The Daniel Cormier Show - Chris Weidman on beating Anderson Silva to become UFC champion, BRUTAL leg injury
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Former UFC champion and MMA legend Chris Weidman sits down with DC in the fourth episode of The Daniel Cormier Show! Cormier and Weidman talk about his two fights against Anderson Silva, and what it was like to both become champion and see such a gruesome leg injury. Chris also reveals his tough childhood with his brother, talking about how he would get physically and emotionally bullied to the point that him and his friends PUNCHED his broken collarbone! Weidman also breaks down his loss to Luke Rockhold and the brutal leg injury HE SUFFERED in the UFC 261 fight against Uriah Hall. Plus DC and Chris relive his road back to the octagon, his early wrestling days in high school and at Hofstra, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | The volume. |
| 0:10.6 | Daniel Kornem. |
| 0:15.9 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Daniel KMier Show, brought to you by Total Wireless, |
| 0:21.3 | the official wireless provider of UFC. They're in your corner with a limited 5G data that will |
| 0:26.8 | not slow you down. Hey, today I'm joined by a special guest. I believe that this man is one of the |
| 0:33.2 | most impressive and resilient champions that our sport has ever seen. |
| 0:37.8 | He is the former middleweight champion, Chris Wyden. |
| 0:40.8 | This is a kid from Baldwin, Long Island. |
| 0:43.8 | He wrestled his way to becoming an All-American at Hostra before he shocked the world, |
| 0:49.7 | and he knocked out Anderson Silva to become UFC champion. |
| 0:53.8 | Chris Wyatman's story is one where it showed he had to battle through career-threatening |
| 0:59.5 | injuries. |
| 1:00.9 | He was able to come back and fight when no one thought he could. |
| 1:04.9 | This dude's built a life defined by grit, his family, his faith, and he's proud of |
| 1:10.6 | all of that, and I am proud to call him one of my friends |
| 1:12.9 | so welcome in my man Chris Wydenman what's up Wyman how you doing brother that was good you like that |
| 1:18.7 | yeah yeah I mean I might let to say there was a teleprompter but you actually went off you went off |
| 1:23.6 | the teleprompter times that's talent most of the time or skill you're a man Chris |
| 1:28.0 | yeah impressed hey I talked a little bit about growing up in Long Island um |
| 1:34.0 | what was that like right because so many people we all have different upbringings obviously |
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