eye. \u201cI would love to see him fight Anderson Silva,\u201d Weidman said. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s calling out all these fighters on UFC contracts \u2013 none of these are really going to happen at this point. UFC would have to get behind it.\u201d According to Weidman, unless the fights would draw in $500 million, such as when Conor McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather, the UFC would never go for it and if they did, they would want to split it. \u201cHe\u2019s wasting time talking about Nate Diaz and Masvidal and whoever. Just a waste of time to all of them. But that\u2019s how he\u2019s amping himself up,\u201d Weidman blasted. \u201cAnderson Silva is not under contract, he\u2019s a professional boxer, he\u2019s been looking great \u2013 he just beat a world champion, and they\u2019re around the same weight.\u201d There\u2019s still no indication on who Jake will be taking on next, but it will be interesting to see if a possible bout against The Spider is in the cards sometime in 2022 or if the UFC can work something out with the YouTuber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chris Weidman demands Jake Paul fight Anderson Silva instead of UFC fighters Amanda Wescott\/SHOWTIME\/Instagram\/spiderandersonsilvaMMA legend Chris Weidman is calling on Jake Paul to stop challenging UFC fighters and instead take on Brazilian Anderson Silva. With Jake Paul\u2019s KO victory over Tyron Woodley in their December rematch, The Problem Child has been trying to secure fights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}