PRIDE middleweight champion Dan Henderson is set to battle Anderson Silva for the UFC middleweight championship on March 1 in Columbus, Ohio. He recently held an open training session and addressed a variety of topics including his highly anticipate match up with Anderson Silva, his move down to the middleweight division and much more. Here are the highlights of that conversation courtesy of The Orange County Registry.

Henderson on striking with Silva:

"I'm going in there hoping to knock him out. I'm not going to out-slick him on his feet, but I'm definitely going to land the harder shots."

Henderson on his wrestling skills vs. Silva's Jiu-Jitsu:

"I'm not nervous about his ground game at all. Wrestling-wise I feel I can put him on the ground whenever I want. Sometimes you can't finish them quite as easy on the ground, so I'm definitely going to stand on my feet with him and striking ... it will be a good mixture of mixed martial arts. It's not going to be just on the feet. It's not going to be just on the ground or in the clinch. It's going to go all over. I'm ready for a 25-minute fight against him. I'm hoping for a 25-second knockout."

Henderson on Silva being considered the top MMA fighter pound-for-pound in the world by a number of publications and Web sites:

"I think that's great. I've already said my piece about it. I think he is a tough guy and very skilled but I wouldn't consider him the top pound-for-pound fighter, just because I've seen more of his past than what the U.S. crowd has in the UFC. The guys he's fought in the UFC really compliment his style. I expected him to walk through most of those guys. He's very skilled on his feet. The guys he's fought aren't very good wrestlers."

Henderson on who is the top pound-for-pound fighter if it's not Silva:

"After this fight it will be me. But it's hard to say. I would argue against it being Fedor (Emelianenko) because he's a heavyweight. Heavyweights are tough to give that pound-for-pound ranking. He hasn't fought a top heavyweight for a while. So I don't know. It's those guys that have beaten guys a little bit heavier than them and beaten everybody at their weight as well. I would argue that Matt Lindland should be in there as well. He's gone up in weight and done well. There are a lot of guys. (Georges) St. Pierre is right up there and B.J. Penn."