News that the EliteXC heavyweight champion Antonio Silva has tested positive for Boldenone, the same substance which Josh Barnett and more recently Stephan Bonnar have returned positive results on, comes as an incredible shock to me. It's a disappointing setback from a fan’s point of view. I’m very much of the opinion that current doping policies being employed by the athletic commissions are of a standard which are indeed acceptable and knowingly or not, if something is in the blood stream that shouldn’t be, the buck stops with the athletes themselves.

Now this particular issue really frustrates me as a fan; why has Kenny Florian been matched up with Joe Stevenson? It was made perfectly clear that the Florian versus Huerta fight was for the spot of number one contender to BJ Penn’s UFC lightweight title. I’m not saying that I don’t want to see BJ take on Georges St. Pierre for the second time, not at all, but I just don’t think the situation is fair to Florian. Stevenson should be nowhere near the title picture after being the victim of one of the most one sided beatings I have ever seen; BJ completely blew Stevenson away and we don’t need to see that match up again anytime soon – no one does. This begs the question of why Florian has been penciled in to take on Stevenson. I like Stevenson and I think he’s a great fighter, but I fully expect Florian to take this one. However, let’s say he doesn’t. Florian would be knocked right out the title picture, just like that – and after all that hard work to get his shot, we could end up seeing BJ versus Stevenson for the second time in just over a year. UFC matchmaker Joe Silva should really be looking at these instances when coming up with the matches. It was publicly acknowledged that Huerta/Florian was for the number one spot, now it appears that it wasn’t. For the record, I expect Florian to take this one. BJ versus “KenFlo” excites me just as much as BJ taking on “GSP”.