Wanderlei Silva Likely To Return at UFC 105 in Manchester
By: Chad Edward Posted On: August 8, 2009 at 9:51amFighters.com’s ninth-ranked light heavyweight “Axe Murderer” Wanderlei Silva (33-10-1) will likely return to the Octagon at UFC 105 in Manchester 14 November, announced UFC President Dana White Friday.
Silva lost a UD to former UFC middleweight champ “Ace” Rich Franklin (26-4) in 195-pound catch weight matchup at UFC 99 in Cologne 13 June, rendering him 1-3 in the Octagon and 1-5 in his last six fights.
Since returning to the big show after PRIDE’s collapse in 2007, Silva has had difficulty maintaining 205 pounds, though in PRIDE he fought as heavy as 220-pounds in the Open Weight Grand Prix. After his loss to Franklin, Silva announced he will debut as a middleweight in his next matchup.
Rumors floated that Silva would be matched versus middleweight “Count” Michael Bisping (17-2) at 105, but Bisping’s camp denied them.
Bisping will certainly fight on the card, probably in the main event, and Fighters.com confirmed last week that welterweight “Irish Hand Grenade” Marcus Davis (16-5) thinks he’ll fight in Manchester.
Welterweight prospect “Outlaw” Dan Hardy (22-6) and The Ultimate Fighter 9 champions welterweight “Lightning” James Wilks (4-2) and lightweight “Real Deal” Ross Pearson (14-5-1) have all been rumored for Manchester too. All three are Brits.
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Bisping has to work on his ring strategy. He fought streight into the hands of henderson, and got knocked out for the privelidge. pls dont think that i am ripping bisping i think that a loss with a knockout means when he comes back you are going to see one hell of a newly conditioned fighter !!!!!!!
If you don’t want to rip Bisping, I will a little. He and UFC matchmaker evidently started believing their own hype because Bisping was destined for just what happend as soon as the ink was on the the contract to fight Hendo’. They might as well have served Bisping’s head on a tee. He’s a good fighter, but overhyped and needs a lot of work and experience. To leap from Chris Leben to Dan Henderson was just stupid for Bisping, his management, and the UFC. It wasn’t as if he even dominated Leben.