To prepare for his upcoming fight against UFC Middleweight champion Anderson Silva, Yushin Okami has been training with one of the men who figured out the very best way to defeat the champion, Chael Sonnen. This has drawn the ire of the title holder and he didn’t mince words in an interview with “O Globo”.
“You have to find the best people to train with, and I think [Okami] chose wrong,” Silva said (translated by Sherdog.com). “I’d never align myself with a loser, a loser in every sense. He didn’t win the fight [between us] and got caught doping… and is suspended from the UFC.”
“You want to be a champion? Get with good people, with winners. Moreover, Sonnen wasn’t a tough opponent for me. I was injured with cracked ribs and fought five rounds. If I hadn’t been injured, the fight would have been different.”
Sonnen has made himself an easy target with his suspension, but it’s up to Okami to prove that his time with Chael is time well spent. He’ll have his chance at UFC 134 in Rio on August 27.