It is a case of bad blood. “A long time I’ve wanted to fight him, and it will happen.” It will, as there is a huge audience for it in Brazil, but Silva’s epithet – the Axe Murderer – suffers somewhat from a blunt cutting edge in 2012. The desire and heart is there – the great fighting spirit – but Silva is not the fighter he was in any way during his glory years in the PRIDE fighting championship.