Besides the already mentioned reasons I'm going to throw another out there.
Silva wants no part of Rua because he knows he would lose. If Silva is willing to destroy a potential match with St. Pierre, a fighter over whom he would have a massive size advantage, then I see no indication he'd be willing to fight Rua a more dangerous opponents who's the same size as him.
Anderson is bigger than Shogun.
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