Rashad vs Thiago Silva is also rumoured for this card. http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/9/25/1055366/anderson-silva-vs-vitor-belfort
That would be an awesome start to for the card. One fight is a guaranteed KO and the other one would be a back and forth striking battle.
If Hendo & Marqhuart end up on that card too that's the best UFC card I've ever seen hands down. Some how, some way, I'd find a means of selling sand to an Arab to pay for that card!!
Lets be honest MMA was a bit of a freak show before Vitor Belfort turned up, and no one really took it seriously. When Vitor Belfort turned up with striking legendary BJJ and outstanding athletic ability people started to pay attention. I like Machida and i thought he should have been champion last year and he would have been if he could speak English, The difference between Machida and Belfort is Belfort is a legend so its a better fight... well i think anyway.
That's really a strange opinion; MMA was probably more of a freak show aroud the time Vitor first started than the time a few years before that; Guys like Marco Ruas, the Gracies, Bas, Shamrock, Taktarov, and others were all much less freakshow than Vitor, who was steroided out of his mind.
Belfort on form is one dangerous man, one of my fav`s, Id probably root for him vs Silva but Id favour Silva, I like both guys tho so as long as we get a good fight, I wont be unhappy.