It turns out that Lyoto Machida wasn’t the only one to accept an offer to replace injured UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman – only to have Vitor Belfort turn down the fight. Gegard Mousasi (36-5-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) got the call from the UFC, as well. The offer came on the heels of Mousasi’s first-round TKO win over Dan Henderson (30-13 MMA, 7-7 UFC) at UFC on FOX 14 on Jan. 24. The win over Henderson was Mousasi’s first fight since a September 2014 loss to Ronaldo Souza at UFC Fight Night 50. Getting back on the winning side of things was big for Mousasi, and it left him needing time to think things over when the call came in to replace Weidman (12-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC), who had to recently pull out of a planned UFC 184 middleweight title defense against Vitor Belfort (24-10 MMA, 13-6 UFC) on Feb
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Champ Weidman ‘pissed off’ at ‘juicehead’ Belfort, who also turned down Mousasi – MMA Junkie