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Sonnen targeting fight with Jon Jones or GSP

ESPN staff
December 23, 2011
Chael Sonnen is finished with Anderson Silva © UFC
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Chael Sonnen has made an outrageous claim that he will use his No. 1 contender status in the middleweight division to force the UFC into giving him a crack at either Jon Jones or Georges St-Pierre.

Sonnen is annoyed that Anderson Silva has not stepped up to a potential rematch, despite Sonnen's best efforts to make the fight happen. Instead, the American must fight his friend Mark Munoz at UFC on Fox 2, a situation he would rather have avoided.

Victory is largely expected to earn Sonnen a second bout with Silva, but he no longer wants that contest. Instead, Sonnen insists he will go chasing either welterweight or light-heavyweight titles.

"I'm done with the guy. He and I have no business. This guy is cold product, man, he's like jheri curls and Pepsi clear," Sonnen told Off the Record. "He's yesterday's news.

"I destroyed this guy back when he was tough. That was years ago. He's so far over the hill and past his prime, it's not worth talking about.

"I'm going to become the No. 1 contender on January 28. But despite what you may think, I'm not going to use that voucher to fight Anderson Silva.

"I'll be looking at [Junior] Dos Santos, [Jon] Jones, and possibly [Georges] St-Pierre. But that, I will take that voucher to Dana White and I will pick one of those three guys. My time with Anderson is done."

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