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Wanderlei Silva calls Chael Sonnen ‘the biggest joke in the MMA world’

Wanderlei Silva skipped two trips to the United States to promote his upcoming fight with Chael Sonnen at Bellator 180, but guarantees he’s 100 percent ready to face his rival inside the cage.

“The Axe Murderer”, who hasn’t fought since his 2014 victory over Brian Stann in the UFC, told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that he didn’t fly to California last week because he wasn’t “feeling well”, but admitted that he had a special reason not to go to New York for the promotion’s press conference back in March.