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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
The UFC got one step closer to booking potentially their biggest fight ever on Saturday night when Anderson Silva knocked out Vitor Belfort with a vicious straight kick to the jaw, and now the attention will turn to April 30 and UFC 129.
If Georges St. Pierre can defeat Jake Shields in Toronto, the UFC will move forward with a Georges St. Pierre vs. Anderson Silva mega-fight, and they'll look to book it this year. Their only problem is figuring out where to hold the event.
"The most difficult part of putting this together is going to be where we hold it," White said after the event. "I don't know."
A leading candidate for the host site would be the Rogers Centre in Toronto, where UFC 129 will take place, but White also revealed another possibility: Dallas' Cowboys Stadium.
"It makes sense that we'll do a stadium show," White said. "It totally makes sense. If there was ever a fight that we were going to do at Dallas Cowboys stadium, this would be the fight."
Penick's Analysis: The UFC absolutely will run a stadium show if St. Pierre gets past Shields. Even though a Silva knockout win shouldn't have been surprising on Saturday night, the way in which he did it made things a whole lot more interesting. St. Pierre still represents a significantly difficult fight for Silva, precisely because he won't be standing in front of him as an open target. St. Pierre will be looking to bring the fight to the ground and force Silva to fight his fight for five rounds, much like Chael Sonnen was able to do. That's what makes this so intriguing, because GSP is so good, and though he'll be smaller it may not be a huge difference or detriment to him. Now, only Jake Shields stands in the way of this fight happening. Though many expect GSP to win, Shields is still one hell of a road block to his coming to fruition, and it's going to come down to April 30.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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