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26/06/09 - Wanderlei expects Belfort rematch
Wanderlei Silva expects to be offered a rematch with Vitor Belfort if the UFC signs the Brazilian middleweight.
Silva - a Brazilian middleweight himself - fought Belfort at UFC Ultimate Brazil back in 1998. Belfort stopped him in 44 seconds with a lightning fast series of punches that ran Silva backwards across the Octagon.
“That sequence of punches... I don’t know whether that was technique or anxiety. Many people told me he was dying of fear to face me so that must have been anxiety [that drove him]," he told Brazil's Sensei Sport TV.
Like the rest of us, Silva has only heard rumours that the UFC is working on a deal with Belfort, something acknowledged by UFC president Dana White.
But he says he is open to fighting the opponent who most embarrassed him whenever the match becomes possible. "Sooner or later [the rematch] is going to happen. I’m ready to face anyone, including him.”
For now, Belfort is fighting for Affliction and will face Jorge Santiago for them on August 1st when Affliction stages its third MMA event, which will be headlined by Fedor Emelianenko vs. Josh Barnett.
FO Staff Brasil
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