It’s been the discussion at office water coolers for months now that the primary occasion for March’s UFC 197 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil could be a rematch between Brazilian middleweights Anderson”The Spider” Silva and”The Phenom” Vitor Belfort. Their first bout took place at UFC 126 almost five years ago, in which Silva succesfully defended his UFC middleweight title with a front-kick knockout of Belfort, finally recording arguably the most used highlight in UFC history. The news of the rematch gets fight fans giddy with excitement. So much so that it will become easy to block their current legal troubles. Silva last saw action 10 weeks back, where he conquered Nick Diaz via unanimous decision on the judges’ scorecards. The result of this five round main event bout was later turned into a No Competition, when the former UFC middleweight champion tested positive for getting drostanolone and androsterone within his or her system. Having served his suspension”The Spider” is prepared to create his return to the Octagon and saying is he’s found himself a struggle. This rematch will come after a rubbermatch for Belfort, who’s coming from a first round knockout of Dan Henderson, which took place only weeks ago at UFC Fight Night 77 at Brazil. It was an impressive way for”The Phenom” to return to the win column after a failed bid at present winner Chris Weidman and his golden, and with another impressive victory over”The Spider” in this rematch, he would certainly make a case to get a rematch with the winner of UFC 194’s Weidman vs Rockhold. The rumored UFC 197 major event is talked about, largely in part because of UFC President Dana White acknowledging that Silva vs Belfort II is the next fight he wants to book for both veteran 185-pounders. The night’s co-headliner was supposed to be a middleweight match-up between Lyoto Machida and Michael Bisping, but that was demonstrated to not be the case when the Michael Bisping vs Gegard Mousasi match-up was announced earlier this week. Both will go to war in presumably the main event for February’s UFC Fight Night 83 at Bisping’s garden of London. Brazilian fighters who are not currently reserved for fights we could see about the UFC 197 fight card are Thomas de Almeida, Glover Teixeira, Iuri Alcantara, Thales Leites, Rani Yahya, Alan Patrick, Kevin Souza, Leandro Silva, Hacran Dias, John Lineker, Valmir Lazaro, Michel Prazeres, Erick Silva, Bigfoot Silva, Thiago Tavares, Godofredo Pepey, Roan Carneiro, Pedro Munhoz and Thiago Alves.
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