Now that Dana White has said that if he beats Nick Diaz in the main event of UFC 183 on January 31, Anderson Silva will get a middleweight title shot, it looks like “the Spider” is ramping up the intensity of his training camps. For example, a few days ago, video surfaced of him landing a knee to sparring partner Douglas Moura, knocking him out and following up with a flurry of punches.
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Moura is saying he was never unconscious:
“I wasn’t out, I was just dizzy. I wasn’t out. Right after that, I recovered, got back up and we continued training. Nothing happened. No big deal.”
Moura added that it was the way the video was edited by Globo, a Brazilian TV network:
“They didn’t do a good job with the editing. That’s not what happened. We’re fighting, it happens, but when (Silva) realized I was dizzy, he didn’t punch for real. He was just touching his hand on me, giving me time to recover. There was 2:30 minutes left in the round, and we continued training after that, but they didn’t show that on TV. It happened to me, but it also happened to him before. It’s completely normal.
The way they edited, looked like he was trying to hurt me. That’s not what happened. During the other part of the training, they said Wendres ‘Godzilla’ (da Silva) gave up during his sparring session with Anderson, but that’s not true. The round simply ended and he was resting. Globo did a poor job with the editing.”
I want to believe Moura that training isn’t dangerous, but there’s a small voice in the back of my head reminding me of all the stories of how intense sparring at Chute Boxe was. If you want to see Anderson Silva attempt to knock out Nick Diaz for real, watch UFC 183 on January 31!
