Could Matt Lindland join the UFC?
Highly respected middleweight Matt Lindland has been in the news recently by stating that he has interest in fighting current champion Anderson Silva. However, UFC President Dana White is only lukewarm on the topic. “I’ve had some issues with Lindland in the past. I have talked to him, and they want to continue to talk,” said White, “I am still on the fence with Lindland. I want someone that wants to be a team player. I don’t need a promotion full of Tito’s (Ortiz).” White went on to extol the virtues of Lindland’s close friend and training partner, Dan Henderson, as well as Silva in comparison to Lindland. “I think Henderson is ten times the fighter that Matt Lindland is,” White said, “He is much more well-rounded, and if Silva does to Henderson what he’s being doing to everyone else? Wow, he will be the man.” What really made Clementi happy UFC welterweight Rich Clementi opened the UFC 79 pay-per-view with a big victory over heated rival Melvin Guillard. The two had a long-running wa
