For at least one day, one of the world’s top pound-for-pound fighters
was just like every MMA fan in the world: He was wondering who the UFC
would pick for him to fight next.
UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva found out on
Thursday, along with pretty much the rest of the MMA world, that title
challenger Vitor Belfort had been forced to withdraw from a planned UFC
112 bout due to a shoulder injury.
Then on Friday, Silva found out just hours before the UFC made its
official announcement that Demain Maia had agreed
to fill in. “The Spider” smiled, and his mind was immediately brought
back to the early days of the UFC.