Sonnen To Face The Spider?

Newly crowned WEC middleweight (185 lbs) Chael Sonnen looks to enter the UFC and fight the current UFC champ Anderson "The Spider" Silva in his first bout.

That's a hard core welcome back to the world's top MMA promotion, since many consider Silva the top pound for pound fighter in all of MMA, much less the middleweight division. 

I think this quick "you're in the UFC, you're fighting for the UFC middleweight championship" illustrates the difficulty that the UFC is having in finding competitive matches for Silva.

Sonnen won the belt (sort of) last week at WEC 36 in a win against one of Anderson Silva's best friends, Paulo Filho in a unanimous decision.  I say sort of because Filho came in overweight forfeiting part of his purse and changing the fight from a 5 round x 5 minute championship match to a 3 round x 5 minute catchweight bout.  In an act of good sportsmanship, Filho announced he'd hand over the belt to Filho.

This will not be Sonnen's first fight in the UFC, as he fought at UFC 55 (loss by submission to Babalu Sobral), UFC Fight Night 4 (Unanimous decison win against Trevor Prangley), and a submission loss at UFC 60 to Jeremy Horn.

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