MMAWeekly: Talking about Wanderlei, he is going to face a bigger opponent on May 24 in Keith Jardine, maybe a stronger opponent. How do you see that?

Rafael Alejarra: To be honest, Jardine is taller, but I don’t think he is stronger than Wanderlei. When a fighter is bigger, it doesn’t always mean that he is stronger. Wanderlei has good training partners and some excellent sparring, some of them even taller then Jardine. We have planned well.

Alejarra is a personal strength and conditioning trainer for Wanderlei Silva.

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