Aaron Simpson, on “Beatdown,” discussing the idea that anyone who tries to wrestle and control Anderson Silva could be able to pull it off:

“I think it’s ridiculous. You’ve got to have a background like Chael Sonnen to do what Chael Sonnen did. Wrestling just doesn’t come to you in a couple of years. Guys like Josh Koscheck have that, guys like Chael have that … . I started wrestling when I was 4 years old and I’m 37 now. I’ve got 33 years of wrestling. I haven’t competed the last several years in wrestling, but I still wrestle. I’m still around the sport. I still have developed [from] years and years of going to camps and spending my summers at training camps and going up to the Olympic Training Center and wrestling and being in a college environment where we have three-hour practices -- the most grueling practices ever. Once you go through that stuff and that’s in your back pocket -- you can’t make up for it any other way. For someone to think … that’s the type of style they can [beat Silva with], they better have that background. They better have put the time in to think they can go in there and do that.”