Anderson Silva shocked the sports world yesterday when he tested positive for two illegal steroids. So the question remains: what does Chael Sonnen, Silva’s most notable rival, think about the controversy.

“If he did this, I would encourage him and anybody else, much like me, just come out and say you did it,” Sonnen said today on TSN’s “Off the Record.” “The door is still open to come out and just tell us what happened. Say, ‘Listen, it was still in my system. I’m busted. I’m sorry.’ Lay it out, fade to black, and roll the credits.”

Sonnen thinks that, if guilty, Silva should come clean and admit he did it:

“He might also be of the mind that he didn’t do it. Let’s let him work through that. I wasn’t there. I can tell you, the lab that was involved that did this answers to one person, and that is Sen. John McCain. This is a lab funded by the United States government. If someone were to come in and say this lab got it wrong, this lab is going to defend itself vigorously. It is not worth the fight.”“I can tell you, I wish he wouldn’t have said anything yet,” Sonnen said. “He needs to put a little time between – let me talk about me, and not Anderson. I wanted to come clean. I wanted to tell everything I can, but when you’re confronted as a human being with shame, when you know you’re wrong, it’s very difficult to fully express everything. Now I eventually got there, but I’ll tell you first hand it took me a while. My first reaction was, ‘Hey, this is my business, and I don’t want to talk about it.’ I came through it, and I think if Anderson puts some time in between, he might change his stance.”