Longtime manager Ed Soares is convinced that his client Anderson Silva is perfectly primed for his scheduled match-up against Nick Diaz next year at UFC 183.

In fact, Soares reckons that this is the bout that makes the most sense for both competitors. Considering they are both coming off 2 consecutive losses in their last two fights, it is reasonable way to get the winner back into title contention.

"Well I just think it's just a fight that makes sense," Soares told Submission Radio. "I mean, arguable these guys are two of the best boxers in Mixed Martial arts, they both wanted to fight Roy Jones Jr, you know they're both coming off two loses, they both have been out of the ring for over a year, so it's just a fight that makes sense.

While Soares is aware that the trash-talking culture is deeply ingrained in Diaz's psyche, he believes the Stockton native will take an entirely different approach against Silva.

"I think he's prepared to deal with that, but I honestly believe that Nick Diaz is going to take a different approach. I don't think Nick Diaz has anything personal against Anderson Silva. I think Nick Diaz looks at Anderson Silva as a true, real martial art challenge and he believes he's got what it takes to be able to fight him. "

Soares even went so far as to suggest that Diaz only trash talked as a defensive strategy to give himself an advantage against ambitious opponents.

"Most of the time Nick Diaz doesn't start off with the trash talking. It's normally somebody else that starts off with the trash talking and he kinda finishes it off. But Nick Diaz overall, I don't see him much as a guy that starts off talking trash."

Since Silva ruled over the 185lb. division for over six years, Soares suggested that his client is motivated to lift himself back to the summit of the middleweight mountain, and that if there is anyone capable of recovering from a broken tibia and fibula and then clawing his way back to championship gold, it is Silva.

"I think that's going to be the biggest motivation, just seeing Anderson back to what he once was. I believe that there got a point in Anderson's career where maybe subconsciously he forgot what it was like not to be champ, and I think now he's kinda looking up at that hill realizing that he's got some more challenges to conquer.

"I think he'll be back and he'll go as far as he wants to apply himself to. I think if anybody can come back from an injury like this and come back and put that title around his waist again, if anybody in the world can do it it's Anderson Silva. "