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Chat recap: Weidman wants Silva

Chris Weidman, left, punches Mark Munoz during the

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Vitor Belfort would like to fight Chris Weidman.

"Muñoz has no guard, he's not a jiu-jitsu fighter," Belfort told Tatame.com. That's a wrestler vs. wrestler match-up, who got to the top position would win. He was tagged, that's it. I don't care what [Weidman's] gonna do. I know what I'm gonna do: go for the knockout or the submission."

Weidman, from Baldwin, didn't take...

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