Silva: ‘I want to retire at middleweight’

Forget light heavyweight, forget heavyweight, and especially forget welterweight; Anderson Silva says he wants to stick to middleweight.

The UFC’s 185-pound champion today said that he plans to retire in the 185-pound class and apparently is uninterested in fighting at light heavyweight (where he’s competed twice) or heavyweight (a class in which he’s previously expressed interest).

“I like my weight division that I fight in, and I’m prepared to stay in my weight division,” Silva today said through translator and manager, Ed Soares.

That answer came as a clarification to an earlier question. Asked whether he had grown bored in the middleweight division – where he’s set the record for most consecutive title defenses at six – Soares translated the previous quote.

Then, Silva interrupted the next question.

“Basically, what he said is that he said I didn’t translate it exactly, but he wants to retire fighting in his weight category,” Soares said.

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