After more than nine years with the promotion, Rich Franklin seems comfortable with the legacy he will one day leave behind in the UFC.
Apart from having a middleweight title on his resume, Franklin now has settled into a role as a company man – the guy president Dana White and matchmaker Joe Silva can count on to step up to rescue a card.
Franklin finds himself in that position again on Saturday when he meets Wanderlei Silva at UFC 147 in Silva’s home country of Brazil.