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After a stunning knockout of the former Light Heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin, The Spider was left with his arm raised victorious and a new goal in mind, the UFC Light Heavyweight crown.  An article on Yahoo Sports read,

With his arm wrapped around White’s shoulder, Soares leaned in and delivered a proposition. “Spider” Silva would move permanently to light heavyweight, even if it meant the unorthodox move of giving up his middleweight belt.

“I can do that,” White smiled, a bit stunned at the offer. “I like that. We can do that.”

Soares smiled and shook White’s hand. Silva had been accosted by a fan by then and couldn’t hear White, but it was presumably the news he was seeking. The man has such outrageous confidence in his abilities he’s willing to potentially toss away a championship he’s owned for almost three years to take a challenge outside his comfort zone.

“I’d let him,” White said later, sitting in his quiet dressing room. “We’d put [the middleweight title] up for grabs.”

Almost seems to tricky though, with the Middleweight title thrown astray, will the new interim middleweight champion be legitimate knowing Anderson Silva gave it away as a gift. Or could there be another relapse of the Heavyweight title when Couture left the UFC, then returned? Maybe Hendo will seal Silva’s fate and solidify the Middleweight division.