Filed under: News , UFC Two-and-a-half years is a long time for a memory to remain, so it may be difficult to think back to just how shocking Chris Weidman ’s UFC 162 win over Anderson Silva truly was. Take yourself back to that moment. It was July 2013, and Weidman – like everyone else at the time – was an underdog heading into his meeting with “The Spider.” But Weidman brought with him an incredibly unwavering confidence, and nothing Silva could do inside the cage deterred that belief. And so Weidman stood firm in the face of the man many consider the greatest ever, and he delivered a stunning second-round knockout to claim the UFC middleweight title. At Saturday’s UFC 194 event, Weidman (13-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) faces Luke Rockhold (14-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) in hopes of securing his fourth consecutive defense of the belt
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Ahead of UFC 194, relive the night Chris Weidman shocked the world – MMA Junkie