Chris Weidman's next fight may still be months away, but it things have heated up as "All-American" responds to Vitor Belfort. The reigning UFC middleweight champ has declared that he wants to "completely toy with" his challenger.

Chris Weidman's next fight against Vitor Belfort was originally scheduled for UFC 181 in December, but due to a hand injury, the champion was forced out of the fight.

Late last week, challenger Vitor Belfort questioned Weidman's injury, claiming that "All-American" only wanted to "keep his belt for Christmas."

"Injuries are part of the sport, because we have to train at a high level pace," Belfort told Brazilian news outlet Combate regarding Chris Weidman's next fight. "But hurting himself twice in a row with such little time of career? Are you kidding me? To me, he wanted to keep his belt during the Christmas and that was the only way."

Weidman refused to keep quiet about his challenger's statements, as he revealed his responses in his latest appearance on MMAFighting.com's weekly show, The MMA Hour.

"So this guy is failing drug tests and he has the audacity, the balls to talk junk about me not fighting, and he hasn't fought since November," Weidman said. "What if he gets the belt, what's going to happen there? So it makes no sense, what he said about me. I just laughed it off."

Weidman also revealed his plans on how to go about fighting his third overall title challenger in the UFC.

"I'm going to have a lot of fun with him," Weidman continued. "I am going to go in there and embarrass him. This is not going to be a close fight. I am going to completely embarrass him in that cage."

"I want to completely toy with him," he added. "I want to beat him up standing, throw him on his butt, smack him a couple of times when he's on the ground. Make him almost tap, then let go of it, let him stand up, beat him up on the feet, then take him down again. Just completely make a mockery of him."