Anderson Silva wants to compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, but some taekwondo athletes weren’t happy with those news.
The former UFC middleweight champion issued a letter to the president of the Brazilian Taekwondo Federation (CBTKD), Carlos Fernandes, petitioning to compete at next year’s Olympics, and the possibility of "The Spider" entering the Olympics without going through the tryouts pissed off some taekwondo fighters.
CBTKD president Carlos Fernandes will have a meeting Silva on Wednesday, and both are expected to hold a press conference later that day. Fernandes called Silva competing at the Olympics a "magnificent possibility".