Star middleweight Anderson Silva bulks up to meet The Sandman

Star middleweight Anderson Silva bulks up to meet The Sandman By: Neil Davidson, THE CANADIAN PRESS UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva will be bigger and quite possibly better when he steps into the cage Saturday night against light-heavyweight James (The Sandman) Irvin, Looking for a challenge, the 185-pound mixed martial arts king agreed to move up to 205 pounds to face Irvin in a televised card (Spike TV, 9 p.m. ET) designed to take some of the spotlight away from Affliction's debut show the same night on pay-per-view from Anaheim, Calif. Silva (22-4) is 6-0 in the UFC and has never seen the third round. He is widely seen as the best pound-for-pound MMA fighter on the planet. The Brazilian is a long, lanky six-foot-two who normally walks around at 210 pounds, according to manager Ed Soares. In training for Irvin,... [read full story]