Anderson Silva likely to remain sidelined with shoulder injury until 2012
Posted on September 12, 2011, 11:18 AM by Joey Santosus
UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva will reportedly be sidelined with a shoulder injury for the remainder of 2011.
The update came courtesy of Silva's manager, Ed Soares, who told MMAFighting.com that "The Spider" is unlikely to make his return until early 2012.
News of the champ's injury emerged shortly after his dismantling of Yushin Okami at UFC 134. According to Silva, the shoulder issue began about a month ahead of the bout, but after conferring with his physician he was given the green light to go ahead with the match-up.
"A month before the fight I injured my shoulder while training with Junior dos Santos and I was feeling a lot of pain in Rio," Silva revealed to Tatame. "I've talked to my doctors. I had an MRI and then I started feeling pains in my shoulder but the doctors let me go and said it was not that serious."
Soares was overall pleased with the prognosis, explaining that the camp initially feared that Silva could be forced to undergo surgery. While this no longer appears necessary, the Brazilian will require adequate time to properly heal and rehabilitate the shoulder.
In the meantime, his next title challenger has yet to be named, but is expected to be the winner of next month's UFC 136 co-main event between Chael Sonnen and Brian Stann.
Further Reading: Aura of Greatness: Pele, Ayrton Senna, Anderson Silva
Photo: Anderson Silva before his fight with Forrest Griffin during UFC 101 at the Wachovia Center on August 8, 2009, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Francis Specker
Comments
He was going to fight in either December or January anyway, so I don't understand the point of this article... The shoulder injury isn't what will sideline him "since surgery isn't needed", but he will be allowed to rest it since the Chael Stann is next month.
Not really a fan of Sonnen, but I think Part 2 needs to happen. Sonnen came the closest to finishing AS, the fighter I look up to the most. Nobody wants to see Brian Stann lose, so I'm kind of hoping Sonnen "eeks" by with one of those close, controversial type decisions. Just praying that next time , both fighters are healthy and "clean". That way we can see a fight where the outcome had nothing to do with rib injuries and TRT. No excuses this time!
The fact that he wasn't clean negates the wonderful performance he put on... I'd love to see Part 2 also, just can't analyze it from what happened in Part 1...
exactly
The G.O.A.T will be back even stronger.
G.O.A.T ??? Explain yourself !!!
If Anderson Silva is a Goat
then Chael Sonnen is the Wolf
He hurt his shoulder while falling from a goat he had in full mount.
At least thats what a drunk guy in a bar told me :)
Or it may mean Greatest Of All Time ...
With any luck this will leave him sidelined long enough to make one of the superfights happen!
Exactly what I was thinking - perhaps enough time will pass to allow GSP to beat Condit (if he can) and finally see GSP vs Silva.
Or Jones. Problem is both Jones and GSP have obvious fights to come. Jones still Rashad and Hendo on the horizon if he wins. GSP still has Diaz (assuming he can get past Penn)
No surprise there, Silva hasn't fought more than twice in one year since 2008. I just hope that GSP happens next year, Silva isn't get any younger.
That's O.K....
There are no MW fighters that can really challenge him now anyway(except maybe Sonnen)...., so he might as well take an extended vacation.
Maybe by 2012 the MW division will get their sh*t together and put together a legitimate challenger to Silva, the king of MMA.
He is probably ducking Jake Shields since he called Anderson out!
I hope "early in 2012" doesn't mean April.
I hope Anderson will do THIS to Bones Jones... this is the ultimate chicken dance... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYyUdHYJtyA&feature=related
jon jones is anderson silvas long lost son thats why they wont fight