Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-05-23, nice shots between Chris Weidman and Vitor Belfort: this fight gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).The undefeated black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Chris Weidman entered this fight with a perfect mma record of 12-0-0 (67% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.1 middleweight in the world. He won the Ufc Mw belt in 2013 when he faced Anderson Silva (=Silva vs Weidman I) and then defended his title twice: with ‘The Spyder’ in their rematch (=Weidman vs Silva II) and against Lyoto Machida in his only fight of 2014 (=Weidman vs Machida).
His opponent, the black belt in Bjj and judo and former Ufc Hw and light-Hw champion Vitor Belfort (he is 38 years old, eight years older than Weidman), has an official record of 24-10-0 (83% finishing rate) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since November 9, 2013 when he defeated Dan Henderson (=Belfort vs Henderson 2). Before this bout he had won over Luke Rockhold (with one of the best mma knockouts of the year, Belfort vs Rockhold) and Michael Bisping (=Belfort vs Bisping); Belfort’s last defeat occurred in 2012, against #1 light-Hw Jon Jones (=Jones vs Belfort). Weidman vs Belfort, co-main event of Ufc 187, is valid for the Ufc middleweight title (Weidman’s third defense); undercard of Anthony Johnson vs Daniel Cormier. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Event: UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
Date: 2015-05-23
Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Division: middleweight (185 lbs, 84 kg)
Title: UFC Middleweight Championship
UFC 187 fight card (main fights):
Anthony Johnson vs Daniel Cormier
Chris Weidman vs Vitor Belfort
Donald Cerrone vs John Makdessi
Andrei Arlovski vs Travis Browne
Joseph Benavidez vs John Moraga
John Dodson vs Zach Makovsky
Weidman’s previous fight: Chris Weidman vs Lyoto Machida
Belfort’s previous fight: Vitor Belfort vs Dan Henderson 2
Belfort’s next fight: Vitor Belfort vs Dan Henderson 3
Weidman’s next fight: Chris Weidman vs Luke Rockhold
Official Video:
Why Belfort didn’t finish Weidman when he was in trouble?!?!?! this was not the real belfort!! I have two answers for his behaviour: he didn’t have enough testosterone/drug or the fight was fixed…
Because Weidman wasn’t in trouble and he DID try to finish him, but most of the punches didn’t land and the ones that did were weak, because without steroids Belfort is nothing. This WAS the real Belfort – a b u m without steroids…
Weidman should have stood over that greasy Brazilian and spit on his face after finishing him. So glad that cheating pr*ck got destroyed in the first.