Silva is no pirate parrot

Okay, this is weird. Yesterday I posted a blurb about UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva’s boxing aspirations and how he wants to fight Roy Jones Jr. Old news, I thought. Very old. But it was an excuse to put up this clip of Silva boxing that I’d come across.

Except today I come across a story on the Fighters Only site that makes the Silva vs. Jones story very new.

“It is undoubted that I will face Roy Jones,” he’s quoted as saying. “We have talked too much, have signed some contracts and we want to make it the sooner the better. It’s not for money or spotlight, it’s for my desire. I watch Roy Jones since he competed as an amateur and in the Olympic Games. I’m looking forward to this fight to put in the ring everything I know, to show my students in the future that I understand what I may say over this or that and don’t seem a pirate parrot.”

Okay, I’m not sure what he means by “pirate parrot.” I’m pretty sure that’s more of a translation issue from Portuguese to English. As for indicating that some contracts have been signed, who knows? Sounds kind of hinky.

But Silva’s desire is certainly there. He’s got four fights on his UFC contract including his UFC 101 bout with Forrest Griffin, so any boxing match is still a year-and-a-half or more away. And that’s not considering the infamous “champion’s clause” in his contract which enables the UFC to extend his contract indefinitely and at their discretion if he is the champion at the end of his existing contract. And I can’t imagine Silva being allowed to just walk away from the UFC after just four more fights.