It looks like Anderson Silva was quick to make friends with Jon Jones the moment he understood there was a fighter that would kick his ass easily and decided to target the less heavy George St Pierre. I love his excuse about him and Jones being in different weightclasses. Still he is perfectly ok with another fighter having to move up to challenge him... Here follows a (not perfect) translation from portuguese of a recent article from R7 esportes in Brazil. Anderson Silva has obviously held his first webcast from Curitiba.


The middleweight (84 kg) champion of the UFC, Anderson Silva has joined the newly created sports marketing company 9ine, affiliated with such as former phenomenon soccer player Ronaldo, and is slowly, becoming accustomed to social networking on the web.

The proof is that on the afternoon of Friday (15), the fighter proved excited and, although delaying the webcast with half an hour until it was possible to access the channel, first used a Twitcam, a tool for streaming audio and video, in real time, live on the web.

In the webcast He confirmed the main event of UFC Rio, on Aug. 27, against the Japanese Okami. The 'Spider' appeared playful and smiling while interacting with the Internet audience and answered all questions from curious fans from as far as Los Angeles, USA.

These where the most important questions asked and Andersons answers:

UFC Rio?
- I'll face Okami, but have no special feeling of revenge, I'm going there to do my job. It is a great opportunity because the UFC is back to Brazil. The fight is very important for me and for him.

Jon Jones
- No way. He is in another category / weightclass, we're friends and we will not fight.

Georges St. Pierre
- This fight has a chance yes, everything will depend on our results. Depends on his 129th win in the UFC and I won in August. After that, perhaps, this fight can happen.

Demian Maia
- Demian is a great fighter, is digging his space and is likely to be champion of his category, no doubt.

Jose Aldo
- Ze Aldo is a phenomenon and certainly has all the conditions to keep this belt for long, long, long years.

Source: http://esportes.r7.com/mais-esportes/no ... 10415.html

Well Its Up 2 Bones 2 Call Out Da Spider & If He Dosen't
He Will Never Be Chicken Salad Or Chicken $I-I!+

I don't care about Anderson or main event.
I wanna see Wallid Ismail at UFC Rio card. Royce camp were asking for specific opponent for matchup that Brazilians want
I'm sure they want same as me
Cheekenshit prefight interviews would be great stuff but Dana is "listening" to fans only when he hits something good hehe

Doesn't matter anyway. Okami is going to beat the Spider.

RIP Silva.

nice knowing you.