According to a Jan. 30 report from MMA Junkie, Rashad Evans guarantees he would beat UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva.
"I'm not a good matchup for him," Evans told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "I'm sure he's not chomping at the bit to fight me. He doesn't really have anything to gain from fighting me, so I don't know if he would even want to fight me. I don't know why he would go out of his way to fight somebody like me. If the UFC is not going to make him fight me, then I don't see why he would fight me."
Evans, who is slated to fight on Feb. 2 at UFC 156, pointed out that it's nothing personal, as he thinks Silva is a nice gentleman outside of the cage. He just wants to prove who the better fighter is.
"Besides that, I love Anderson, Evans added. "He's a great guy outside of the cage, and he's one of my favorite fighters to watch inside the cage. To me, to fight him would be a little bittersweet because I know I would beat him. I know I would beat him."
No word yet on who Silva will fight next. In all likelihood, it will be either Chris Weidman, Cung Le or Rashad Evans.
"They're overlooking Nogueira, but I'm not," Evans said. "They've already got me winning the fight and wanting to fight at 185. But for me, it's first things first, and that's fighting Nogueira. That's the only thing I really care about right now. Anderson is I guess a fantasy fight. It has to be the right deal for it to even happen.
"It's just a matter of getting that belt back around my waist. I just want to go out there and compete with the best guys. If I get a chance to fight Jon Jones or Anderson Silva or whoever may have the belt at the time, that's what it's about. I just want to go out there and compete and have fun competing."
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