New rumors have surfaced about the mysterious post-fight meeting between UFC President Dana White and middleweight champ Anderson Silva following April 10th’s UFC 112 main event in Abu Dhabi. A source familiar with the situation has contacted Sack Mike Goldberg with the juicy details.
According to the source, White entered Silva’s dressing room to find the champ sitting cross-legged on the floor, busy at the controls of a toy train. Candy wrappers lay scattered around the champion, who won his 11th straight bout in the UFC earlier in the evening. One corner of the room had been adorned with balloons reading “Awesome Job!” and “You’re Great!”
White asked Silva if the two could speak in private, which elicited no response from the Brazilian. Unperturbed, White repeated the question, which again went unanswered.
White then glanced over at Silva’s manager, Ed Soares. Soares walked over to his client, knelt down, and asked (in Portuguese), “Anderson, Mr. White would like to speak to you. Is that OK?”
Reports differ on the champion’s exact reaction, but the general consensus is that Silva set into a tremendous temper tantrum. One version has Silva knocking over the train set, screaming that Soares had “promised [Silva] playtime” if he beat challenger Demian Maia.
Another version states that Silva began sobbing uncontrollably about wanting to play with his toys. Soares allegedly began dragging his man out of the room, angerly whispering, “You’ve made Mr. White mad. You’ve mad me mad. Don’t make this any harder on yourself.”
A final version has Silva telling Soares to “get that [expletive] playboy out of here,” and asking White “where his jiu-jitsu” was.
Regardless of the actual course of events, it is agreed that White apologized for the sudden entrance and remarked that he might have come at a bad time. He and Soares went on to arrange for a meeting at Silva’s home in Curitiba at a later date.
We’ll have more on this story as it develops.
