The UFC’s most promising import, Yoshihiro Akiyama who has fully recovered from an injury to his eye that required surgery after his “Fight of the Night” victory over Alan Belcher at UFC 100 has revealed his plans to train at Xtreme Couture MMA to Sherdog.com.

Akiyama will be travelling to Las Vegas in October to work on his striking with Shawn Tompkins. This will not be the first time this pair has worked together as Tompkins said “he first worked with the 2006 K-1 Hero’s tournament champion behind the scenes at UFC 97 last April in Montreal”.

The former coach of the Los Angeles Anacondas of the now defunct promotion International Fight League didn’t have the answer to who Akiyama’s next opponent would be. Fightburger.com has heard on the grape vine that a middle weight match up between Yoshihiro Akiyama and Wanderlei Silva is being considered.

Wanderlei Silva who is also recovering from surgery and is expected to return to the octagon in February 2010 and Fightburger.com has been the first to speculate that his return may coincide with the UFC’s first trip down under to Sydney, Australia. Other chatter doing the rounds about this potential fight indicate that it could take place at UFC 108 in January. With big name fighters expected already on the UFC 108 card, Wanderlei Silva vs Yoshihiro Akiyama would surely make this the most stacked UFC card in a long time.

Fightburger.com considers that this rumour may have some merit as Tompkins has worked with Wanderlei Silva previously and Akiyama could be training with Tompkins in preparation for the rumoured showdown.

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