It has been the discussion at office water heaters for months now that the primary occasion for March’s UFC 197 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil may be a rematch between Brazilian middleweights Anderson”The Spider” Silva and”The Phenom” Vitor Belfort. Their first bout took place at UFC 126 nearly five years back, where 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 enthusiasm. So much so that it becomes simple to block out their recent legal issues. Silva last saw activity 10 weeks back, where he conquered Nick Diaz via unanimous decision on the judges’ scorecards. The result of this five circular main event bout was turned into a No Competition, when the former UFC middleweight champion tested positive for having drostanolone and androsterone in his or her system. Having served his suspension,”The Spider” is ready to make his return to the Octagon and word is he has found himself a fight. This rematch would come following a rubbermatch for Belfort, who is coming from a first round knockout of Dan Henderson, which happened only weeks ago at UFC Fight Night 77 in Brazil. This was an impressive way for”The Phenom” to go back to the win column following a failed bid in present winner Chris Weidman and his golden, and also another remarkable 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 main event is widely talked about, mostly in part due to UFC President Dana White admitting that Silva vs Belfort II is the next fight he wants to reserve for both veteran 185-pounders. The night’s co-headliner was supposed for a middleweight match-up involving 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. The two will go to war in presumably the principal event for February’s UFC Fight Night 83 in Bisping’s backyard of London. Brazilian fighters That Are not currently booked for fights that we could see on the UFC 197 battle 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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