Dana White Names Anderson Silva’s Successor As The Pound-For-Pound King

Lyoto MachidaThe number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world argument usually comes down to two names—Anderson Silva and Fedor Emelianenko. But if you ask Dana White, it’s a joke for Fedor to even be considered. Anderson Silva is his pound-for-pound king and there’s plenty of Zuffa contracted fighters in line right behind him according to him, and except for the Fedor part, he’s right.

Liddell Moving To Heavyweight? To Fight Couture? At UFC 99? What About Anderson Silva?

Chuck Liddell vs Randy CoutureBig fights. Those seem to be the buzz words coming out of the UFC these days. Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture. Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn. Chuck Liddell vs. Anderson Silva. All big fights the UFC has put together recently, well, except the last one.

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Dana White Comments On Where The GSP-Penn Winner Will Land In The Pound-For-Pound Rankings

MDS of MMA Fanhouse found this video of White promoting the UFC 94 main event between GSP and BJ Penn. The question of where the winner will land in the pound-for-pound rankings is asked. Here was Dana’s response for those who don’t have time to watch the whole thing.

“I don’t think they change at all. Anderson Silva is far and above the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. The fighter who wins this fight between B.J. and St. Pierre is on their way. They’ve got to do a couple more big things in their career to challenge Anderson Silva, or something happens to Anderson. But Anderson Silva is way above pound-for-pound the best fighter.”

Part two after the jump.

The Major Marketing Push For Anderson Silva Didn’t Work

UFC 90 PosterThere’s arguably no other fighter that the UFC has marketed more aggressively than Anderson Silva in the past six months. It all started back in July when the UFC started to heavily promote Anderson as the number one pound-for-pound fighter on the planet, and kicked it off with a free card where Silva TKO’d James Irvin in the first round. Naturally, the assumption was that it would lure people in to buy a pay-per-view with Silva headlining.

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Never Surrender > Death Warrior

So apparently Death Warrior isn’t the only movie (if you want to call it that) that GSP, Anderson Silva, and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson are starring in together. There’s also this little gem, Never Surrender. And this one’s better. How do I know? Because Fightlinker told me so. It has more fighters!!! Yep, big names too—BJ Penn and Heath Herring! Excited yet? Wait till you read the synopsis.

Never Surrender is an erotically charged, controversial action-thriller set in the world of underground street fighting where an MMA fighter who has been drawn into the world by an erotic and sexy promoter, quickly realizes that there is no way out, other than death.

I have a question. You can go down to your local video store and find hundreds and hundreds of these awful movies you’ve never heard of before. None of them are good, at least not in that quality sort of way. Yet, they continue to get made in droves. I have to ask, does anyone actually watch such movies? Better yet, do these actually make money??? If any of you have any sort of insider knowledge, please share. It’s one of Hollywood’s mysteries I’m dying to solve.

UFC 94 Press Conference Video: GSP To Fight Silva If He Wins, Interest For Carano In The WEC (Update)

The press tour for the UFC 94 GSP vs. Penn II super fight kicked off earlier today in Canada. The inevitable question of whether or not the winner will fight Anderson Silva was asked. Dana White’s answer? YES!…sort of…but only if GSP wins. Penn, on the other hand, is just going to have to be satisfied with two belts if he pulls out the victory.

Back to GSP, White didn’t specify when the fight would happen, but the general presumption is that the fight would go down sometime in 2009. Hopefully the latter half, because there happens to be a welterweight wrecking machine patiently waiting in the wings. His name’s Thiago Alves. You may have heard of him.

Quick Update: Apparently, there were three more parts to the press conference. I’ve added them in the video player above. The topic of Gina Carano came up at one point and Dana said he willing to sign Gina Carano to fight for the WEC, which would be great, but I’m not sold that it’s going to happen, at least not anytime soon. First of all, Gina still has to be freed from her ProElite contract. Second of all, Gina’s already stated that she is going to go with the highest money offer, and I find it hard to believe the WEC is going to outbid Affliction. Zuffa is not going to get in a bidding war with an organization they believe is going to fold soon, so while we may see Gina in the WEC at some point, I highly doubt it’s going to be anytime soon. Unless of course, Affliction doesn’t want her anymore.

Props to MMA Rated for the find

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More Anderson Silva vs Chuck Liddell UFC 95 Talk

Chuck Liddell vs Anderson Silva Rumor

While UFC 95 has been officially announced for February 21 at the O2 Arena in London, England, there has yet to be an announcement for the main event. Early chatter pointed to Anderson Silva and Chuck Liddell appearing on the card, possibly against each other. However, that didn’t seem too likely considering a report that suggested Dana White wasn’t too thrilled about the idea, not to mention Silva hadn’t even heard about the rumor of his next opponent.

Playing Catch-Up

Anderson SilvaSince we’ve been out of action for a day and a half, there’s quite a few stories that we missed. It doesn’t look like anything major broke, so I’m just gonna do a run down of what we missed so we can get back on track.

UFC Headed Back To England For UFC 95 (Update III - Liddell-Silva)

UFC London 02 ArenaAs the talk for one UK UFC event winds down comes talk for another. According to a report at UK based website MMABay, the UFC plans on returning to England in February for what will presumably be UFC 95.

Hot on the heels of UFC 89 this weekend in Birmingham, Mmabay can EXCLUSIVELY reveal that the UFC are set to return to England in February 2009 for an event, likely to be UFC 95.

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