Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin Official; Thiago Silva Pulls Keith Jardine

That's a match up I didn't see coming, was praying that the rumours (spelt correctly for the Americans) were going to come to fruition. Now all we need is the Spider to turn up showing the form he had against Leben or Franklin...

Pretty fuckin exited about this. Hope its a war and Forrest doesn't go down early.

"White said he is working on signing another middleweight that he would not name who he said “would blow your mind.”"

Ok...let the speculation begin.

I have two guesses on who this could be: Cung Le or Jake Shields.

I know that Dana likes Cung Le 'cause i saw a video of Dana being interviewed about his take on different fighters and he said he was very impressed with Le.

Jake has a pretty good following (I'm a big fan) and I think he could step his game up even more in the UFC.

Shields fights at 170 lbs and Le at 185 lbs.

We'll see what happens.

Any other guesses?

By the way, Anderson Silva fighting Fedor is a crackheads pipe dream.

I'm really sick of all these UFC guys calling out Fedor. JUST STOP IT!

IT'S NEVER GONNA HAPPEN SO SHUT UP!

Ooooh...I feel like CAPS LOCK HAL.

....the power of the caps lock...aaaaaaah!

another geuss, Robbie Lawler

Vitor Belfort is a possibility, also somebody on MMA linker mentioned that he might be talking about Akiyama in which case this isn't news.

I hope it's Cung Le. I hope my left testicle it's Cung Le...

By the way, I'm a little upset that Kenny's titleshot is gonna be a co-mainer. Fuck that bullshit, the lightweight title has been around Bj's fat ass for a year now, I wouldn't be surprised if that fuck had tanlines from it. Now you're meaning to tell me the most deserved title shot ever doesn't hold enough weight to carry an entire card?

How about have them fight at UFC 100, so that card doesn't suck monkey balls. Fucktards.

OBI - I doubt that it would be Cung Le. He is too busy making movies now to be a full time fighter. As cool as it would be I just dont see him in the UFC anytime soon. However I could deff see Jake Shields since he would be a deff contender almost right away... I could also see Vitor Belfort coming back since he just killed Lindland and we all know how much Dana hates Matt. So I can see Dana giving Vitor a shot back for that alone. What about Gegard Mousasi??? Whats he doing these days?

cung le is making movies, mousasi is moving up to lt heavy. so I doubt its either one of them. I like Jake Shields but he's not mind-blowing. Now having Vitor back in the ufc would be awesome!!! So I pick Vitor out of pure selfishness!

☼☼☼ Fedor tapped out Aoki with an Achilles Lock after Aoki almost got kimura'd and took off his gi top ☼☼☼

Anyone else feel like Dana got this idea from a bunch of drunks at the Nascar race last weekend? I mean, we do have video of him drinking moonshine... I'm not complaining at all, by the way, in fact, ALL HAIL DRUNK DANA!!!

Cung Le and Jake Shields are both under contract. On top of that, Le doesn't want to fight anymore and Shields is only a MW because there's no WW competition for him in Strikeforce. He'd be a WW in the UFC. Lawler is also under contract. Mayhem has a problem with UFC management and will not sign an exclusive contract with them, which is the only kind of contract they have.

That leaves Belfort, who would blow no one's mind whatsoever, since he has already been in the UFC once as a colossal failure, and a number of guys in Japan who most American fans have never heard of.

I think it's Amir Sodollah.

This was the perfect fight to help headline Penn vs Florian. I hope Forrest can pull off the upset cause I know for damn sure that Florian isn't upsetting Penn! 2nd round TKO for Penn and then it's back to working on them Tan Lines hahaha

Calling it now: Griffin def. Silva, Florian def. Penn

that would be awesome if the middleweight that they're thinking of signing is the Dutch Destroyer that is Melvin Manoef

This will actually be an interesting fight. I can see Forrest being willing to trade and close with Silva, being willing to eat a few to get it on the ground.

I'd almost say that despite their standup glory (one for style, one for grit) this match ends on the ground.

Don't forget to take Dana with a grain of salt. Remember his earth-shattering superhyped announcement that the UFC was going to have action figures? Lets just say this is probably not going to be all that mindblowing...

What about Nick Diaz moving up? He's getting paid dirt anyways.

Why does everyone all of a sudden think Forrest can wrestle? Isn't that the worst aspect of his game?

Kadumel: Is that what happened in the 'Grappling Demonstration'?

I'm willing to bet it is Cung Le. Seriously.

More importantly, does this mean if T Silva beats Jardine he gets the next title shot? After all, Jardine's is Rashad's personal gate keeper, right?

another bum fight for Silva great.

This fight is a fucking joke.

mousasi would be the only middleweight that would 'blow my mind'. he's the only one who really presents an eminent threat to silva. shields, lawler, etc. are good, but if silva actually comes to fight then it's game over. the only problem is that mousasi doesn't want to fight middleweight anymore. hence, he vacated the mw belt at dream to move up at lhw and hw. by the way, fedor > spider silva

I hope to God it's Gegard Mousasi, dude is sick and I think would clean silvas clock along with ebveryone else in the division.