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Chael Sonnen suffered an agonising defeat to Anderson Silva at UFC 117 © Getty Images

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Chael Sonnen seems intent on keeping his name alive in the UFC during his suspension from the sport, claiming his fight with Anderson Silva should have been stopped at least five times before Silva snatched victory at the death.

Sonnen is currently suspended due to non-disclosure of medicine use, but that has not stopped him having his say on middleweight rival and champion Silva.

Following the Brazilian's stunning knockout victory over Vitor Belfort at UFC 126, Sonnen labelled Silva a "chump" for using the only weapon - the front kick - that could have surprised Sonnen in an inevitable rematch.

Reflecting on his loss to Silva at UFC 117, when the champion suffered a four-round beating before winning with a late submission, Sonnen's latest claim is that the referee should have awarded him the fight way before the eventual conclusion.

"I hit Anderson Silva with more unanswered, undefended strikes than any fighter has landed on an opponent in the history of combat sports. Go count 'em up, Pointdexters," he told PaulLazenby.com

"I struck him more times than Quasimodo struck the church bell at Notre Dame. I hit him so many times that I stopped fighting because my fists bouncing off his melon were ringing so loudly that it sounded like a bell, and I thought that the round, and the fight, were over. Actually, that's not true - I actually stopped out of mercy and boredom.

"God knows, if he hit me with a TENTH of the undefended shots I hit him with, the ref would have pulled him off me faster than a meth-head pulls the foil off a dozen shoplifted Dristan tablets. I hit him enough to have the fight stopped FIVE TIMES, in FIVE separate rounds.

"Therefore, I consider myself 5-1 against him, even allowing for his tainted triangle which only came after I thought the fight was over, and I had already turned the side of his head into a bowl of porridge with my fists."

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