As far as apologies go, Anderson Silva’s wasn’t exactly a major one. But a sorry is a sorry, and “The Spider” certainly took a step back from recent comments that were critical of the UFC.

Silva (33-7 MMA, 16-3 UFC) earlier this month vented about the UFC’s treatment of him after his loss to light heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier (18-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) in a non-title fight at UFC 200. Silva said he didn’t get enough respect for stepping in on extreme short notice (hear him discuss that decision in the video above) to face Cormier when Jon Jones was removed for a potential anti-doping violation. He said his return to the UFC because of that would be “complicated.”

But over the weekend, TMZ ran into Silva in Los Angeles – and the former long-reigning middleweight champ and longtime pound-for-pound king offered up an apology to White.

“You know, definitely I need to say sorry for everything that happened with the UFC because Dana White is Dana White,” Silva told TMZ.

Silva’s apology was in response to White’s side of the story. This past week, White told Jason Whitlock on FS1’s “Speak for Yourself” that Silva was one of the last fighters on the UFC’s roster to believe he wasn’t treated properly. (White’s comments begin at the 8:34 mark below.)

“There’s probably some guys that could come out and say they felt like they’ve been mistreated,” White said. “Anderson Silva is not one of them. That is a guy who has been far from mistreated. Far from mistreated. (He has) no case (to say he was mistreated).”

Earlier this month, Silva told UOL he was upset with the way he and other Brazilian fighters had been treated by the company.

“I haven’t even received a ‘thank you’ from Dana (White), or Lorenzo (Fertitta) after the last fight,” Silva told Brazilian news outlet UOL. “Of course, I was the one who wanted to fight, who took the bout, but I know my worth, my importance. I was very disappointed with the lack of respect that the UFC has been treating the Brazilian athletes with. I’m an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don’t get, or have got, people’s due respect. This has made me very upset, sad, and disappointed with the UFC.”

Although Silva didn’t mention him by name, he no doubt was referring to the current spat between former featherweight champ Jose Aldo and the UFC. Aldo (26-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) has asked for his release from the promotion after being denied a title unifier against champ Conor McGregor (20-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC), who is now set to meet lightweight titleholder Eddie Alvarez (28-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) at UFC 205.

“I didn’t talk to them or anyone else,” Silva said of UFC President Dana White and former CEO Lorenzo Fertitta. “They even offered me to be on standby in case something happened to (Michael) Bisping or (Dan) Henderson (before Saturday’s UFC 204 in England). But the most absurd thing is how it got to me. They didn’t even talk to me – my representatives passed it along. I’m not a message guy. After everything I’ve done, I have to be on standby for a fight I won? I thought it was a little unpleasant.”

Silva’s loss to Cormier was his fourth loss in five appearances. A decision over Nick Diaz after gruesomely breaking his leg in a title rematch with now ex-champ Chris Weidman was changed to a no-contest when he tested positive for multiple performance enhancers and was later suspended for one year. The former champ, who this year turned 41, hasn’t won since a second-round TKO of Stephan Bonnar four years ago at UFC 153. Once a lock at No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA middleweight rankings, he’s now an honorable mention.

And in his original comments to UOL, he mentioned his former pound-for-pound status as a reason to be upset.

“I will say it again: I’m very disappointed with the way they’ve been treating me, I’m very saddened by all of this,” he said. “I wasn’t the one who said I was the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Dana White said it. Maybe he said it to promote his event, or because he really felt that way. We’ll never know the truth.”

But at least for now, it seems Silva is doing something Aldo isn’t planning on, for now: backing down.

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