Silva Moves Up To 205 To Take On Griffin

Anderson Silva will move up in weight class to take on Forrest Griffin at UFC 101 in August in Philadelphia. Silva has defended his middleweight title 5 times in the UFC, not counting his non-title fight against Travis Lutter in 2007. Silva has won 9 consecutive fights in the UFC, to include as first round win over James Irvin in his Light heavyweight debut in July of last year. Now he’s moving back in to the light-heavyweight ranks for the moment to fight TUF season 1 winner and former LHW champ Forrest Griffin.

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BJ Penn moves back down to the lightweight ranks to defend his lightweight title against Kenny Florian, who beat Joe Stevenson in round 1 at UFC 91 to become the number 1 contender. Florian, also a TUF season 1 veteran has only 2 losses in the UFC. The first being at middleweight to Diego Sanchez in the TUF Finale. The second loss was to Sean Sherk in 2006. BJ Penn comes off of his upset loss in a controversial match against Georges St. Pierre.

So far these are the only two fights officially scheduled and announced by the UFC .