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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"Without a doubt, it feels like fate. When I got injured, I was down, but I did feel like something better was going to happen out of this. I thought I was going to get an even bigger fight than the Boetsch fight. I didn't have my hopes up too much that it would be Anderson, but I knew there was a chance it could be. Everybody who could have had a shot lost. Things went my way. I'm grateful and humble for the opportunity.
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I'm very motivated to make the most of this opportunity and not just be another title contender. Every other time I've had a full training camp, I've had a finish. And I plan on continuing that. I'm going against the greatest of all-time, but that's not going to change my confidence of what I'm going to do in there. I'm very excited.
I believe this is meant to be. It's not meant to be that I get there to lose. I'd be disgusted with myself if that happens. I refuse to let myself be beat. After all this, I believe I'm meant to win."
-Chris Weidman talks to MMAFighting.com about his long-desired bout with Anderson Silva finally becoming a reality, and what he believes will happen this July.
Penick's Analysis: If Weidman were to pull off the upset as the default challenger, it would make for an incredible story. But that's the after-the-fact story. Leading into the fight, he's still the default challenger because, as he says, the names in front of him lost. He's a very talented fighter who has looked very good in some of his fights, but he's still really early into his career and will have been out of action a year into this fight. It's going to be a very difficult thing for him to accomplish, and if he manages to do that, it will be one of the more impressive feats ever pulled off inside the Octagon.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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