Former UFC fighter, who suffered same injury, has advice for Silva
In his last UFC bout in 2008, Corey Hill suffered the same traumatic as Anderson Silva, a broken tibia and…
In his last UFC bout in 2008, Corey Hill suffered the same traumatic as Anderson Silva, a broken tibia and fibia from a checked leg kick. As such, he is maybe the only person who knows exactly the pain Silva went through and what the rehab process could be like. Silva was only the second person in UFC history to suffer the injury, Hill was the first, and so fans of the sport and media alike thought of HIll went it happened and MMAJunkie reached out to Hill for comments:
I couldn’t wish that on anybody, friend or foe, said Hill, who first stepped onto the national stage as a cast member on the fifth season of the UFC’s long-running reality series, The Ultimate Fighter.
Since then, there have been more phone calls, all of them asking for his reaction to Silva’s injury, which aired Dec. 28 on pay-per-view at the UFC’s annual year-end event. Not surprisingly, it’s brought up a lot of old memories.
Some good, but obviously a lot of bad, Hill said. The pain associated with any compound fracture is something to deal with in and of itself, (as are) some of the struggles my family endured during that time. We all kind of reflected and found some bright points.
The biggest thing that he’s going to face is the aspect of, we’re human warriors and gladiators, so to speak – we make our living getting in the cage and going to war, Hill said. So he’s going to have that question – ‘My body failed me. Is that a sign for me? Is that a sign for me to leave this alone?’ He’s going to have doubts about the whys.
The big thing with me was, ‘Why me, why now?’ Only God knows those answers.
As Silva recovers, Hill said, he could also be subject to fame’s cruel underbelly.
There’s a lot of people out there that are going to say, ‘We’re glad that happened to you,’ he said. He’s going to experience the insensitivity of people. I think a lot of people downplay how serious this is for him, or anybody on that magnitude of a stage – to be a main event, worldwide, and to have that happen. It sounds crazy, but he’s going to deal with some embarrassment.