Chad Ochocinco Calls Out Anderson Silva: NFL Vs MMA in the Works
By Sean Farrell
While countless NFL superstars have spoken on their offseason MMA workouts, none have been bold enough or dumb enough for that matter to actually challenge a professional mixed martial artist to actual physical combat. Leave it to Chad Johnson or Chado Ochocinco, which ever he is this year, as the first one to open his mouth and call out the best in the sport, current UFC middleweight champion and pound for pound king Anderson “the Spider” Silva.
As his Chad’s place of employment is engaging in moronic heated labor talks that could shut down the NFL, Chad took to his Twitter account to assert his desire to challenge Anderson Silva to a fight. Then a YouTube video surfaced where Chad reveals his complete game plan for the planet’s best 185-pound fighter as he said: “I won’t [get hurt], because I’m not going to go to the ground, I know if I fight Anderson, I have to fight him standing up. I’m quicker than him. I know he’s very good at what he does, but don’t be fooled. I’m one of the elite athletes in the NFL. I’m very fast, very quick. I just can’t go to the ground. And I can’t be within his reach, either. So maybe I’ll just run around the ring the whole damn time. Man, I’m crazy enough to get in there, too. That’s the funny thing. I’m crazy enough to get in there.”
While the NFL and the Players Association have entered into the 13th day of labor negotiations, Chad is looking to setup life after football. Although his challenge was made mostly out of tongue-in-cheek, if any amateur is wild enough to step into the Octagon with Silva, it would be the man that legally changed his last name from ‘Johnson’ to his playing number spelled out in Spanish (well kind of spelled out in Spanish).
Whether or not he was serious it got our attention and maybe the NFL is going to lockout and there will be an influx of NFL athletes into mixed martial arts. The positive to the NFL locking out is MMA will explode with no other sport able to compete with the contact aspect of MMA.