Should Paulo Filho and Anderson Silva Fight?
Should Paulo Filho and Anderson Silva Fight? Saturday October 11, 2008#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)Recently, World Extreme Cage Fighting (WEC) dropped their 185 and 205 pound divisions. It was an anticipated move, as UFC President Dana White has always indicated that the plan with the WEC was to focus on the lighter divisions. Since the UFC owns the WEC, this decision is likely to result in the transfer of several noteworthy fighters from the WEC to the UFC, one of which is middleweight Paulo Filho. Filho, an elite Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner, is presently ranked No. 2 in the division by MMAFighting.com behind current UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva. The recipe for a huge fight, right? Wrong. Actually, Filho and Silva are friends and training partners who have stated in the past they would not fight each other. In a world that once chastised Tito Ortiz for not taking on Chuck Li
