Belfort on another chance at the title: 'You can't go against the results'

V. Belfort (photo) is currently second in the Ultimate middleweight rankings. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC

The behavior of a title challenger can make the difference in whether or not he wins the right to fight for a title in the UFC, and Chael Sonnen You've already proven this a few times. This Tuesday (18), despite claiming to be a supporter of a more measured stance, the Brazilian Vitor belfort He was incisive in stating that he believes he has done enough to have a new opportunity to be champion in the main MMA organization on the planet.

“Everyone wants to fight for the title, and they want to get there by promoting fights, picking fights, talking trash on the Twitter. I'm not saying they're wrong. It's a style. I'm not criticizing or judging, because I don't have that right. But I have the right to work hard and ask people to recognize that work. This is the way I want to get to the top, and I believe I did it. I believe I did everything necessary”, said Vitor, in an interview published in the North American newspaper USA Today.

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The fighter used as an argument his positive record since competing for the middleweight title against Anderson Silva and ended up defeated in February 2011. “You can't go against results, so look at my results,” said Belfort, who has won his last four fights as a middleweight. ” That's what I mean. Some people deserve it and others don't. They try to get there without deserving it,” he concluded.

Vitor belfort, 36 years old, has a record of 23 wins and ten losses. In his last appearance in the Octagon, the former UFC light heavyweight champion,  defeated the North American Luke Rockhold – last middleweight champion of the extinct Strikeforce – in the UFC at Combate 2, on May 18, in Jaraguá do Sul (SC).