{"id":125122,"date":"2015-01-08T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=125122"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:57:15","slug":"needed-silva-get-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/needed-silva-get-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva To Get Title Shot With Win Over Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/silva-white.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119607\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/silva-white.png\" alt=\"silva-white\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/silva-white.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/silva-white-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/silva-white-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former UFC middleweight champion, Anderson &#8220;The Spider&#8221; Silva is being set up for a third showdown against Chris Weidman.<\/p>\n<p>If the stars align&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UFC President Dana White announced the news during a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/waitin-transcript-dana-white-latest-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stint on FOX Sports 1, last night.<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/waitin-transcript-dana-white-latest-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Replay<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDiaz and Anderson Silva are fighting, and obviously if Anderson Silva wins that fight, and whether Vitor or Weidman win, then you have Anderson Silva versus either one of those guys,\u201d<\/em> White said.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson Silva faces Nick Diaz on pay-per-view, January 31, in the UFC 182 main event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion, Anderson &#8220;The Spider&#8221; Silva is being set up for a third showdown against Chris Weidman. If the stars align&#8230; UFC President Dana White announced the news during a stint on FOX Sports 1, last night.\u00a0(Replay) \u201cDiaz and Anderson Silva are fighting, and obviously if Anderson Silva wins that fight, and whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":119607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anderson Silva To Get Title Shot With Win Over Diaz | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middleweight champion, Anderson &quot;The Spider&quot; Silva is being set up for a third showdown against Chris Weidman. 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