He deserves a shot at the title, not a shot at the Spider

While the UFC didn't do right by Henderson promising him with a shot after shot at Silva only to break their promise each time. What they did wrong was the promising itself not the fact that they didn't give him the title shot.



Not that he is not the most middleweight deserving a title shot, he is (confused? it confused me for a second when I read it too). But you see, Silva (specially after his fight with Griffin) has tons of great potential match-ups and only three fights left in his contract (one of them already wasted booked with Vitor Belfort at UFC 108 ). A bout with Henderson certainly isn't one of those great match-ups (neither a bout with Belfort for that matter but at least it is Belfort's first shot).

I say Henderson should wait for Silva to vacate his title or retire and then fight for the title. He already knocked out a Silva, he doesn't have to knockout all the people in the world named Silva.