{"id":999,"date":"2013-07-07T01:09:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=999"},"modified":"2013-07-07T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T05:12:00","slug":"chris-weidman-stuns-anderson-silva-in-ufc-middleweight-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/07\/07\/chris-weidman-stuns-anderson-silva-in-ufc-middleweight-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman stuns Anderson Silva in UFC middleweight fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1001\" alt=\"weidman\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/weidman.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/weidman.jpg 455w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/weidman-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Weidman defeated Anderson Silva in their match-up at UFC 162.<\/p>\n<p>Weidman stunned the crowd when he knocked Silva out 1:18 into the second round. Silva had won his last ten title defenses. It was the first time Silva had ever been TKO in his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like I was destined for it, but it still felt a little far-fetched.&#8221; Weidman said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview after the match, Silva, 38, did not request a rematch and\u00a0 said he is not retiring. He did not give any clear indication of his future plans other than that he won&#8217;t fight for the belt again.\u00a0 &#8220;I worked hard for this fight. I respect my fans; I respect U.S. Chris Weidman was the best tonight. He is the best. &#8221; Silva said.<\/p>\n<p>Silva thanked the crowd almost in tears and said, &#8220;This changed my life, my family&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weidman, 29, was escorted to the ring as &#8220;Born in the USA&#8221; played over the loudspeaker. Weidman is from Baldwin, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Weidman defeated Anderson Silva in their match-up at UFC 162. Weidman stunned the crowd when he knocked Silva out 1:18 into the second round. Silva had won his last ten title defenses. It was the first time Silva had ever been TKO in his career. &#8220;I feel like I was destined for it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}