{"id":654768,"date":"2010-02-04T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-217704:1"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:17:02","slug":"sonnen-isnt-trash-talking-silva-just-speading-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654768","title":{"rendered":"Sonnen isn&#8217;t trash talking Silva, just speading the &#8216;truth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Chael Sonnen had to wake up one day and see guys like Dan Hardy and Paul Daley at the front of the line for a title shot and say &quot;hey I can do that.&quot; &quot;That&quot; is creating a buzz or gaining the attention of the fans and UFC&nbsp;management. Hardy and Daley have accomplished their meteoric rises up the welterweight ranks with some good wins but more importantly agressive chops. They talk a good game and&nbsp;apparently Sonnen is right with them. <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/blog\/cagewriter\/post\/Silva-No-1-pound-for-pound-Sonnen-suggests-the?urn=mma,217031\" >He&#8217;s criticized UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva<\/a> in the past but these last two weeks, he&#8217;s been a blow torch. <\/p>\n<p>That said, Sonnen states&nbsp;this isn&#8217;t sort of orchestrated campaign. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I didn&#8217;t out anybody. But I discussed them. It&#8217;s called the truth and it&#8217;s very new in MMA. I don&#8217;t think guys are used to it. None of it was rhetoric. None of it would I apologize for. None of it was to hype a fight.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Sonnen got fans worked into a lather two weeks ago on MMAWeekly Radio when he suggested Silva was a fraud and hated the media. Why is that? Because according to Sonnen, Silva speaks perfect English but hides behind his translator Ed Soares so that he doesn&#8217;t have to do a ton of media with the English speaking press.<a name=\"remaining-content\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>When asked about Soares, who Sonnen called the &quot;mad scientist,&quot; he launched into a verbal tongue lashing asking why the Brazilian manager\/translator was even being discussed. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Time out. The opinion of Soares does not matter. I can&#8217;t believe Ed Soares&#8217; name came up in an interview. I like the guy, I&#8217;m turning on him&nbsp;but frankly that&#8217;s ridiculous. We don&#8217;t talk about managers. For God&#8217;s sake.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Sonnen went on to repeat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/absolutenm\/templates\/dailynews.asp?articleid=10556&amp;zoneid=13\" >what he said to MMAWeekly<\/a>, that the same media voting Silva No. 1 pound-for-pound doesn&#8217;t see that the champ is disrespecting them. Sonnen said he spoke with Silva backstage at UFC 102 and &quot;The Spider&quot; spoke fine English. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chael Sonnen had to wake up one day and see guys like Dan Hardy and Paul Daley at the front of the line for a title shot and say &quot;hey I can do that.&quot; &quot;That&quot; is creating a buzz or gaining the attention of the fans and UFC&nbsp;management. Hardy and Daley have accomplished their meteoric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KkM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756507,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654768\/revisions\/756507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}