Vitor Belfort slams Wanderlei Silva: “Thinking before speaking is important”

Former UFC light heavyweight champion, Vitor Belfort has entered back into the verbal sparring arena with fellow countryman and bitter rival, Wanderlei Silva this week as their war of words rages on, explaining as far as he’s concerned thinking before speaking is an important consideration.
Speaking via R7.com, Belfort said:

“Be quiet, Wanderlei.”

“The facts are what matter. It was very unpleasant, the way he called me out, how he did it. An athlete of his level speaking that way… that was disrespectful. But his tongue turned back against him, that was bad for him,”

“He challenged me, talked all this foolishness about what would happen and when it was going to happen – then he said he wasn’t prepared!? So he shouldn’t have called me out, he should have stayed quiet. Thinking before speaking is important.”

Belfort won’t be challenging anyone to a fight any time soon after contracting the virus, Hepatitis A over the past week, putting his UFC 133 clash with Yoshihiro Akiyama on August 6^th in Philadelphia at threat. Stay tuned to MMABay for more on this and more as we get it.