Wanderlei Silva challenges Vitor Belfort: “Where are you running to?”

When UFC came to Brazil for the first time, in 1998, Wanderlei Silva debuted on the event, but was defeated by Vitor Belfort. After that fight, Wanderlei reached the top of the world on Pride, but never got his so dreamed rematch. With Vitor’s loss to Anderson Silva, on UFC 126, “The Axe Murderer” proposed the challenge, on a phone talk with TATAME. “And now, where are you running to?”, asked Wanderlei. “I’d give him the number one (on the line to fight me) easily, I’m challenging him … I want him”. It’s up to you, Dana White and Joe Silva.


http://www.tatame.com/2011/02/11/Wanderlei-Silva-challenges-Vitor-Belfort--Where-are-you-running-to

This fight has to be on the UFC Brazil card.

Is the Stann fight happening or not? UFC 130 is falling apart....


Hope Vitor-Wandi fight is on UFC 130, that will make up for Thiago-Rampage potentialy getting called off.

would be a great rematch but iv heard leben also wants belfort and wrandi lol like a fight merry go round.

FUCK LEBEN who the hell is he? hes shit! get belfort v wandi on now

Few hours after “The Axe Murderer” calling out Vitor Belfort in exclusive interview with TATAME, we spoke with “The Phenom”, who accepted the challenge and left the decision about the highly expected rematch in Dana White’s hands.

“Let's do it, brother. I accept it”, Vitor said, praising the fighter he defeated by TKO in UFC Brazil, in 1998. “He’s a great athlete, a great champion, and it would be a pleasure to fight him. It’d be a highly anticipated fight, very important for the sport.

“Whatever Dana (White) says I’ll do, I never chose opponents and I won’t do it now. But he made the challenge and I’m accepting it. I just don’t wanna wait for the UFC Rio to come back, I wanna fight first”, he added.

Will Brian Stann wait, and the UFC set the rematch between former UFC and Pride champions? It’s up to you now, Dana White.


http://www.tatame.com/2011/02/11/Exclusive--Vitor-Belfort-welcomes-rematch-against-Wanderlei-Silva

Get it made Dana!

Do you all hate Wanderlei???

I'd far rather watch Wanderlei v Belfort II than Wanderlei v Stann. I'm not overly convinced by Stann just yet, a win over Leben doesn't make you a contender.

I agree completely with Moose. Leben's win over Akiyama was heavily over hyped because he fought 2 weeks earlier, then because Stann beat Leben's suddenly everyone had him as a top 10 middleweight, I have the guy at top 20 at best. Make Silva V Belfort happen, there is a great story behind it, and that fight could main event a card, not just feature on the main card. Miguel Torres V Brad Pickett has just been announced for UFC 130, so that might be replacing Stann V Silva on the main card if Silva is still injured, then hopefully we get to see Silva V Belfort 2 !

Brian Stann V Jorge Santiago has just been announced for UFC 130, so maybe we might be seeing Silva V Belfort after all!

Yeah i can see Vitor-Wandi as co-main event at UFC 131 which is scheduled to be Brock-JDS.



They need to find an opponent for Phil Davis soon though, and my pick is Matyushenko or Bonnar.

i hope we see the old wrandi from pride and the explosivness from belfort then it would be a war.