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Anderson Silva is king of the middleweights

by Jeff Gorman

Anderson Silva erased all doubt that he is the world’s top middleweight fighter when he choked out Dan Henderson at UFC 82: Pride of a Champion.

Silva retained the UFC middleweight title and unified it with Henderson’s Pride 185-pound championship.

Henderson hung in there with Silva early. However, Silva used his skills as a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to take over on the mat, winning with a rear naked choke at 4:52.

Chris Leben moved closer to a shot at Silva with a convincing win over Alessio Sakara of Italy. Leben floored Sakara with a left and pounded his way to a TKO victory at 3:16.

In a battle of heavyweight contenders, Heath Herring won a split decision over Cheick Kongo of France. Kongo looked great at first, but he didn’t have a solid strategy to put Herring away. Herring recovered and controlled the pace on the mat in Rounds 2 and 3 to pick up the win.

Japanese welterweight Yushin Okami knocked out Evan Tanner with a knee strike at 3 minutes of Round 2.

Also, John Fitch won a unanimous decision over Chris Wilson in the middleweight opener; and Josh Koscheck defeated Dustin Hazelett on a TKO in Round 2.

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Posted in General on March 4th, 2008

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