För närvarande är Vitor Belfort inbokad i en returmatch mot Dan Henderson på UFC Fight Night 32, i november. Men den matchen var allt annat än en självklarhet. Från början så var UFC mer intresserade av att boka en match mot Belfort och Tim Kennedy. Men det var inte Belfort intresserad av, och enligt UFC:s VD Dana White så gör detta honom till en knepig person.
”Vitor Belfort is in a weird situation in the UFC because Vitor Belfort puts himself in weird situations,” säger White till media efter presskonferensen inför UFC 168. ”We had fights that we wanted to make for Vitor, and then Vitor has his own ideas of what Vitor wants to do. Vitor has been difficult, so it puts Vitor in a difficult position.
”We wanted to do him and Tim Kennedy. He didn’t want that fight. He didn’t feel that Tim Kennedy deserved to fight him, whatever his reasoning was. Vitor is difficult. We gotta see what happens with this fight with Vitor, and then we’ll figure out where Vitor is. Vitor might win this fight and then want to fight Cain Velasquez, for Christ’s sake. Who knows what Vitor wants to do?”
