Akiyama next in line for Wanderlei Silva

UFC president Dana White has revealed that Yoshihiro Akiyama could be next in line for a fight with Wanderlei Silva.

Silva managed a unanimous decision win over Michael Bisping on Saturday.

“Wanderlei is sitting here with stitches in his chin and a black eye and everything else. He’s going to go home, relax, heal, and then we’ll talk to Wanderlei and see when he’s ready again. But Akiyama wants that fight really bad,” White told the post-fight press conference on Saturday.

Fighters Only Magazine claims the UFC could be interested in putting the fight on an event to be staged in Japan.