Rashad Evans offers to fight Anderson Silva if he’s “down for it”
Former UFC light heavyweight champion, Rashad Evans has been floating the interesting notion of dropping to the middleweight division in the future, including calling out current 185 pound champion, Anderson Silva “if he’s down for it”.
Speaking via FightCove.com , Evans said:
“I thought about (moving to middleweight), then I thought about how hard that weight cut is. I used to wrestle at 174 in college, I would cut so much weight on a continuous basis and I was like, ‘You know what? If I ever have to compete again, I’m not cutting weight like that’. Because what ends up happening is, the philosophy is, ‘Oh well you go down to a lower weight and you’ll be stronger’. Not necessarily. Some people go down to a lower weight and they’re actually weaker, and I felt like when I was the best athlete I could be in college wrestling, is when I wrestled to my natural weight. So that’s what I try to do in fighting, I try to compete at my natural weight. I may go to 185 and not be the same fighter because I’m maybe cutting too much weight.”
“Anderson (Silva) is somebody I would love to fight because when it’s all said and done, whether you win or lose, to compete against the best in the sport is really what it’s all about. You know, if I can walk away from my career and say I competed against some of the best in the sport in my time and era, then I can wrap up and say I had a really great career. So if the opportunity comes, and that fight happens, yeah I would drop to 185 to fight.”
Evans isn’t exactly the biggest light heavyweight to ever grace the octagon and with a strong wrestling base and knockout power it’s hard to argue against those who feel he’d give “The Spider” a major run for his money if the two men were to ever meet. Stay tuned to MMABay for more news on this situation as we get it.
By Michael Pepper. (Follow me on Twitter)
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