Navigating December's Middleweight Maze

By the time August of 2012 rolled around, Anderson Silva had effectively cleaned out the UFC’s middleweight division. After winning the title in October of 2006, the Brazilian MMA icon successfully defended his crown 10 times, with only Chael Sonnen threatening his reign with a stellar effort in their first bout in 2010. In terms of marquee matchups, they were few and far between for Silva, with talk of a superfight with Georges St-Pierre garnering more attention than anything that would h