Here's the promotional video that UFC is using to advertise Saturday night's Anderson Silva-James Irvin fight on Spike:
The most interesting thing to me is that the announcer says Silva is "moving up from middleweight to fight the biggest names in the light heavyweight division" while images of Forrest Griffin, Rampage Jackson, Wanderlei Silva and Chuck Liddell appear on the screen.
If UFC is planning to pit Anderson Silva against those guys, that suggests that the long-term plan is to have Silva leave the middleweight division, where he's UFC champion, and move up to light heavyweight on a full-time basis.
Currently, the plan is for Silva to move back down to middleweight and defend his title at least a couple more times, but from the way UFC is promoting this fight, it sounds like the long-term plan is for Silva to add his formidable presence to the already stacked light heavyweight division.
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