Chris Weidman worried Vitor Belfort won't make for UFC 184

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UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman was straight to the point when he said that he was worried that Vitor Belfort won't be able to make it for UFC 184 on Feb. 28 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Before Belfort would be able to face Weidman inside the octagon he has to face numerous obstacles which include random unannounced drug testing administered by the Nevada Athletic Commission.

He had just finished one but the results are not in yet.

Weidman said "I'm worried about whether he's going to get drug tested, then when I found out he did, I'm crapping my pants the past two weeks, hoping he's still fighting me. That's the guy I want to fight. That's what the fight we've been talking about for a year now. That's the fight I want. I'll be disgusted if something happens."

Many have been looking forward to this fight. It has been going on and off and when finally it was given the date, the news of random drug testing came in.

Weidman added "When it was first lined up, I had a feeling it wasn't going to happen. I had a feeling something bad would happen. It was around the time of the whole TRT thing. I never really got too excited about the fight. Then after the [Lyoto] Machida fight, I started thinking about him again."

When Weidman was prompted whether Belfort's PED and testing issues will be the biggest part of his legacy, he could not directly say yes but answered "I don't want to take everything away he's ever accomplished. But if you look at him in some of his fights, it's kind of crazy, what human being looks like that naturally? Go into your own logic and figure that out on your own. But I'm not going to be the guy who victimizes him and says he's juicing, because I don't really know, I wasn't there with him getting tested or watching him getting injected. However, I think in the last couple fights where he got caught, and why was he in Brazil fighting, bigger than ever, there was some weird stuff going on in those three knockouts he had."

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