More than a decade after making his UFC debut, former middleweight champion Anderson Silva is witnessing a series of changes in the promotion.
After WME-IMG paid over four billion dollars to purchase the company from Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, the Brazilian star, who hasn't yet fought under the new owners, believes the UFC is going in a different direction.
"I think they just took a big risk because the face of the UFC was always Dana (White) and Lorenzo,” Silva said Thursday on Brazilian TV show Combate News. "When you don’t have Dana and Lorenzo, the good cop and the bad cop, it’s kind of up in the air.