Anderson’s manager on middleweight challengers “you can’t promote an event with these amateur kids”

Anderson Silva is the biggest champion in UFC history, and many fighters are trying to earn their next shot in a Chael Sonnen way. After the “Spider” defeated his last opponent at UFC 148, many fighters started to say that they can submit of KO the champ.

“That’s a big joke,” Silva’s manager, Jorge Guimaraes, said about Chris Weidman, Tim Boetsch and Alan Belcher’s challenges.

“Everybody saw that it worked for Chael, and he got really famous with that, and now everybody wants to be on the spotlight”

The manager believes that only one fight makes sense for the middleweight champion right now, and it’s not on the middleweight division.

“No opponent makes sense for Anderson at this moment. Unless we do a catchweight against Georges St. Pierre,” he suggests.

“They didn’t offer the fight, but he’s the only one that could do a super fight. Anderson has the biggest paycheck in the UFC, and you can’t promote an event with these amateur kids that are coming up now”.

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