{"id":362233,"date":"2025-12-22T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362233\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:46:07","slug":"rafs-yoel-romero-sits-chris-weidman-wants-anderson-silva-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362233\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF\u2019s Yoel Romero sits Chris Weidman, wants Anderson Silva boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following his victory over Woodley, \u201cThe Spider\u201d once again campaigned for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/396298\/anderson-silva-vs-chris-weidman-heavyweight-trilogy-booked-nov-14-miami-boxing-ufc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an \u201cAll American\u201d trilogy<\/a>. That would give the Brazilian an opportunity to avenge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2015\/12\/6\/9850774\/ufc-194-full-fight-video-watch-chris-weidman-score-upset-knockout-anderson-silva-las-vegas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two prior losses to Weidman<\/a> but rob the fans of a boxing showdown opposite another UFC middleweight veteran in the form of Yoel Romero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI want every sport, and don\u2019t blink because boxing, I\u2019m coming for the boxing,\u201d Romero told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kyv7cSZM3Es\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Schmo<\/a>. \u201cYou see what happened, Anderson Silva beat Tyron. But he called the wrong name! He said he wants to fight Weidman. Come on, Silva. Come on, my man. You know I am the man. You need to fight with me. You need to fight me, I need to fight you. Let\u2019s do it! Boxing, let\u2019s go Anderson. See you soon, boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That performance will send \u201cSoldier of God\u201d into a Real American Freestyle (RAF) collision against UFC middleweight Bo Nickal on Jan. 10 in Sunrise, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ncaa-wrestling-news-and-results\/410201\/bo-nickal-bails-yoel-romero-match-raf-4-replaced-ex-bellator-bruiser-beat-chris-weidman-ufc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second time RAF has tried to book this fight<\/a>. Following that wrestling showdown, Romero can focus on his shift to the \u201csweet science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Whether or not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/411195\/ufc-legend-anderson-silva-to-start-the-process-of-becoming-a-california-police-officer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Silva<\/a> will be interested remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following his victory over Woodley, \u201cThe Spider\u201d once again campaigned for an \u201cAll American\u201d trilogy. That would give&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,128793,82,702],"class_list":["post-362233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-ncaa-wrestling-news-and-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}