Axe to grind

If former UFC champ Vitor Belfort returns to the Octagon, and UFC president Dana White is working hard to make that happen, there’s one matchup I’d like to see first: Belfort vs. Wanderlei Silva.

Belfort TKO’ed the Axe Murderer in just 44 seconds during their first encounter at UFC Brazil in 1998, steamrolling him with punches that resulted in one of the most stunning losses in Silva’s storied career. Both fighters used to be 205-pounders who have dropped to 185, making a rematch a natural.

And it seems Silva is anxious for it. He recently told Sensei Sport TV that Belfort was seriously stressing out before their first fight: “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]. Sooner or later [the rematch] is going to happen. I’m ready to face anyone, including him.”

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