CONFIRMED: Winner of Weidman vs Machida will face Vitor Belfort

[The Great Cochrane]

After draining his body of TRT and all the licensing controversy, it was announced on Fox Sports 1 that Vitor Belfort is finally ready for his title shot and will face the winner of next Saturday's Middleweght Championship Main Event between Chris Weidman and Lyoto Machida.

The news broke from Vitor's manager and wife Joana Prado who spoke that Belfort would indeed fight the winner. Belfort was originally scheduled to challenge Weidman for the title at UFC 173, but the TRT ban forced Belfort out of the title bout and left him unlicensed in the state of Nevada.

After a failed bid to claim the Light Heavyweight Championship from Jon Jones at UFC 152, Belfort went back down to Middleweight where he spent all of 2013 knocking out Michael Bisping, Luke Rockhold, and become the first person to do so to Dan Henderson all via head kick.

Belfort then replaced Chael Sonnen in a match that was originally set to see Sonnen and longtime rival Wanderlei Silva after Silva ran from random testing. But Sonnen himself failed a drug test and was pulled from the event, and later retired.

Author: Alex Cochrane
Source: BJPenn.com

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I could see Machida causing problems for Vitor, but Vitor spells bad news for Chris Weidman!

 

[Swinny]

Interesting. I would have liked to see Vitor get a fight TRT-free first to see how he looks. It will be interesting to see what Vitor actually shows up.

 

[The Great Cochrane]

Interesting. I would have liked to see Vitor get a fight TRT-free first to see how he looks. It will be interesting to see what Vitor actually shows up.

The only person who said that the TRT had any effect in the fight was Michael Bisping, and we all know he talks too fucking much anyways.

Even without the TRT, Vitor still managed to ktfo of Yoshihiro Akiyama and beat Anthony Johnson who was 10 pounds heavier than him at the time of the weigh in. I don't see the TRT withdrawal being any issue whatsoever.

 

[Swinny]

The only person who said that the TRT had any effect in the fight was Michael Bisping, and we all know he talks too fucking much anyways.

Even without the TRT, Vitor still managed to ktfo of Yoshihiro Akiyama and beat Anthony Johnson who was 10 pounds heavier than him at the time of the weigh in. I don't see the TRT withdrawal being any issue whatsoever.

Yeah but Akiyama and a likely very depleted or sick Anthony Johnson if he was that far over aren't at the same level of all the guys he beat once he was on TRT. It has to have a change, it has to, it's just a matter of how much, there's no way it won't be a big adjustment for him.

 

[The Great Cochrane]

Yeah but Akiyama and a likely very depleted or sick Anthony Johnson if he was that far over aren't at the same level of all the guys he beat once he was on TRT. It has to have a change, it has to, it's just a matter of how much, there's no way it won't be a big adjustment for him.

So Luke Rockhold (who he beat) is a liar? He's a top contender, and he said that the TRT wouldn't have had any effect.

 

[Swinny]

So Luke Rockhold (who he beat) is a liar? He's a top contender, and he said that the TRT wouldn't have had any effect.

Based on what though? Luke Rockhold didn't fight him pre and post TRT so what does he have to compare it to?

 

[The Great Cochrane]

Neither has anybody else.

I doubt it'll have any effect on his physique if he takes the right therapy. It'd be no different from somebody taking a steroid cycle and doing post-steroid therapy.