Wanderlei Silva confirmed bout for UFC 110

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A rumored bout between Wanderlei Silva (32-10-1 MMA, 2-5 UFC) and Yoshihiro Akiyama (13-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) is apparently set for UFC 110, which takes place Feb. 21 at Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia.

According to Silva, the middleweight bout serves as the headline fight for the event, which takes place on a rare Sunday (with an apparent live Saturday broadcast in the U.S.).

As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) detailed earlier this week, Akiyama recently hinted about the Silva matchup during an appearance in Japan to promote the "UFC Undisputed" videogame. But the Japanese fighter only said the fight would take place sometime in February with no exact date.

Akiyama made his octagon debut with a razor-thin split-decision win over Alan Belcher at UFC 100 in July. The bout earned Akiyama, who hasn't lost since a March 2005 bout with Jerome LeBanner, the evening's $100,000 "Fight of the Night" award. He's now 12-0 (with two no-contests) over his past 14 fights.

Silva, fighting at middleweight after slimming down from 205 pounds, looks to snap a two-fight losing streak. The MMA legend is just 1-5 in his past six contests, which have included decision losses to former champ Rich Franklin and Chuck Liddell.

Who you got on The Axe Murderer vs. Sexyama?

Silva is an MMA legend, but he seems to be on the down swing of his career. I don't know much about the other guy, but I see Silva losing this one.

Sexyama is some multi-talented guy from Japan who does a whole lot of other shit other there.

His fight with Belchar was actually pretty good if you haven't watched it. Solid action and towards the end, Sexyama could only see out of 1 eye, so it was pretty to watch him still win with 1 eye

Silva is a fucking menace I see him taking this bout hands down.

^^Silva WAS a fucking menace

At 2-5, Silva's UFC career has been "Axe Murdered." It will probably be an entertaining fight, but I think that he will lose.