Fighters.com’s Middleweight Champion “The Spider” Anderson Silva (22-4) will defend his UFC title against “The Predator” Patrick Cote (13-4) in Rosemont, IL, near Chicago 25 October, the UFC announced Sunday.
‘‘There is no better way to introduce UFC to Chicago than with the championship fight between Anderson Silva and Patrick Cote,’’ UFC President Dana White said.
Silva made his debut as a light heavyweight 19 July with a 61-second knockout of “Sandman” James Irvin (14-5).
Cote also won his last fight, a split decision over “Cachorrao” Ricardo Almeida (9-3) 5 July.
Fifth-ranked “Thunder” Yushin Okami (26-4), who has a win via disqualification over Silva, was expected to be next in line for the title shot, but broke his hand during training.
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This fight is going to rock!
I can’t wait
Welcome UFC to chicago
Pretty awesome
Cote has a real chance of pulling this out
My money is on him
This is sweet
Awesome
Silva has it in the bag
We’ll see
The UFC waited until Okami broke his hand so they could make this fight. At least Cote is a striker. A change of pace from the grapplers Silva has slaughtered, though I don’t expect the result to be much different.
The “Predator” has just become the prey to “The Spider”!Silva does to Cote what he did to Leben in his UFC debut!Too bad for Okami,that would have been a way better fight!
I actually thought the same thing about the similarity between Cote and Leben.
Cote doesn’t deserve a title shot, it probably should’ve been thales leites, but you know the “no english” clause in the ufc
Cote’s Frenglish isn’t too smooth either. Come on, you don’t think it’s cute when the foreign fighters promise to “do a good fight”?
Cote can punch but looked like shit in his last fight at Ufc 86, that fight was boring and frustrating for me to watch! He is a hardass don’t get me wrong but no match for Silva!
It’s probably easy to look like shit versus Almeida, worry about getting one your limbs snapped off or trachea crushed the whole time.