When Life Gives You Lemons: Vitor Next Up For Silva

I guess we know who Tyson will be rooting for. 

The MMA world is still aghast of recent news of Chael Sonnen testing positive for elevated testosterone levels from steroids. The perennial trash talker had done the unthinkable during the fight with Anderson and nearly pulled off the upset. Come to find out, even with Chael beefed up on roids he still couldn't beat "The Spider". That is a testament to how good Silva really is as he was fighting Sonnen with a rib injury and wasn't 100% himself.

With the rematch between Sonnen and Silva now in the dumps thanks to Chael's "If you ain't cheatin, you ain't tryin" attitude the UFC was left to scramble for Ando's next opponent. The Middleweight contenders of the division were tied up in bouts themselves with Okami facing Belfort for the next shot. Thankfully when news broke that Belfort was injured and out of his number one contenders match with Okami, it was just a cover for him to pull out of the fight and into a bigger one with Silva.

This fight is one that fans have been clamoring for since Vitor signed with the UFC but because of Belfort's injuries has never happened. Thanks to Chael's misfortune that is no longer the case, this fight will be exciting and probably even more-so than the Sonnen fight was (Pre-Steroid allegations). Vitor has the power and hand speed to connect on Anderson and possibly knock him out and he is a big 185lb fighter. Vitor's weakness has always been his mental state, when he gets broken down in the ring he loses his confidence and edge. That has not shown to be the case since his move to Middleweight however, and it remains to be seen if it will stay that way.

Anderson is going to have his hands full with Vitor, but he won't have to worry about a wrestler this time out at least! On the feet I believe that Anderson will still come out on top in this fight, but Vitor has the tools to prove me wrong.