The lead up to UFC 117's middleweight title bout between Champion, Anderson Silva and Challenger, Chael Sonnen has been a completely one side affair in favor of Sonnen in terms of trash talk but in his defense, Silva explains to UOL his stance on trash talk:
“I can't please everyone. When you become a world reference in a sport you perform you become the target of cheap talking. It's need to watch yourself because any wrong attitude ends showing an opposite image of what is actually represented”