Chael Sonnen on Silva; "I felt him break. ....he came back. I've never seen that, ever."

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According to UFC President Dana White who spoke to the Jim Rome Show on Tuesday, Sonnen let his guard down even more information about just how much he respects Anderson Silva inside and outside the cage, especially after their fight at UFC 148.

“Chael Sonnen, motivated, in great shape, injury free, couldn’t have been better, and wanted that title so bad. Goes in that first round, look at the way that happened, and this is what Chael Sonnen said to me after the fight, he didn’t say it at the press conference, but he said it to me,” White revealed.

“He said ‘I have so much respect for this guy, Dana. I’ve been competing in combat sports since I was 7-years old and in that first round when I was on top of him and I was hitting him with those big elbows, I felt him break. I broke him in that first round. He came back in the second round, and destroyed me’. He said ‘I’ve never seen anybody do that, ever.”

Silva has routinely made the impossible seem possible inside the Octagon. Undefeated during his entire UFC career and now riding an unprecedented 10 consecutive title defense streak, Silva even made a believer out of Chael Sonnen on Saturday night.

Say what you will about the Chael Sonnen that seems to say the craziest things to pick a fight, when it’s over he’s a smart man that can admit when he’s wrong.

There’s another Chael Sonnen that now respects the hell out of Anderson Silva after a second fight with the man routinely referred to as the greatest mixed martial artist alive.

http://www.mmaweekly.com/chael-sonnen-felt-anderson-silva-break-in-the-first-but-he-destroyed-him-in-the-second

I'm pretty surprised at how respectful Chael is being toward Anderson.

Well how can he not?
He's absolutely right. I think it's pretty obvious at this point that Siva just doesn't break. If he was going to get broken, Chael would be 2-0 against him right now.
Lots of guys would have quit against Chael in either fight that Silva was in against him.

That's why Silva has kept that belt for so long.