Hughes would like a shot at Anderson Silva

UFC welterweight star Matt Hughes has admitted he could move up to middleweight in order to get a shot at Brazilian fighter Anderson Silva.

Hughes has considered doing it once before in “The Ultimate Fighter 2”. Hughes’ friend Righ Franklin defeated Evan Tanner for the middleweight title, back in 2005. But if Tanner had won the fight he would have served as a coach on”TUF2” and would have fought Hughes at 185 pounds in a season-ending fight.

"When I was champion, I always thought about moving up, and actually I was going to do that before I did ‘The Ultimate Fighter 2′ if Evan Tanner would have beat Rich," Hughes said during this past Thursday’s UFC Fight Club Q&A in Columbus, Ohio.

"I would have bumped up to 185 to fight Evan Tanner for the show. That was the deal. The winner of Franklin and Tanner was going to be the other coach, and then us coaches would have fought again."

Hughes has admitted he still ponders moving up to 185 pounds, in order to get a shot at UFC’s middleweight champions Anderson Silva.

"I still would toy with the idea of moving up to 185 (pounds) to face Silva," Hughes told MMAJunkie.com. "But I’ve got to square away things in my weight class before I do that, though."

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