Sometimes it’s all about building a fighter’s confidence. Following his UFC 230 open workout, former middleweight champion Chris Weidman spoke in detail to the assembled media about what it’s like to fight coming off a win following his 3-fight losing streak between December 2015 & April 2017.
Weidman picked up a submission over Kelvin Gastelum in July of last year. And although he’s been plagued by an injured thumb in the 15 months since, he’s back healthy and still feels like he’s in a much better place for having won his last fight.
“I went from the highest of highs,” Weidman recalled of his losing streak, “beating Anderson Silva – you know, I was 9-0 fighting him, the greatest of all time.