The Brazilian Anderson Silva is close to returning to the Octagon on January 31st. But before facing Nick Diaz In the main fight of UFC 183, Spider remembered the worst moment of his career. This Sunday (28), the broken leg suffered in the fight against Chris Weidman completes exactly one year and the former middleweight champion remembered the injury through social media.
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“Guys, today marks a year since I had the accident. I would like to thank everyone who was by my side and gave me strength,” Anderson wrote on his Instagram account. Afterwards he spoke about mistakes, evolution and thanked God.
“I believe, that… Errors are, in the end, foundations of truth. When we examine a man's errors, we know his character. With everything that happened to me, I learned that we should be grateful to God for not giving us everything we asked for, but rather what we needed to evolve. A Kiss in everyone’s hearts, Strength and honor”, he concluded.
Anderson Silva's injury
At 39, Anderson Silva has a professional record of 33 wins and six losses. Spider was UFC middleweight champion between 2006 and 2013, when, in July, he lost the belt after being knocked out by the challenger Chris Weidman. Six months later, in the rematch held at UFC 162, Anderson was once again defeated by Weidman, this time after fracturing his left leg in the second round. The Brazilian underwent surgery in which an intramedullary rod was inserted into his left tibia.
Even without fighting in a year, Spider remains in first place in the middleweight category and in eighth place in the weight-for-weight ranking, regardless of division.
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