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Anderson Silva will look to solidify his position as the best in the UFC when he fights James Irvin at UFC Fight Night 14. (AP Images)

For the UFC uninitiated, let's get it out of the way: Anderson Silva is probably the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world already.

Reputable MMA publications like Sherdog and Yahoo! Sports already have Silva atop their best "P4P" (shorthand for pound for pound - c'mon, try and keep up) lists; given his outright domination since coming to the UFC in 2006, it's hard to argue against his top billing.

So when Silva steps into the ring against former World Extreme Cagefighting heavyweight champ James "The Sandman" Irvin this Saturday at UFC Fight Night 14, he won't be looking to establish his position. He'll be looking to solidify it.

Not that he'll be admitting any of this - at least not on record, anyway.

"I don't think I am the best of the pound-for-pound like Dana White said. I don't think I am the best in my division. I will only be able to say that to you when I quit fighting," Silva told Sherdog's Gleidson Venga. "Then I will be able to say that I was good at that, that in my time I was in my best form, in my weight and in my division. It's just that nowadays, I'm not. I still have many things to do."

Tops on Silva's to-do list is take care of Irvin at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Irvin - perhaps best known for his record-setting knockout (eight seconds!) of Houston Alexander at the last UFC Fight Night - has a puncher's chance against Silva (-500) and the odds to prove it. Currently listed as a +350 underdog in the Bodog Sportsbook, Irvin comes in having won four of his last five fights, the lone blemish a TKO due to knee injury against Thiago Silva.

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