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'''Chris Weidman''' (born June 17, 1984) is an American ] in the ], where he is the ]. As of January 17, 2014, he is #6 in official UFC pound-for-pound rankings <ref></ref> andrankedasthe#1middleweightin the worldby].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sherdog.com/news/rankings/4/Sherdogs-Official-Mixed-Martial-Arts-Rankings-61597|title=Sherdog'sOfficialMixedMartialArtsRankings|date=January5, 2014|publisher=sherdog.com}}</ref>
'''Chris Weidman''' (born June 17, 1984) is an American ] in the ], where he is the ]. As of January 17, 2014, he is #6 in official UFC pound-for-pound rankings <ref>], New York, the second of three children. He has German and Irish ancestry.<ref>http://www.ufc.com/news/The-Chris-Weidman-Diet?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it</ref> He and his older brother were involved in numerous athletic activities. Chris started wrestling at a very young age. With hirags natural athleticism he mastered the sport very quickly. He attended ] on ] where he was a ] and New York state wrestling champion. He was an All-American in Cadet Freestyle and Greco Roman.
==Early life==
Chris Weidman was born in ], New York, the second of three children. He has German and Irish ancestry.<ref>http://www.ufc.com/news/The-Chris-Weidman-Diet?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it</ref> He and his older brother were involved in numerous athletic activities. Chris started wrestling at a very young age. With his natural athleticism he mastered the sport very quickly. He attended ] on ] where he was a ] and New York state wrestling champion. He was an All-American in Cadet Freestyle and Greco Roman.
A standout in college, he earned ] wrestling honors twice at ] before transferring to ]. He became the first junior college wrestler in history to be a NYS Collegiate Champion. At Hofstra, he became a two-time ] All-American, placing 3rd at the ] tournament his senior year. Weidman graduated from ] with a bachelor's degree in ].<ref name="UFCBio">{{cite web|url=http://www.ufc.com/fighter/Chris-Weidman|title=Chris Weidman UFC profile|accessdate=2011-03-04|publisher=UFC.com}}</ref>
A standout in college, he earned ] wrestling honors twice at ] before transferring to ]. He became the first junior college wrestler in history to be a NYS Collegiate Champion. At Hofstra, he became a two-time ] All-American, placing 3rd at the ] tournament his senior year. Weidman graduated from ] with a bachelor's degree in ].<ref name="UFCBio">{{cite web|url=http://www.ufc.com/fighter/Chris-Weidman|title=Chris Weidman UFC profile|accessdate=2011-03-04|publisher=UFC.com}}</ref>
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===UFC Middleweight Champion===
===UFC Middleweight Champion===
After nearly a year out of competition due to injury and ], on July 6, 2013, Weidman faced ] for the UFC Middleweight title in ] before a crowd of 12,399 spectators at the ].<ref name=ESPNUFC162>{{cite news|last=Okamoto|first=Brett|title=Ego and Weidman conspire against Silva|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/blog/mma/post/_/id/18551/age-ego-and-weidman-conspire-against-silva|accessdate=July 11, 2013|newspaper=]|date=July 7, 2013}}</ref><ref name="UFC162">{{cite web|url=http://www.mmamania.com/2013/3/6/4071678/anderson-silva-vs-chris-weidman-official-for-ufc-162-headliner-on|title=Anderson Silva vs Chris Weidman official for UFC 162 headliner on July 6 in Las Vegas|publisher=MMAmania.com|author=Brian Hemminger|date=2013-03-06|accessdate=2013-03-06}}</ref> Bookmakers rated Weidman a 2-1 underdog;<ref>{{cite web|last=McCarter|first=Nathan|title=Silva vs. Weidman Betting Odds and Final Prediction|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1695293-silva-vs-weidman-betting-odds-and-final-prediction|work=BleacherReport.com|publisher=]|accessdate=11 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.5thround.com/149274/ufc-162-silva-vs-weidman-complete-betting-odds|last=Ngo|first=Tom|title='UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman' Complete Betting Odds|date=2013-07-06|accessdate=2013-07-16}}</ref> however, numerous pundits and fighters including long reigning ], ], picked Weidman to upset the long reigning ]:<ref>{{cite news|last=Pugmire|first=Lance|title=UFC challenger Chris Weidman vowing to stun Anderson Silva|url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-ufc-weidman-silva-20130702,0,6213387.story|accessdate=11 July 2013|newspaper=]|date=July 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Deibert|first=Dave|title=UFC 162: Chris Weidman hot pick to upset Anderson Silva|url=http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/mma/Chris+Weidman+pick+upset+Anderson+Silva/8618177/story.html|accessdate=July 11, 2013|newspaper=] |date=July 4, 2013}}</ref>
After nearly a year out of competition due to injury and ], on July 6, 2013, Weidman faced ] for the UFC Middleweight title in ] before a crowd of 12,399 spectators at the ].<ref name=ESPNUFC162>{{cite news|last=Okamoto|first=Brett|title=Ego and Weidman conspire against Silva|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/blog/mma/post/_/id/18551/age-ego-and-weidman-conspire-against-silva|accessdate=July 11, 2013|newspaper=]|date=July 7, 2013}}</ref><ref name="UFC162">{{cite web|url=http://www.mmamania.com/2013/3/6/4071678/anderson-silva-vs-chris-weidman-official-for-ufc-162-headliner-on|title=Anderson Silva vs Chris Weidman official for UFC 162 headliner on July 6 in Las Vegas|publisher=MMAmania.com|author=Brian Hemminger|date=2013-03-06|accessdate=2013-03-06}}</ref> Bookmakers rated Weidman a 2-1 underdog;<ref>{{cite web|last=McCarter|first=Nathan|title=Silva vs. Weidman Betting Odds and Final Prediction|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1695293-silva-vs-weidman-betting-odds-and-final-prediction|work=BleacherReport.com|publisher=]|accessdate=11 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.5thround.com/149274/ufc-162-silva-vs-weidman-complete-betting-odds|last=Ngo|first=Tom|title='UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman' Complete Betting Odds|date=2013-07-06|accessdate=2013-07-16}}</ref> however, numerous pundits and fighters including long reigning ], ], picked Weidman to upset the long reigning ]:<ref>{{cite news|last=Pugmire|first=Lance|title=UFC challenger Chris Weidman vowing to stun Anderson Silva|url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-ufc-weidman-silva-20130702,0,6213387.story|accessdate=11 July 2013|newspaper=]|date=July 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Deibert|first=Dave|title=UFC 162: Chris Weidman hot pick to upset Anderson Silva|url=http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/mma/Chris+Weidman+pick+upset+Anderson+Silva/8618177/story.html|accessdate=July 11, 2013|newspaper=] |date=July 4, 2013}}</ref>
<blockquote>“I believe it's a bad matchup for Anderson Silva. Very bad, style wise. Anderson’s weaknesses are Weidman's strengths. I’ve trained with Weidman, and his wrestlingisonanotherlevel.Notonlyis Chris Weidman goingtobeatAndersonSilva,Ibelievehe’sgoing to finishAnderson.Ibelieveit'snotgoingtolasttoolong,thisfight.Thisfightwillshockalot of people.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>“I believe it's a bad matchup for Anderson Silva. Very bad, style wise. Anderson’s weaknesses are Weidman's strengths. I’ve trained with Weidman, and his klasoigvbsdvsdmnkSvWeidman's victory, ] proclaimed July seventeenth "Chris Weidman Day".<ref>{{cite news|last=Helwani|first=Ariel|title=Nassau County to proclaim July 17 as 'Chris Weidman Day'|url=http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/7/16/4529136/nassau-county-to-proclaim-july-17-as-chris-weidman-day|accessdate=16 July 2013|newspaper=MMA Fighting|date=16 July 2013}}</ref> ] website ] also declared Weidman's knockout of Anderson Silva as “Knockout of the Year” for 2013.<ref>http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/1/Sherdogcoms-2013-Knockout-of-the-Year-61593</ref>
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As Georges St-Pierre predicted, Weidman knocked out Silva early in the second round with another "Knockout of the Night" performance to become the new ] ]. In the first round, Weidman took down the champion onto the canvas to apply some solid ]. The second round saw Silva clowning around — taunting and mocking Weidman — until he was caught and dropped by Weidman's left hook which was followed with punches to the grounded Silva — rendering him unconscious. The loss to Weidman was Silva's first in the UFC and ended his 7 year, 17 fight undefeated streak. The KO victory gave Weidman the distinction of being the first and only person to have ever knocked out Silva in a ] match.<ref>{{cite web|title=Weidman Beats Silva to Win UFC Middleweight Title TITLE| url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/wiedman-beats-silva-win-ufc-middleweight-title|publisher=AP|accessdate=July 7, 2013}}</ref> In honor of Weidman's victory, ] proclaimed July seventeenth "Chris Weidman Day".<ref>{{cite news|last=Helwani|first=Ariel|title=Nassau County to proclaim July 17 as 'Chris Weidman Day'|url=http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/7/16/4529136/nassau-county-to-proclaim-july-17-as-chris-weidman-day|accessdate=16 July 2013|newspaper=MMA Fighting|date=16 July 2013}}</ref> ] website ] also declared Weidman's knockout of Anderson Silva as “Knockout of the Year” for 2013.<ref>http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/1/Sherdogcoms-2013-Knockout-of-the-Year-61593</ref>
On July 13, 2013, the UFC President, ], announced that Weidman will rematch Silva for his first title defense at ].<ref>{{cite news|last=Chiappetta|first=Mike|title=Chris Weidman vs. Anderson Silva rematch signed for Dec. 28 in Las Vegas|url=http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/7/13/4521062/chris-weidman-vs-anderson-silva-rematch-signed-for-dec-28-in-las-vegas|accessdate=July 13, 2013|newspaper=MMA Fighting|date=July 13, 2013}}</ref> Silva once again opened as the betting favorite.<ref>{{cite news|last=Chiappetta|first=Mike|title=Anderson Silva opens as slight favorite in potential rematch with Chris Weidman|url=http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/7/9/4508420/anderson-silva-opens-as-slight-favorite-in-potential-rematch-with|accessdate=13 July 2013|newspaper=MMA Fighting|date=9 July 2013}}</ref>
On July 13, 2013, the UFC President, ], announced that Weidman will rematch Silva for his first title defense at ].<ref>{{cite news|last=Chiappetta|first=Mike|title=Chris Weidman vs. Anderson Silva rematch signed for Dec. 28 in Las Vegas|url=http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/7/13/4521062/chris-weidman-vs-anderson-silva-rematch-signed-for-dec-28-in-las-vegas|accessdate=July 13, 2013|newspaper=MMA Fighting|date=July 13, 2013}}</ref> Silva once again opened as the betting favorite.<ref>{{cite news|last=Chiappetta|first=Mike|title=Anderson Silva opens as slight favorite in potential rematch with Chris Weidman|url=http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/7/9/4508420/anderson-silva-opens-as-slight-favorite-in-potential-rematch-with|accessdate=13 July 2013|newspaper=MMA Fighting|date=9 July 2013}}</ref>
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Chris Weidman (born June 17, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he is the UFC Middleweight Champion. As of January 17, 2014, he is #6 in official UFC pound-for-pound rankings Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). He and his older brother were involved in numerous athletic activities. Chris started wrestling at a very young age. With hirags natural athleticism he mastered the sport very quickly. He attended Baldwin Senior High School on Long Island where he was a Nassau County and New York state wrestling champion. He was an All-American in Cadet Freestyle and Greco Roman.
A standout in college, he earned All-American wrestling honors twice at Nassau Community College before transferring to Hofstra. He became the first junior college wrestler in history to be a NYS Collegiate Champion. At Hofstra, he became a two-time Division I All-American, placing 3rd at the NCAA tournament his senior year. Weidman graduated from Hofstra University with a bachelor's degree in psychology.
Training
Weidman met Gabriel “Monsta” Toribio while attending Hofstra who invited Weidman to come to Matt and Nick Serra's BJJ Academy to help some of the fighters with their wrestling. Weidman also took some jiu-jitsu classes and within three months he competed in and won The East Coast Grappler's Quest in his weight class and the Absolute Division with all 13 matches ending in submissions.
With full-time assistant coaching and graduate school at Hofstra, jiu-jitsu had to be put on hold for a while. While coaching, Weidman trained for the Olympic trials. When his dream was not attained, Weidman had to decide if he wanted to continue training for the world teams and Olympics or give MMA a shot. Toribio brought Weidman to Ray Longo's MMA Academy and introduced Weidman to Longo. With his noticeable technique and skills, Weidman was encouraged to train full-time to fight.
"For such a novice fighter to be so aggressive and technical in a pure grappling competition against one of the world's best speaks volumes to what a great MMA middleweight Chris Weidman may become."
Weidman made his MMA debut as a professional representing Team Serra-Longo in February 2009 in Louis Neglia's Ring of Combat 23. He fought as a Middleweight against Reubem Lopes, whom he submitted quickly via kimura, at 1:35 of the first round. Two months later at Ring of Combat 24, he stopped Mike Stewart with punches in the first round.
"His combination of gravity-defying throws, an ironclad base and scarily preternatural grappling skills has already made him one of North America's premier prospects."
—Tomas Rios on Chris Weidman in 2010
In his third bout Weidman won the Ring of Combat middleweight title on September 24, 2010 by defeating Uriah Hall at Ring of Combat 31 via punches in the first round. Weidman defended the ROC Middleweight Championship on December 3, 2010 at Ring of Combat 33 with an impressive victory over Valdir Araujo via unanimous decision. By this point Weidman was being called "one of the most highly-touted blue chip middleweight prospects ever". Weidman was offered contracts by numerous organizations, but Weidman elected to wait until the UFC offered him a contract, which he quickly accepted.
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Weidman made his UFC debut against Alessio Sakara on March 3, 2011, at UFC Live: Sanchez vs. Kampmann, replacing an injured Rafael Natal. Weidman who took the fight on two weeks' notice and who was also nursing a rib injury, won a unanimous decision, scoring a decisive 30–27 on all three judges' scorecards.
Weidman faced Jesse Bongfeldt on June 11, 2011 at UFC 131, replacing an injured Court McGee. Weidman defeated Bongfeldt via first round standing guillotine choke, earning Submission of the Night honors.
Weidman defeated Demian Maia by unanimous decision on January 28, 2012 at UFC on Fox 2. The fight was initially announced as a split decision but the judges actually scored it as a unanimous decision, clarified by UFC President Dana White in a tweet. Weidman replaced Michael Bisping on eleven days' notice after Mark Muñoz was forced out of his fight with Chael Sonnen. Bisping was chosen to take Munoz's place in the co-main event.
"I want Anderson Silva. Every time I've had a full training camp, I've gotten a finish. Give me a full training camp and I'd love a shot at the man, Anderson Silva. I really think I could do pretty good. So give me a shot, please."
Weidman faced Mark Muñoz on July 11, 2012 at UFC on Fuel TV: Munoz vs. Weidman. Weidman dominated Munoz throughout first round using his wrestling skills. In the second round, he knocked out Munoz with a counter elbow to the forehead followed by ground and pound to a rocked Munoz, which awarded Weidman "Knockout of the Night" honors. After the fight, Weidman expressed a desire to fight Anderson Silva and become the middleweight title holder.
Weidman was expected to face Tim Boetsch on December 29, 2012 at UFC 155. However, he pulled out of the bout due to an injury and was replaced by Constantinos Philippou.
“I believe it's a bad matchup for Anderson Silva. Very bad, style wise. Anderson’s weaknesses are Weidman's strengths. I’ve trained with Weidman, and his klasoigvbsdvsdmnkSvWeidman's victory, Nassau County proclaimed July seventeenth "Chris Weidman Day". Mixed Martial Arts website Sherdog also declared Weidman's knockout of Anderson Silva as “Knockout of the Year” for 2013.
On July 13, 2013, the UFC President, Dana White, announced that Weidman will rematch Silva for his first title defense at UFC 168. Silva once again opened as the betting favorite.
On December 28, 2013, Chris Weidman successfully defended his title in a rematch against Anderson Silva at UFC 168. In contrast to their first fight in UFC 162, there was no overt showboating by Silva, yet Weidman still had Silva in trouble early in the first round by dropping him — while in the clinch — with a solid right hook to the side of the head — followed by a barrage of punches that almost finished the fight. In spite of Weidman’s onslaught, Silva managed to pull guard, regain his composure and bloodied Weidman's nose with some elbows and hammer-fist punches off his back, but it was Weidman who got the better of the exchange by controlling the top position for the remainder of the round and striking Silva with the harder punches and elbows. At the start of the second round, Silva attacked Weidman with a series of kicks including a heavy inside low kick that Weidman defended with a perfectly executed check — using his left knee — that snapped Silva's left fibia and tibia on contact. Silva immediately fell to the mat, screaming in agony and clutching his broken leg — forcing referee Herb Dean to stop the fight 1:16 into the second round and give Weidman the victory by TKO. Tellingly, low kicks were some of Silva's most effective strikes in their first encounter, which led Weidman to focus on defending them for the rematch.
"That was the number one thing I got hit with in the first fight, so I did work a lot against guys with good kicks and was working on checking them a lot. I did think that if he's going to go that hard on kicks, as he usually does, if I catch it on my knee it could really hurt him. But it's still crazy how that happened."
“My trainer, Ray Longo, actually broke a guy’s leg like that in the gym by putting the knee right on that shin when he kicked, just by following up slowly, It’s not really going shin-to-shin, but getting your knee on the shin. I’ve done it in sparring with some hard kickers to let them know not to kick me anymore. Their legs didn’t break, but they would either take a minute to walk it off or they wouldn’t be kicking me as much. It’s something I’ve definitely been working on, thanks to Longo.”
Weidman is now expected to defend his belt against Vitor Belfort at UFC 173. Weidman opened as a 2-to-1 betting favorite.
Personal life
On October 24, 2012, Weidman's house was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy. He subsequently volunteered to help rebuild Sandy victims' homes via the non-profit group Staten Strong.
Weidman is a practicing Christian. and married to Marivi, with whom he has two children.
