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Dana White: Anderson Silva’s UFC 162 Loss Cost GSP, Jon Jones a Lot of Money

UFC President Dana White is sticking to his word–and common sense–that Anderson Silva’s UFC 162 loss puts the kibosh on two proposed superfights.

For many years considered the best mixed martial artist of all-time, Silva has perpetually been the centerpiece of two “superfight” rumors; one with UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre and the other with Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones.

But a key element of the superfight scenario would have been the notion that the two, title-holding competitors effectively “cleaned out” their respective divisions, and insofar as Silva could not defeat challenger Chris Weidman at UFC 162, one simply cannot make that claim for Silva.

The fact that Weidman won via a brutal, second-round, “knockout of the night” only further chips at the idea of booking Silva in such a superfight.

“[Weidman’s win] cost Georges St. Pierre, Jon Jones…and Anderson Silva a lot of money,” said White of the fact that Silva’s loss Saturday nixes talk of booking a superfight against either GSP or Jones.

With the superfights officially off the table, UFC will move forward with a Jon Jones vs. Alexander Gustafsson fight in September and a Georges St. Pierre vs. Johny Hendricks bout in November.

Written by Brian Cantor

Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. He has been a leading reporter in the music, movie, television and sporting spaces since 2002.

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