Report: Silva vs. Sonnen is the next Middleweight Title Fight

[allBthere]

How far away is Belfort from fighting? Will he be available in 2010?

These are the guys I want silva to fight:

Belfor
GSP
Rua/Machida

so fighting Sonnen means that he will only fight one other guy in 2010 (possibly not even that?)

This is not going the way I wanted it to, and now Sonnen could potentially be Silva's last fight in the UFC. We may never get to see Anderson fight any of those guys I mentioned

[Gibbz]

I wish Dana would give us Silva/GSP.

Sonnen doesn't have a prayer against Silva. This fight is just a question of whether Silva will come in determined and give him the Forrest treatment or if he'll dance around.


Belfort would've been better for Silva at 185 anyway. Don't know why they would give him another somewhat weak striker.

[Stumbleweed]

I've seen that belfort will be unavailable until probably November or December. That's definitely too long to wait, but yeah, this Silva-Sonnen fight will probably be another snoozer... not excited about it at all.

[Sandman42]

I'd let Silva try and clean out middleweight first before you start giving him superfights. If he fights Sonnen in August, then that would set up a Belfort fight near December.

[darlon]

If Silva thought Maia disrespected him with the things he said in the prefight interviews (which is complete BS, Maia is one of the nicer fighters and was probably just trying to sell the fight), I'd like to see him prove that same point against Sonnen who's been running his mouth since he beat Marquardt.

[ex carrabba fan]

Silva strikes me as the type of guy that wouldn't give a damn if he was cut from the UFC.

I really don't think he takes that threat seriously, but if he did he still probably doesn't care.

I hope Silva changes his attitude because I want to see him truly challenge himself like he's already said he wants to do against GSP/LHW's etc. I believe he would dominate GSP and then dominate the LHW division outside of Machida because they wouldn't scrap.

Also, Sonnen is about to catch a beatdown. It's apparent Silva pays attention to pre-fight talk.

[Beantown]

I truly hope that Anderson takes every negative thing said about him and turns it into a two minute annihilation of Sonnen.

Unfortunately, I doubt it happens.

[nyj721]

I have think this fight will go 1 of 2 ways

1. Sonnen lays and prays for round 1, then either gets knocked out (via muay thai knees) or choked out in round 2.

2. Sonnen tries to stand up and Silva gives him a knock out of the year candidate.

Hope I get to see Shogun vs Silva sometime in 2010.