Yushin Okami

Former UFC light heavyweight champion turned Middleweight contender, Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort returns to the cage this November.

While speculation ran rapid, including who, when, and where Belfort would fight next, wait no longer–because the Brazilian has ended all speculation via his Twitter.

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It seems that Vitor Belfort’s path to the ufc Middleweight Championship is taking yet another detour. The former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion was tentatively penned as the next challenger to Middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva all the way back in September 2009, when he made his return to the promotion by scoring a huge knockout over former Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin in a catchweight bout. Since then, injuries (both Belfort’s and Silva’s) have ping-ponged this fight back and forth from one event to another. Now it may not even happen. MMAJunkie.com recently reported that Vitor Belfort is moving forward with plans to return in November…but against Yushin Okami. Everything is still pure speculation at this point, since nothing has been officially announced, but here’s what’s known so far.

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Former UFC light heavyweight champion and current middleweight contender Vitor Belfort will be returning to action in November, but against who–who knows.

The news, which was highlighted previously on Fighters.com , where according to Vitor himself on Twitter, “this year I am not going to fight for the title because the champion (UFC Middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva) is hurt but November we will be in action for sure that is what I can say.”

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While Gomi may have picked up his biggest win in recent memory, he also picked up the biggest pay-day of the “ufc Live on Versus 2″ card, held on August 1, last Sunday, in San Diego, Cali.

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The plight of Yushin Okami is familiar to virtually any and all fans of the man: Okami is a man that consistently finds himself hovering around the top of most people’s Middleweight rankings but is virtually absent from any and all discussions about potential challengers to current UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva’s throne. An eight-year veteran of the sport, Okami actually has a better record than current #1 contender and mile-a-minute trash-talker Chael Sonnen. And as always, fans of the man will be more than happy to tell you that Okami was the last person to defeat Anderson Silva, even if it was because Silva threw an illegal kick and got himself disqualified. As Okami heads into his eleventh UFC fight at today’s UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko event, is the time finally right for Silva/Okami 2?

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Fighters.com’s seventh-ranked lightweight “KenFlo” Kenny Florian (12-4) and former PRIDE champion “Fireball Kid” Takanori Gomi (28-6) both made the lightweight limit for their matchup at Fight Night 21 in Charlotte Wednesday night.

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The winner of the co-main event fight that pits “Great” Nate Marquardt (29-8-2) against Chael Sonnen (23-20-1) at UFC 109 will get a title shot according to UFC President Dana White. While I believe Nate deserves a shot at the title I shiver at the thought of Sonnen getting a title shot.

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Fighters.com and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion “Dragon” Lyoto Machida (15-0) weighed in two-and-a-half pounds under the 205-pound light heavyweight limit Friday, a day before he’ll defend his titles from sixth-ranked “Shogun” Mauricio Rua (18-3) at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles Saturday.

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Fighters.com and UFC Middleweight Champion “Spider” Anderson Silva (25-4) will defend his titles from unranked “Phenom” Vitor Belfort (18-8) at UFC 108 in Las Vegas January 2.

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Friday the UFC confirmed that the contender matchup between Fighters.com’s seventh-ranked middleweight and former WEC champ Chael Sonnen (22-10-1) and UFC contender “Thunder” Yushin Okami (23-4) is not scheduled for the pay per view broadcast of UFC 104 in Los Angeles October 24.

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