Season Eight included featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light heavyweight tournaments. Palhares fought against former PRIDE Middleweight & Welterweight Champion Dan Henderson at UFC 88. LaMotta moved up to light heavyweight after losing his world middleweight title. Belfort was expected to face UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman at UFC 173. He also called for a boxing match against 42-year-old former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Former middleweight southpaw boxer Robbie Sims is Hagler's brother. Hopkins first became a world champion by winning the IBF middleweight title in 1995. The season aired on "Fox Sports 1" and featured middleweight and light heavyweight contestants. Bellator 185 marked the debut of heralded middleweight fighter Gegard Mousasi. His great uncle is former WBC middleweight champion Iran Barkley. Graziano fought three middleweight title bouts against Tony Zale. Diaz is also a professional boxer and fights in the Super Middleweight weight class. Nigel Benn moved up to super middleweight and became WBC champion. Bute retained his IBF Super Middleweight title. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion.