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UFC middleweight star Alan Belcher is still on the road to recovery from an eye injury that nearly ended his career, but with his condition rapidly improving, Belcher can see clearly into the future and his comeback fight, sometime in 2011.
The 26-year-old isn’t asking for anything easy. In fact, he wants to fight one of the sport’s all-time great warriors.
“I want to fight Wanderlei Silva,” told MMA Fighting. “And I think he needs to fight someone like me, a top young guy, to really stay in the mix,” he said. “He needs to do that to stay a legit fighter and not just a legend selling pay-per-views because he has a name. He has to fight me to stay up there.”