Wanderlei (photo) is now a Bellator athlete. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC
Wanderlei Silva He's back fighting and has an appetite. The Brazilian veteran, who came out of retirement and signed a contract with Bellator, is already thinking about which fights he would like to do on his return to action – and the promise is a spectacle in the cage.
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Now seeing himself as “an artist”, whose main objective is to make great performances for the public, Wanderlei has two opponents he would like to face soon. One of them, by the way, is not Tito Ortiz, his former opponent and who is now at Bellator. “Ortiz’s game is f***ing boring, he keeps grabbing it. I want a guy to go hand in hand. Against Kimbo [Slice] I wouldn't put him down, I would punch him. With Kimbo, I would go out on my own to see which one it is, without putting it down”, said Wanderlei, in an interview with the “Combate” channel website.
Another opponent of Wand's desire for the future is none other than Fedor Emelianenko, currently with Rizin, Bellator's Japanese partner organization. "I would like. Not at first, but getting the rhythm, having some fights and getting back to my best shape, I would really like to test myself with him. I like to see what the limit is. At the time we were tops [at PRIDE], I don't know why, but this fight wasn't proposed. They never offered it to me, ever”, he clarified.
Wanderlei was retired from MMA while he had a contractual relationship with the UFC, but, with his release from his old agreement, he announced that he would return to fighting. However, the Brazilian remains banned from fighting in the United States until next year, still under suspension for refusing to take a surprise drug test in May 2014.
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