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[Sniggles]

Don't know if this has been posted but it made me laugh heartily.

Wanderlei Silva calls Vitor Belfort disrespectful for breaking hand, pulling out of UFC 147 bout | Cagewriter - Yahoo! Sports

If you have a fight scheduled with Wanderlei Silva, you need to give your bones very stern instructions not to break. If they do go against your wishes and snap in two, that's disrespect.

Vitor Belfort is currently coaching against Silva on the Brazilian version of "The Ultimate Fighter" and was slated to fight him at UFC 147. A broken hand forced Belfort out of their bout. UFC president Dana White said Belfort needs surgery. Though training injuries are part of the game in MMA, Silva called it "amateurism" via his Twitter account.

"(Fighting me) with one hand (laughs)? We are professionals. It's a great irresponsibility not to be careful on training, a great disrespect towards the fans. I'm really sad. I'm ready to knock you out, you have nowhere to run. This fight is happening. I guess you got scared of me. Nobody trains so hard that breaks his hand. We use the best equipments, gloves, bandages.

"If you were scared, you shouldn't have accepted it. If you really got it broken, it's amateurism and if you didn't, you're scared. In both scenarios, it was irresponsible of you towards the fans. Pardon the word, but I'm pissed with your amateurism. A main event on the biggest event of the world and the guy shows up like that".

Strong words from Silva, especially considering that he has pulled out of fights with injuries. In 2010, cracked ribs kept him from the co-main event of UFC 116 against Yoshihiro Akiyama.

Ease up, Wand. As you well know, injuries are part of a sport that asks its competitors to hit each other as hard as possible. Hands and ribs break. Ligaments tear. Life goes on. Belfort has been in 30 professional MMA bouts, so it's hard to believe he's scared, or that he broke his hand on purpose to get out of this fight. And if he could have, wouldn't he have done that to get out of getting kicked in the face by Anderson Silva?

[IceCold48]

Lmfao wtf wand? He can't be serious.

[Rumble]

I think this was posted once already, but anyways I feel like the UFC really pushed Wand into hyping this fight. Vitor's been rather quiet, but Wand has been talking a lot more shit than he normally does. A lot of weird shit too.

Anyways, I don't really care. I'm sure he has a bit of resentment towards him, but I'd rather see it be genuine than see it from someone trying to be a company man.

Wandy is still the greatest. WAR WAND!

[Sakara=Excitement]

Wait..just reading the title Wandy is saying Vitor is disrespectful for breaking his hand?

Yeah Wandy, stop getting hit in he head and having surgery that makes you look like the Brazilian Carrottop, it's making you sound dumb.

[The Donosaur]

Does respect mean something different in Brazil. The Brazilians talk about it ALOT, and quite often it makes little sense.

[Pasha K]

Brazilian fighters are the best in the world for me, but I agree that they must have a very personal meaning of what is respect. They are like "I hate this little bitch because he has not respect, but I want to tell that motherfucker that he is just a piece of crap and he is a coward and a little cunt". It is very contradictory.

Wand is pretty respectful, but he genuinely dislikes Vitor so that is why he is trolling.

[The Donosaur]

Originally Posted by Pasha K

Brazilian fighters are the best in the world for me, but I agree that they must have a very personal meaning of what is respect. They are like "I hate this little bitch because he has not respect, but I want to tell that motherfucker that he is just a piece of crap and he is a coward and a little cunt". It is very contradictory.

Wand is pretty respectful, but he genuinely dislikes Vitor so that is why he is trolling.

Good point Pashak. Brazilian translation for "you are disrespectful": "I dislike you".

[W.Silva>C.Norris]

regardless of what you may think of the brazilian culture, or how mixed up they seem to be sometime, we must respect them for their ceaseless work in helping to eliminate hair diapers. I for one, say thank you.

[rivethead]

If you read beyond the title, the misquote is explained.

Wandi felt that breaking his hand was due to not training carefully; meaning that if Vitor wasn't taking the fight seriously enough to be careful, it was disrespectful to the org and the fans. When you consider some of that as being lost in translation, it makes more sense than the title.

Once again, MMA journalism looking for a cheap way to get attention with a deliberately crap title.

rh

[The Donosaur]

Originally Posted by rivethead

If you read beyond the title, the misquote is explained.

Wandi felt that breaking his hand was due to not training carefully; meaning that if Vitor wasn't taking the fight seriously enough to be careful, it was disrespectful to the org and the fans. When you consider some of that as being lost in translation, it makes more sense than the title.

Once again, MMA journalism looking for a cheap way to get attention with a deliberately crap title.

rh

Injuries happen though. Getting hurt doesn't mean that that he is taking a foght lightly. It just means that something bad happened while training. No matter how you look at it wandy is reaching here imo.