According to Vitor Belfort’s manager Fabiano Farah:
[Vitor] will not get a warm-up fight before he vies for the 185-pound belt.
“Vitor will be in (the best) absolute physical condition to return to the octagon and fight for the UFC title by November 2010,” Farah wrote today in an email.
If Silva wins at UFC 117, White recently told reporters, he will fight Belfort and then make a semi-permanent move to light heavyweight.